Replies to post #42554 on 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.

[janice shell]

Oh i always thought Dobbs was just mailer fake person and site was all the same no matter the pick

He is. The photo is of a young Englishman who is or was involved in a theatre group in the U.K. Manchester, if I recall correctly. The photo that's on all the "reports" was on the group's website, along with his name. But there was no email address for him. I wrote to the group's secretary, asking her if she could put me in touch with him, but she didn't write back.

I doubt he has any idea his name is being used.

Wonder if easier to sell, better BS news flow, or less chance of a halt that gives them the power ?

The first two, definitely. People get all goggly-eyed when they think about gold or oil and gas. And it's easy to throw around technical terms that sound impressive and meaningful. Most promo players, especially the newbies, don't know a thing about mineral exploration, and are ready to find almost any claims believable.