I would think that pretend dividends and business dealings with an entity making buy recommendations on the company's stock would be the logical places to start.
"did you notice they put out a BIG PR on 11/22 claiming a large naked short position?"
They sure did. Here it is: " For some 6 months, the Company has been aware of illegal naked short positions and it has submitted stock audit findings and related documentation in the Company’s submission to the SEC. This audit was based on the certified stock and certificate count prepared by the Company’s Transfer Agent which recorded all stock positions by certificate number and by brokerage account as of September 30, 2010. This data was used as the base line and reference point for the Company’s internal audit. Comparison to the certified baseline data identified discrepancies in the trading and stock positions of 8000 Inc stock. What is of concern to the Company is that significant numbers of shares purchased were not recorded and could not be identified in the Transfer Agents certified records. All data at the certificate and account position level, together with the identified discrepancies and Company’s conclusions have been submitted to the SEC in full." http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/EIGH/news?id=24129&b=y
"You think they'll investigate that too?" I sure do. But for the record, the SEC doesn't like it when companies issue misleading press releases suggesting short positions that can't be verified. It's been done before. These three excerpts are all from the same complaint (US District Court, Delaware, Case No. 1:09-CV-361, highlights mine):
"In order to keep the price of the stock up while selling these shares, Dynkowski continued to engage in manipulative trading, and the company issued additional press releases. Indeed, at one point, Dynkowski instructed Brown to have the company issue a press release stating that the company had ordered a non-objecting beneficial owners (“NOBO”) list from its transfer agent. The purpose of the “NOBO press release” was to mislead investors into believing that the massive selling of GH3 stock (for which Dynkowski was responsible) was attributable to short sellers. GH3 issued the misleading NOBO press release on December 8, 2006, just as Dynkowski was dumping the shares from Canceli’s accounts."
"As in the prior pumps, Dynkowski timed the manipulative trading to coincide with company press releases. He personally wrote press releases for Asia Global during this cycle, including the “Shareholder Update” issued on November 8, 2006. That press release used the same misleading NOBO tactic that Dynkowski used for GH3 one month later, and it also claimed that “July 2006 profits were up 745% over the previous years [sic] July profits.”"
"D’Amaro arranged with Playstar’s CEO to have the company issue numerous touting or misleading press releases between November 8 and December 20, 2006, which coincided with Dynkowski’s manipulative trading and helped further boost the price of the company’s stock. Indeed, on November 10, 2006, Playstar used the same misleading NOBO press release tactic that Dynkowski had used days earlier for Asia Global and one month later for GH3. Playstar’s NOBO press release misleadingly suggested that “naked short selling” was responsible for an unexplained “large short position” in its stock. In reality, the alleged naked short selling was actually Dynkowski dumping the shares he had received from Playstar." http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2010/comp21463.pdf
The company asserts that it has provided the SEC with documents supporting their conclusion that there are "illegal naked short positions". Based on the above not only can it be expected that the SEC will investigate the issue, but they better hope that the SEC shares their conclusion.
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