it is all a very incestuous business - the promoters and who supposedly pays them. many are affiliated companies. i.e. SmallCapFortune/Trinity Research/CFM http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=27894836 and then you have the Eric Van Nguyen group and all their third party Panamanian companies belonging to who knows who. With sites like Stockpromoters.com and Hotstocked - you can at least begin to group them into affiliated companies.