When companies sell shares, there is a record of it...filings at least
Not always. Did you not see where Urban Casavant was selling shares of Casavant Mining to people in Canada out of his suitcase? Telling people to makes checks payable to either Urban or his son Wesley.
Those shares were never recorded by the T/A.
It happens quite often by penny stock scammers, especially when the company has no 15c211 and can dump into buying volume using offshore accounts.
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