Eternal Image Inc (fka ETNLQ)

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thats irrelevant, we have just enjoyed arguing with you guys over ETNL for the past several years. This stock always seemed to have a chance but evidently never did. People were taken for a ride, don't blame people for having hope in their invested dollars, its not a sin to wish the best for your money Change Man..Besides this isn't our first rodeo. Things aren't always what they seem and people aren't always who they seem. Don't Assume too much...You could be chatting with a Federal Officer and not even know it or you could just be talking to a plummer. Either way both have abilities to clear the pipes..

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/internet/

"Pump-and-Dump" Schemes. These schemes typically disseminate false and fraudulent information in an effort to cause dramatic price increases in thinly traded stocks or stocks of shell companies (the "pump"), then immediately sell off their holdings of those stocks (the "dump") to realize substantial profits before the stock price falls back to its usual low level. Any other buyers of the stock who are unaware of the falsity of the information become victims of the scheme once the price falls.

Short-Selling "Scalping") Schemes. These schemes take a similar approach, by disseminating false or fraudulent information in an effort to cause price decreases in a particular company's stock.

Other investment schemes involve direct solicitation of prospective investors through "cold calls" (i.e., calls to people whom the fraud scheme has not previously contacted) or Internet or phone contacts based on lists of people who previously were previously contacted by fraud schemes. These include schemes that simply fail to invest the investors’ money as promised, as well as "Ponzi" schemes (i.e., schemes that recruit multiple would-be investors, but use a portion of the funds received from later investors to pay "dividends" to earlier investors to enhance the appearance of the scheme"s legitimacy).
•What Are The Costs of Mass-Marketing Fraud?

There is no single study that has definitively measured the direct financial losses associated with mass-marketing fraud in the United States or worldwide. Several sources, however, have generated data indicating that the order of magnitude of such financial losses worldwide can be estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. One 2006 survey by the United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading determined that 6.5 percent of United Kingdom adults (3.2 million people) fell victim each year to mass-marketing fraud schemes, at a cost of £3.5 billion (equivalent at that time to more than $6.8 billion). More recently, the Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that in 2009, it received a record number of complaints (336,655) about online fraud in which the reported fraud losses totaled a record $559.7 million.

But direct financial losses are only part of the story. Many victims of mass-marketing fraud who have lost substantial amounts of money, sometimes even their life savings, report feelings of substantial depression and embarrassment once they realize that their money will never be repaid. Some victims, who suffered more substantial losses, have even contemplated, attempted, or committed suicide. Finally, in certain cases foreign-based mass-marketing fraud schemes have resorted to kidnaping victims who have been persuaded to travel abroad, to ensure that they obtain as much money as possible from certain victims and their families.
•What Is The Department of Justice Doing About Mass-Marketing Fraud?

As the central agency for enforcement of federal laws, the Department of Justice aggressively pursues mass-marketing fraud schemes, whether based in the United States or foreign countries, through investigation and prosecution. Here are just a few examples of significant mass-marketing fraud cases that the Department is prosecuting or has successfully prosecuted since the start of 2009: