They also warn: 12. I read on an internet chat room or website that a specific security has a large number of fails; are these sources reliable?
Investors should always be cautious that issuers, promoters, or shareholders may be seeking to stimulate buying interest by making false, misleading or unfounded statements in internet chat rooms or other such forums about alleged large naked short positions in some smaller issuers, particularly those trading on the OTCBB or Pink Sheets. Some individuals may encourage other investors to buy these issuers' securities by claiming that there will be an imminent "short squeeze," in which the alleged naked short sellers will be forced to cover open short positions at increasing prices. These claims in fact may be false. http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/keyregshoissues.htm
Please be careful.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln