Sure Trace (SSTY)

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Yeah, it is/it was a scam. Back then i think i read where the money was in family members name and they moved to Canada to escape the US, (not sure now). But here's some old info...
Illegal Kickback Schemes:

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/miami/press-releases/2012/southern-district-of-florida-securities-and-investment-fraud-initiative-results-in-charges-against-15-individuals-in-12-separate-cases
U.S. vs. Michael Cimino and Joseph Repko, 12-2733-MJ-GARBER

Cimino, 59, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the director and chairman of the board for Sure Trace Security Corporation (SSTY), and Repko, 63, of Hobe Sound, Florida, SSTY’s chief financial officer and president, were arrested today on a criminal complaint charging them with conspiring to commit mail fraud by paying kickbacks to a pension fund fiduciary to induce the fiduciary to misappropriate money from a pension fund in order to buy restricted common stock at inflated prices. SSTY, a Utah corporation, was purportedly involved in the anti-counterfeiting technology business.

https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2007/comp20277.pdf