Category: Stocks

Ener-Core Inc (ENCR) gets a sizable stock promotion

I first received emails promoting Ener-Core (ENCR) on March 14th prior to the market open from FreshBrewedMediaNews.com..

 

Disclosed budget: $500,000

Promoter: Champlain Media LLC and Capital Gains Alert
Paying party: Alliance Financial Media Inc
Shares outstanding: 71,054,173
Previous closing price: $0.77
Market capitalization: $54 million

 

Below is a screenshot of http://www.encrnews.org/

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Excerpt from disclaimer:

CGA [Capital Gains Alert] has received ten thousand dollars for this and related marketing materials from Champlain Media LLC. Alliance Financial Media Inc. has agreed to pay five hundred thousand dollars to Champlain Media LLC …

Full disclaimer:

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[Edit 2014-4-29] Tobin Smith has joined the pump at http://www.encrupdate.com/ and the original pump page has been replaced with Tobin Smith.

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New disclaimer:

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Where in the world is John Babikian? Probably in the UAE

It is time for another John Babikian update. And as always we must ask, where in the world is he? Lebanon, UAE, and Russia are all possible. My current bet is the UAE (United Arab Emirates). I will explain why below.


It turns out that Babikian’s Seychelles shell company Middlebay Trade Ltd. had purchased a vineyard in The Dalles, Oregon. See coverage of this in The Oregonian and The Dalles Chronicle. The SEC obtained a writ of attachment for that vineyard and for Babikian’s houses in California so that those properties will not be sold. See the SEC’s complaint (pdf) against Babikian. Here is the SEC press release from March 13th about obtaining an asset freeze against Babikian.

SEC v. Babikian Doc 6 Filed 13 Mar 14 by scion_scion

By the way, follow Scion_scion on Scribd to see updates to the legal case against Babikian.

Today the SEC filed a detailed declaration (PDF) in seeking a temporary restraining order and asset freeze. This document (also shown below through Scribd) gives some details not previously disclosed. It also shows that the SEC has relied a lot on Babikian’s ex-wife’s lawsuits, which goes to show that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Also, this document explicitly links Robert Kalfayan to Babikian — something that has been known by penny stock researchers for years but with the SEC stating it the odds increase that he will be named in a suit soon. It is also quite possible that he or others are cooperating with the SEC. Kalfayan’s company is directly linked to paying for some Awesomepennystocks.com (APS) emails (see page 6 of the declaration).

Other interesting tidbits include the fact that Babikian acquired his ASWR shares directly from the company in a PIPE and deposited them at John Thomas Financial and from there he transferred the shares to an account at Frankfurter Bank (Brown Brothers Harriman was the US custodian of the shares). On the day that AWSR was pumped he sold a number of shares from that account and also transferred some shares to an account held at Apex Clearing and sold some from that account. (On a side note, John Thomas Financial collapsed after being investigated by FINRA and the SEC for its involvement with AWSR.)

Getting back to the question in the title of this blog post, I believe that Babikian is in the UAE because NetJets recently agreed to repurchase the fractional jet ownership interest of Vertical International Relief Fund (Babikian’s front charity – see info PDF) for substantially below market cost. And:

Babikian has requested that NetJets wire the proceeds to an account in the name of “Elementos Ltd.” at a financial institution in the United Arab Emirates named Emirates NBD [page 17 of document below]

SEC v. Babikian Doc 15 Filed 21 Mar 14 by scion_scion

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SEC Suspends trading in third pot stock and perennial scam Citadel EFT $CDFT

Smart people have been saying for well over half a year that the SEC should do something about Citadel EFT. The stock almost never traded though until the company put out a press release three weeks ago announcing that the company was getting into the marijuana business.

SEC suspension press release
SEC suspension order

I warned about CDFT multiple times:

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I shorted CDFT the day after the marijuana news came out and ended up getting squeezed badly. That is the problem with shorting scams, particularly in a bull market — the stock can go up a lot and squeeze you out before getting suspended by the SEC.

 

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Unlike with most of its suspensions, the SEC was quite detailed in its reasoning for the trading suspension of CDFT:

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Citadel because of questions that have been raised about the accuracy and adequacy of publicly disseminated information concerning, among other things, the company’s business operations and assets. In particular, there are questions regarding the accuracy, completeness, and validity of Citadel’s several recent press releases, Form 8-Ks, and other public statements since January 2014 relating to transactions involving standby letters of credit (“SBLC’s”), see Prime Bank Instrument Fraud, TreasuryDirect.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), http://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/statreg/fraud/fraud_primebank.htm (last visited Mar. 20, 2014) and Brazilian Letras Tesouro Nacional (“LTN’s”), see Frauds Related to Public Bonds, Tesouro Nacional (Brazil), https://www.tesouro.fazenda.gov.br/en/about-the-federal-publicdebt/ frauds-related-to-public-bonds (last visited Mar. 20, 2014). Citadel is a Wyoming corporation based in Oceanside, California. It is quoted on OTC Link under the symbol CDFT. This order was entered pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act).

The Brazilian bonds aren’t even the first fake bonds CDFT has been involved with: there were fake US bonds that they acquired last summer. Janice Shell’s expose of that led the company to threaten her and with a libel lawsuit. I love this quote from that PR:

Gary DeRoos, CEO, Citadel EFT, Inc., states, “The author, Janice Shell, who published batten falsehoods, undermines Citadel EFT, Inc.’s efforts to grow our company to our shareholders’ benefit. Our shareholders are quite perturbed with this website and its posting, and have been proactive in bringing attention to this matter. “

On a related note, George Sharp, the owner of Pumpsanddumps.com, sued CDFT and its CEO a year ago.

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American Heritage International $AHII hard mailer pump

I first received emails promoting American Heritage (AHII) on March 13th prior to the market open. As of yesterday people started reporting receiving hard mailers promoting AHII. See a scan of the front cover and disclaimer (pdf).

 

Disclosed budget: $1,643,756

Promoter: Rui Long International & NationalFutures.com
Paying party: Rui Long International
Shares outstanding: 99,000,000
Previous closing price: $1.56
Market capitalization: $154 million

 

Below is a screenshot of http://goldmanreport.com/
The content is identical at: http://bigchangeforbigtobacco.com/

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Excerpt from disclaimer:

NationalFutures.com received a twenty-five thousand dollar editorial fee

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Rui Long International Inc has paid or expects to pay upwards of [$1,643,756] as a total production budget

Full disclaimer:

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Disclaimer from hard mailer:

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SEC Suspends trading in three recent pump and dumps

Today the SEC suspended trading in Suburban Minerals Corp. (SUBB),  Global Earth Energy, Inc. (GLER), and Broadcast Live Digital Corp. (BFLD).

SUBB suspension release (pdf)
SUBB suspension order (pdf)

SUBB has been promoted since January 7th of this year by most of the promoters out there. It was suspended by the SEC because of

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in Suburban due to a lack of current and
accurate information concerning the securities of Suburban including questions regarding the
accuracy of publicly available information about the company’s operations.

The SEC acknowledges the assistance of the Alberta Securities Commission, Quebec Autorité
des Marchés Financiers, and the British Columbia Securities Commission in this matter.

That is of course the standard SEC boilerplate language, although the 2nd paragraph quoted above indicates that the Canadians alerted the SEC about the problems with SUBB.

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GLER suspension release (pdf)
GLER suspension order (pdf)

GLER was promoted back in May of 2013 and again in November 2013 by various promoters including VIPStockReports.com. The SEC was more specific in its language about why GLER was suspended:

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Global Earth because, among
other things, of questions regarding the accuracy and completeness of Global Earth’s
representations to investors and prospective investors in Global Earth’s public filings with the
Commission and Global Earth’s publicly-available press releases and other public statements. In
particular, there are questions regarding the accuracy and completeness of Global Earth’s public
assertions relating to its business transactions with Hawk Manufacturing Corp.

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BFLD suspension release (pdf)
BFLD suspension order (pdf)

BFLD was promoted all throughout 2013 and even through this morning, by many different promoters. This morning it was promoted by PennyPicks.net, BreakoutBulls.com, and InvestmentNewsalert.com.

The reasons given for the suspension of BFLD are the standard boilerplate language the SEC uses:

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in BFLD due to a lack of current and accurate
information concerning the securities of BFLD because of questions regarding the accuracy of
publicly available information about the company’s operations. BFLD’s ticker symbol is BFLD.

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Great East Energy $GASE pump and dump

Again, my apologies for this delayed posting. One of the earlier public (not in a paid service) mentions of the GASE pump was on Twitter (and I retweeted that) on February 1st:

 

Disclosed budget: $1,100,000
Promoter: Absolute Media Services / Frank’s Penny Stocks / Frank Baldoria
Paying party: Luxair Contracts Inc
Shares outstanding: 50,827,896
Previous closing price: $0.62
Market capitalization: $31 million

 

Below is a screenshot of the top of the GASEreport.com website.

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Other recent SEC trading suspensions

As I slowly work my way through my backlog of blog posts that I need to write there are three other recent SEC trading suspensions of note: OLIE, HSCO, and AMOG. Amogear (AMOG) is the simpler suspension so I address it first even though it came after the suspension of OLIE/HSCO.

AMOG suspension press release (pdf)
AMOG suspension order (pdf)

AMOG had trading suspended by the SEC on February 10th. The reason is shown below:

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Amogear because the company has recently been the subject of spam e-mails touting the company’s shares and because of potentially manipulative conduct in the trading of the company’s shares.

Oddly enough I did not receive any spam emails promoting AMOG and the first opt-in promotional emails that I received were sent the same morning it was suspended. The SEC must have been watching AMOG prior to that. As to Hi Score Corp (HSCO) and Olie Inc (OLIE), they appeared to be engaged in blatant fraud. I tweeted that back in late December, linking to Janice Shell’s excellent article on OLIE and HSCO at Pumpsanddumps.com.

Excellent article by Janice Shell on what appears to be blatant fraud at $HSCO and $OLIE http://t.co/reEH79G7e6 via @PUMPSandDUMPS — Michael Goode (@goodetrades) December 22, 2013

Below is the reason given by the SEC for the trading suspensions of OLIE and HSCO:

The Commission temporarily suspended trading in Olie and Hi Score due to a lack of current and accurate information about the companies. There are questions regarding the accuracy of publicly available information about both companies’ assets, acquisitions, business activities, control persons, securities offerings, and financing arrangements

OLIE / HSCO suspension press release (pdf)
OLIE / HSCO suspension order (pdf) Disclaimer: I have no position in any stocks mentioned and no relationship with any parties mentioned above. This blog has a terms of use that is incorporated by reference into this post; you can find all my disclaimers and disclosures there as well.

Imogo Mobile Technologies $IMTC pump & dump

Again, my apologies for this delayed posting. Luckily others on the internet have posted about the IMTC pump:

Promotion Stock Secrets post about IMTC hard mailer
Direct link to IMTC full mailer (pdf) from Promotion Stock Secrets
Penny Stock Realist article on IMTC on SeekingAlpha

The SeekingAlpha article goes into the promotion of IMTC by StockCastle, a notorious spam promoter. The most recent stock promoted by StockCastle was NVGC and that was suspended by the SEC. NVGC was also promoted via a hard mailer. IMTC is definitely at risk of a trading suspension.

Disclosed budget: $3,000,000
Promoter: Wall Street Revelator / Andy Carpenter
Paying party: Fenvo Enterprises Limited
Shares outstanding:  73,500,000
Previous closing price: $0.46
Market capitalization: $34 million

 

Below is a screenshot of the top of the IMTCreport.com website.

 

Excerpt from disclaimer:

The Wall Street Revelator and/or its publisher, Andrew Carpenter has received a total amount of ten thousand dollars in cash compensation to assist in the writing of this Advertisement, as well as potential future subscription and advertising revenues, the amount of which is not known at this time with respect to the publication of this Advertisement and future publications. Fenvo Enterprises Limited paid three million dollars to marketing vendors to pay for all the costs of creating and distributing this Advertisement, including printing and postage, in an effort to build investor and market awareness.

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The Konared $KRED pump started over a week ago

I apologize for the very late posting! At this point it is only posted for the record. There is an online promotion page at http://www.beverageinvestor.com/kredreport/

See the previous Promotion Stock Secrets post on the KRED pump and their post on the KRED hard mailers that people have received.

 

Disclosed budget: $2,300,000

Promoter: MarketFirst Media

Paying party: MarketFirst Media or related entities

Shares outstanding:  71,366,067
Previous closing price: $0.98
Market capitalization: $69 million

 

 

 

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One interesting facet of the KRED pump is that it appears that some person or persons has been trying to manipulate the stock by providing manipulative bid support with very large bids. See the screenshot below. No reasonable trader would submit a 700,000 share bid for a stock that has traded less than ten times that volume. If a trader wants to be a large position they buy slowly over time in small chunks. The only reason to display such a large bid, particularly when it is not the best bid, is to artificially support the price. I would like to thank the manipulators for using Arca for KRED so I don’t have to worry about a corrupt market maker suing me for libel for accusing them of manipulating an otc stock (there has been a market maker apparently supporting KRED too, though).

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Centor $CNTO gets a repump

Centor was first promoted back in May and it never got much volume. After a low-volume run-up over the last two months from $0.14 to over $1.00 it finally got repumped on Monday, with promotion emails linking to the website http://centorenergyreport.com

 

Disclosed budget: $500,000

Promoter: Absolute Media Services & The Myers Letter

Paying party: Code Inc

Shares outstanding:  72,135,000
Previous closing price: $1.10
Market capitalization: $79 million

As of the market close on 12/31/2013 the price of CNTO is $1.84, giving it a market capitalization of $132 million.

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Centor Energy (hereafter “CNTO”), the company featured in this issue, appears as paid advertising, paid by Code Inc. Absolute Media Services has received a total of $500,000 USD from its client Code Inc, the third party advertiser for this advertising in an effort to build investor awareness for Centor Energy.

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Inciti Inc., a corporation owned by an affiliate of Endorser, expects to receive up to a $7,500 fee for this advertising effort.

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