I have it on good authority that we should add CDIV (a Monk's Den play, and therefore doubly infamous), VSPC, GRDO, KNDR, WTAR,and LVLV to the list of stock scams promoted and in some cases created by Hilbroy Advisory:
Every one of those stocks has the same pattern: a large spike followed by a precipitate decline.
Which given that they are all vehicles used by penny stock fraudsters, principally Jean François Amyot, to defraud retail investors, aided and abetted by voluminous promotional postings all over the <ahem> Internet from undisclosed agents of IAB, should not take us completely by surprise.
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Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken