DD Support Board and Research Team

[Brigham Youngster]

Elliott Dobbs is a real person. He resides in the UK and is some sort of actor/theatre type. How he got hooked up with Abellan, I don't know.

The first (to my knowledge) Dobbs (SMA)/Abellan backed promo pump was RAYS. Prior to that Abellan employed others to do his promotional work for him.

Does Dobbs actually write the promos? I don't think so as some of the e-mail spams are indicative of someone who is a fairly adept trader. I doubt Dobbs is. Abellan just needed a front man. Again as to how they became involved, I don't know. Perhaps Abellan is a patron of the arts or likes "pretty" young men.

GHLT was not a resources play but the spin was good. It was an actual (legit) and profitable business (installing GPS devices in/on government service vehicles to include police cruisers).

The reason (in my opinion) why resources plays manage to last longer and fleece the "investor" types into loading large and long is because they're easy to spin. Hire some rent-a-geologist, show them a few maps, mention tons of high grade ore or millions of barrels of sweet crude (this is the "next" Exxon or Conoco Phillips) and the retail crowd can't resist. Especially if they get one of those pump mailers. Many fall for this thinking it's the real deal.

If you look at the successful previous APS p&d's, the best were resources plays (NSRS and POTG come to mind). Of course you have to have "management" in on the play pumping out press releases and giving "interviews" to hired shills (PR firms).

nodummy is new to pumps and dumps. Not sure how/why he got involved but he's new to them (less than 2 years). Maybe he or a friend or family member got fleeced on one. That's how many who don't purport to trade them get involved, pissed off someone they are close to got fleeced or maybe they got fleeced once or twice themselves.

My interest in pumps and dumps is purely a bobby. I don't trade them. I don't like seeing guys like Abellan make $10 million plus gross a year off the backs of some high school educated (or less) naïve investor.