CyberHype 101

Written by William Cate


CyberHype 101 By William Cate Published February 2001 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]

Hire 2-3 Boiler room salesmen. Former stock brokers, who have lost their license, are best. Your cyber-hypsters can each register as scores of phony stock investors at each Internet Stock Chat Board (SCB), like Raging Bull or Silicon Investor. There are over 200 SCBs. You'll need to spend about $60,000-$100,000 on your computer hardware and software. However, you've created over 1,000 investors to hype stocks.

The cyber-hypsters can control any stock board. They appear to be 10-20 or more enthusiastic stock investors. They claim to be long in that stock. They tellrepparttar Board thatrepparttar 112462 share price will go torepparttar 112463 moon. Critics ofrepparttar 112464 stock are called "Bashers." They are insulted, ridiculed and their issues are ignored. The cyber-hypsters post support messages to these attacks, using other names. It appears that every investor atrepparttar 112465 Board strongly favorsrepparttar 112466 stock. The critics soon shut up and move on. Ifrepparttar 112467 critics comments, againstrepparttar 112468 stock had merit,repparttar 112469 cyber-hypsters complain torepparttar 112470 Board Sponsor and haverepparttar 112471 critics posted comments removed.

Nowrepparttar 112472 goal is to gather pigeons torepparttar 112473 Pump & Dump (P&D) Board. This can be done with spam. It can be done with free online investment letters. It can be done as an adjunct to a traditional boiler room stock promotion. It can be done with a direct mailing. Whatrepparttar 112474 promoters want is to putrepparttar 112475 pigeon into an environment where they are told to buy, buy and buy more of whatever worthless stock is being pumped.

Getting pigeons torepparttar 112476 Board can be done by pooches. The Canadian word "pooch" refers to a pigeon who will helprepparttar 112477 hyster by bringing other pigeons torepparttar 112478 slaughter. The pooch supplies friends, family, and business associates as buyers ofrepparttar 112479 stock. A "pigeon" is anyone who puts their hard earned money into a stock scam.

It can be done by movingrepparttar 112480 pigeons from one Board to another Board. There are cyber-hypsters who post on all Boards spam that encouragesrepparttar 112481 pigeons to subscribe to a free newsletter, visit their website or visit another Board.

True Cost of Everything

Written by Paula Langguth Ryan


Henry David Thoreau once said that “the cost of a thing isrepparttar amount of what I call “life” which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or inrepparttar 112461 long run.”

Most of us are putting off things this month that will wind up costing you more inrepparttar 112462 long run, in time, energy, missed opportunities.

Maybe you’re putting off paying anything on your debts because you’re afraid to tell creditors how much you can afford to pay them each month, because you’re afraid they won’t accept your small payment, afraid they will try and garnish your wages, or a hundred other reasons. Your true cost inrepparttar 112463 long run may be that you wind up with a stress-related health condition from dodging creditor phone calls, or you wind up ruining your credit for years.

Maybe you’re putting off telling someone you love how you truly feel about them because you’re afraid they don’t feelrepparttar 112464 same about you, won’t want to take a chance on love again, or a hundred other reasons. The true cost may be that you wind up spendingrepparttar 112465 rest of your life withoutrepparttar 112466 person you truly love, pining away for “what might have been” or “what wasn’t said.” It’s likerepparttar 112467 country song “It’s a Little Too Late.”

Or maybe what you’re putting off doesn’t seem so life-altering. Maybe you’re putting off having your car serviced, fixing a small leak inrepparttar 112468 gutters, ironingrepparttar 112469 clothes you’ll need for work next week, cleaning outrepparttar 112470 fridge, sorting through your tax papers, making a phone call, and so on.

Make a quick list of 4 things you’re putting off doing, because you currently feel you lack enough time, energy, money or knowledge to take care of them. Then write downrepparttar 112471 true cost of what they may mean. Doesrepparttar 112472 cost of having your car towed at an inconvenient time, coordinating rides with others and paying for unexpected repairs outweighrepparttar 112473 cost of having your oil changed this month?

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