9 Red Flags

9 Red Flags to help spot message board Scammers

1/ Someone who hyper-posts on only one stock.

2/ Someone who uses multiple identities.

3/ Some who repeatedly attacks or belittles others on a stock's message boards.

4/ Someone who emerges as the stock's moderator, or even the leader of the discussion group on that stock.

5/ Someone, with a short history in their member profile, who suddenly shows up during a stock run-up, and appears to know "all about" the company.

6/ Someone who is nearly always the first to respond to company developments.

7/ Someone who continuously hints at upcoming news and unannounced contracts.

8/ Someone who hypes the company during the run-up and then "changes" his/her mind and begins attacking the company, its insiders and the project.

9/ Someone who goes out of their way to find bad news about the company and makes a "case" out of it.