MONK / Monarchy Resources, Inc pump-and-dump spam

Another day, another pump-and-dump spam run, this time being sent to randomly generated email addresses promoting MONK (Monarchy Resources, Inc). Here are some examples:

Subject: Pick Of The Week... Do Not Miss Out This Time!
Make easy $15'000 Monday!!! Hello, want to receive $15'000 by
next Friday? You would receive lot more if you get this hot
stock on Monday. The stock symbol is: M_O N_K. It's Monarchy
Resources, Inc.. It sells under 48 cents, but it should
see $1'80 shortly! Purchase shares of M_O N_K on Aug, 19
below 48 cents and multiply your cash! It could be
awesome to get $15'000 by Friday. And it's very easy to
receive. On Monday, Aug 19, 2013 order 43'000 shares of M_O
N_K and get over $15'000 by Friday

Subject: Hot Investor News
Pocket your $17'000 now! Howdy, need to pocket $17'000 by this Saturday? You
will get lots more if you purchase this premium stock on Monday. The stock
symbol is: M_ONK. It's MONARCHY RESOURCES INC.. It sits below 42 cents,
but it should see $1'20 promptly! Purchase shares of M_ONK on Mon, Aug
19th, 2013 under 42 cents and multiply your investment. It will be
amazing to earn $17'000 by Saturday. And its very easy to get! On Aug, 19th
order 29'000 shares of M_ONK and receive over $17'000 by Saturday!!!

Subject: Walgreens News!!!
Make easy $12'000 now! Hello, ready to pocket $12'000 by next
Saturday? You would receive lots more if you order this
undervalued stock on Monday. The company symbol is: M O N K.
It's Monarchy Resources, Inc. It goes under 40 cents, but
it could settle $1.90 promptly! Get shares of M O N K on
Monday, Aug 19th, 2013 under 40 cents and quadruple your
investment. It can be amazing to earn $12'000 by Saturday. And
its very easy to do! On Aug, 19 trade 21'000 shares of M O N K
and get over $12'000 by Saturday.

Subject: Profile Alert
Earn fast $13'000 now! Hello, ready to pocket $13'000 by this Thursday?
You can make lot more if you get this new stock on Monday. The stock
symbol is: M_O N_K. Its MONARCHY RESOURCES, INC. It goes under 30
cents, but it should see $1.55 shortly! Get shares of M_O N_K on
Monday, Aug 19 under 30 cents and quadruple your portfolio. It
could be cool to make $13'000 by Thursday. And it's very easy to do! On
Mon, August 19th, 2013 buy 35'000 shares of M_O N_K and pocket over
$13'000 by Thursday!

The spam that I have seen appears to originate primarily from IP addresses in India.

So, what's up with MONK? The stock has only been trading since June and most of that time it has been at around the $1.00 level. At the beginning of August the price dropped to $0.40 and then $0.20 per share (dropping for one point to just $0.10), losing more than 75% of its value since launch (see the stock chart here).

On 16th August there was a flurry of activity as 209,400 shares were bought at around the $0.20 or somewhat under that. Usually this is the spammers taking up a position in the company that they are about to spam. On the next day (a Saturday) the pump-and-dump spam started. So far today about 450,000 shares have been traded, apparently giving the stock a bit of a bump as whoever has hired the spammers tries to cash out.

As with all pump-and-dump spams, the only people making money out of it are the scammers who run it. Any investor who tries to try to invest in these it likely to lose some or all of their investment. Avoid

BLDW "Building Turbines Corp" pump-and-dump spam

This illegal spam run almost definitely does not come from Building Turbines Corp (BLDW) but instead someone trying to game the system through a pump-and-dump scam.

There are lots of variations on the spam, but here are three examples:

Subject: This Stock is our New Wild Sub-Penny Pick!

Green Energy Company Signs Deal to Construct Rooftop Wind Turbines
for 90 Thousand Sq-Ft Stockroom. Building Turbines (PINKSHEETS:
BL_D_W) Concentrates on the Design and Construction of Patented
Roof Top Wind Turbines.

Current Price: .038
Short Term Target: .40
Company: Building Turbines Corp.
Date: August, 5th
Sym: BL_D_W

Renewable Power Corporation Wired To Soar Monday!

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Subject: Pay Attention To Detail

Austin Company Pens Contract to Provide Roof Wind Turbines for 90K
Sq-Ft Warehouse. Building Turbines Corp. (OTC PINK: B L_D_W)
Focuses on the Design and Construction of Patented Roof Top Wind
Turbines.

Long Term Target: $.95
Company Name: BUILDING TURBINES CORP
Trading Date: Monday, Aug 5, 2013
To buy: B L_D_W
Market: $.038

Ecological Power Business In Line To Ascend Next Week.

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Subject: It Could Make a Rally and Soar! (Huge News Out!)

Green Energy Corporation Clinches Contract to Construct Roof
Wind Turbines for 90,000 Square Foot Stockroom. BUILDING
TURBINES, CORP. (PINKS: BL_D W) Concentrates on the Design and
Manufacture of Patented Roof Top Wind Turbines.

Short Term Target: 0.20
Trade Date: Aug, 5th
Company: Building Turbines Corp.
Latest Pricing: .038
Traded as: BL_D W

Green Energy Business Equipped To Rise Monday!!!

BLDW stock isn't really valuable, losing 88.6% of its value since the company was floated in April 2011, and it has been bouncing around the two to four cent level since the beginning of 2013. But this isn't really about the real prospects of the company, this is a straightforward attempt to manipulate the system for profit.

In the past few days, someone has bought about 2.5 million shares in the company at about 4 cents, our past analysis would indicate that this is likely to be the spammer taking up positions.

The spammers may have targeted BLDW stock on their own initiative, but the recent HAIR spam run seems to be for another party. No matter, if you take the example of HAIR then any investors who had followed the spam's fake tips would have ended up losing about 90% of their investment. I'm not saying the BLDW is going to collapse, stay afloat or whatever.. but what I am saying is that you should simply ignore BLDW stock completely because this spam run is simply an attempt at market manipulation.

Pump and dump spam flogs a dead horse with Biostem U.S. Corporation (HAIR)

About a month-and-a-half ago I had a look at the pump-and-dump spam promoting Biostem U.S. Corporation (HAIR) when it was trading at around $0.30.

Surprisingly, the pump-and-dump spam is still ongoing which will make it nearly two months of spam on one single stock..

This Company Will Make an Impressive Recovery! It is the answer
to your portfolio troubles!

Date: August 1st
Long Term Target: .85
Per share price: .035
Ticker: HAI_R
Name: Biostem Corp.

You might want to sit down before reading this... Stocks To
Look At!

So, out of curiosity I schlepped across to look at their stock price and was slightly surprised to see that it has lost around 90% of its value since the spam run started. What happened? Well, on 19th July the stock price fell off a cliff when rather predictably Biostem announced that it was shutting up shop, and looking at news reports there seems to be little chance of recovery.

But now with shares bouncing along at around the 3 to 4 cents mark the pump-and-dump seems to be continuing, and since the collapse it appears that around 9.6 million shares have been traded, which is about 8.4% of the total equity. At today's prices those shares are worth about $336,000. A little over a year ago, on May 28th 2012, Biostem stock peaked at $439 per share, at close of business yesterday they were just 3.5 cents.. a 99.2% drop. Somebody has certainly taken a haircut on these stocks..

NOST (NOST.QB) / NSU Resources Inc Pump and Dump Spam

Over the weekend a pump-and-dump spam run started for NSU Resources Inc trading as NOST.QB. NSU Resources almost definitely have nothing to do with this spam run. Here are a few examples:

Subject: This Stock MOVED HARD


Rubber Stamp N OS_T!!! With A Profoundly Humble Market Float,
The Indicated Rare Earth Business Is In Line To Quintuple.
Suspect For Big Publication In A Minute.

Trading Date: Mon, July 15th, 2013
Target Price: .36
Symbol traded: N OS_T
Company: NSU Resources
Last trade: 0.0175

Stay tuned this could get real good!!! An Amazing Buying
Opportunity!

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Subject: This Stock Is The Hottest Stock In The Whole Market!

Check Out NO S_T! Amid An Seriously Humble Public Float, The Indicated Rare
Earth Company Is Equipped To Burst! Suspect For Big Dissemination In A
Minute.

Symbol to buy: NO S_T
Trading Date: Monday, July 15
Long Term Target: $0.37
Company: NSU Resources Inc
Closed Price: .0175

Huge Potential! Actual Gains Success and Pick for Tomorrow!!!

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Subject: They`ve got their rally caps on!

Rubber Stamp N_O_ST. Including An Very Modest Public Float, The
Aforementioned Rare Earth Corporation Is Ready To Pop. Presume For Greater
Divulgence In Due Time.

Trade Date: Monday, July 15
Latest Pricing: 0.0175
Stock Symbol: N_O_ST
Long Term Target Price: $.15
Company: NSU Resources, Corp.

Time to buy! Major play, coming tomorrow morning!

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Subject: Look for Another Push Higher

Take On NO_ST!!! Including An Ultra Inconsequential Market Float, The
Indicated Rare Earth Stock Is On Tap To Explode!!! Envisage For Larger
Publication In Due Time!

Name: NSU Resources Inc.
Trade: NO_ST
Closed Price: $0.0175
Long Term Target: $.10
Trading Date: Monday, July 15th, 2013

Urgent! You Must Read! My Huge Pick.

Indeed, the stock really did move a lot on Friday, going up from $0.0031 per share to $0.02 by the end of the day. But what actually happened?

The reason for the increase in the share price is simple to see. Between 1pm and 2pm on Friday nearly 5.5 million shares of stock were bought in a 30 minute period at $0.0031 (for a total of about $17,000), probably all by the same party. The usual trade level for this stock is usually zero or close to zero. After 2pm subsequent buying (probably by speculators) added about another 750,000 shares but pushed the share price up to about $0.02 at close, a 545% increase which would (on paper) have netted the spammers a profit of $90,000. Not bad for a day's work.

In August 2010, NOST shares peaked at $5.40 per share. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster since then. Mostly downwards, leaving NOST as a thinly traded penny stock which is exactly the sort of thing that pump and dump spammers like.

The last major pump and dump we saw (HAIR) ran for over a month, and we can expect to see NOST spam for a while yet as the spammer - and perhaps whoever employed them - try to offload worthless shares onto unsuspecting investors. Avoid.

HAIR / Biostem Pump and Dump rakes in the dollars

If like me you've been plagued with pump and dump spam messages for Biostem US Corp (stock ticker HAIR) for the past several days, you might be curious to know if this massive spam run is actually having any impact on the company's share price.

The stock spam started after the close of trading on Friday 7th June 2013 and has continued aggressively ever since. In parallel, the message boards for HAIR were spammed with some fairly obvious attempts to pump up the price, the following screenshot is from the Yahoo! message board.

If we look at a stock chart for Biostem, we can see that something raised the stock price from the $0.21 it had been stuck on for a while (after collapsing from about $1 a share in February) up to $0.36 on the close of business on 10th June, an increase of 71%, before settling at around $0.29 (a 38% increase).

As pointed out here, Biostem is a pretty awful looking stock where the CEO was recently arrested, accounts are overdue and the last reported financial position of the company was dire, so it looks like it is on its last legs. But crucially there seems to be no news of substance about the company, so we can assume that all the stock price movement is purely down to the pump and dump spam.

The usual volume of trade for Biotech (HAIR) stocks is pretty close to zero. From when the markets opened on Monday 10th June to the close of the market on Friday 14th June, over 2.2 million shares were traded when normally we would expect to see a few thousand if that.

There had been bursts of trading activity recently, but the most interesting was a period from 9th May for about 6 trading days when over 1.3 million shares were bought for no particular reason. After that was a period from 20th May when a further 270k shares were purchased, perhaps as speculators sniffed around the company.

We don't know who is behind the pump and dump spam run, but we assume that the spammers are the ones who bought the 1.3 million shares or so after the 9th May. If they manage to dump those shares at the peak they could have made over $200,000. But the spam run didn't stop there, and as of 15th June it is still going on. Why? Presumably because somebody still has shares in the company that they are still trying to offload. In total there are 114.2 million shares, and only 2.2 million (1.9%) of them were traded during that week.

The sad fact of the matter seems to be that pump and dump does seem to have a positive effect on this sort of thinly-traded low-value share price. But the thing is that the spammers have already taken out their positions in the target company, it is almost impossible for a normal investor to make any money out of this because as soon as the spamming starts, then the stock dumping starts as well.

Phytiva / XCHC pump-and-dump

This pump-and-dump spam (at least I assume that's what it is) caught my eye,

From:     Hugh Crouch [tacticallyf44@riceco.com]
Date:     4 February 2013 12:39
Subject:     RE: Targeting the global Cosmoceutical market

US leading biotech company is please to introduce a newly launched brand - a hybrid of a proven, existing product line that has been well-managed and conservatively-run for over a decade with a hemp-based product line, utilizing the unique and potent benefits of the plants. Revolutionary formulations target not just the symptom, but also the cause. The plant is the ideal basis for healing solutions and has been utilized for centuries, as skin responds extremely well to its properties.

Its newest Plant based Product lines that have identified over a dozen ailments that we believe that the products will be the superior choice on the market. These ailments include cancer, arthritis, influenza, HIV/ AIDS, PTSD and many more.

We are looking for leading beauty and health care investors. If you are dedicated to making difference in people”s lives, we need your help now more than ever before toprovide excellent and efficient medical and health care for our future researches.
 
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The email originates from 31.25.91.159 in the Islamic Republic of Iran, spamvertising a site at www.xn--80aakfmpm2afbm.xn--p1ai (yes, that's a valid international domain name) hosted on 111.123.180.11 in China. In all likelihood, Phytiva and its parent company The X-Change Corporation (stock ticker XCHC) are almost definitely nothing to do with this rather odd spam. Avoid.