A "Viral" Email To Distribute About Stock Counterfeiting By Bob O'Brien 11/14/05
I have been asked to create a "viral" email which can be used to raise awareness of the Naked Short Selling/Fail To Deliver crisis. A poster on the NFI message boards created a good model. I have taken the spirit of his email and used it to create my own. The art is in offering enough information to be credible and provide a basis for concern, but not overwhelm the reader. Hopefully I have struck the right balance. After reading some comments, I've created two revs - the short version and the longer version. Please send this to every person you know, and ask them to do the same:
Short Version:
Please immediately forward this email to everyone you know.
As you may have seen in this week's Time Magazine, Wall Street has been ripping off investors by selling them counterfeit shares of stock - and I'm mad as hell that it's been kept secret until now, and that the average shareholder has never heard of the practice.
You and I are being robbed daily by a well coordinated fraud, perpetrated by hedge funds and brokers, called naked short selling, or "failing to deliver". It's stolen hundreds of billions from investors, and is Wall Street's biggest dirty secret.
It's important that you forward this email NOW, so that we can get the word out, as much of the financial press won't cover this story. You can learn more at:
Editor's note. Thanks to Bob O'Brien at http://bobosrevenge.blogspot.com/ for putting this together. I would like to ask everyone....EVERYONE....to begin by sending this, or something in your own words, to Senator Richard Shelby, who sold us down the river when he cancelled a pending Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing on naked short selling and stock counterfeiting.
Call Senator Shelby at (202) 224-5744, or email him at senator@shelby.senate.gov
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