To 49494 I cannot answer privately
This being said, HBRM was and still is a scam led by an old liar but nowadays these criminals can take money from naive people thinking they invest in a serious outfit.
Anyhow, anyone gambling on such sub penny stocks must get in early, trade a little till he ends up with free shares and then ride just in case there could be an honest business person sitting among a bunch of criminals.
I wasn't always able to go thru the whole process and therefore endedup holding the bag when the criminal went away with my few left over dollars.
In the case of HBRM I was in early and long enough to end up with a net profit and 1,000,000 (now 1,000) worthless shares (thanks to those whose money I walk away with.
Hard to believe that nowadays, regulators haven't found a way to throw criminals such as our old ... (whatever insult you want to imagine) in jail.
Personally I now still own a stock from such a scam (loosing money up to now) but (very exceptional) a very large shareholder took upon himself to go after the criminals in charge and won big. He now tries to use the proceeds of the favourable judgements to ressucitate otherwise dead shares. We shall see.
For now, I haven't yet seen any other opportunity to get in early, trade a bit, ...
