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The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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For comedic gold visit http://investor.neuromama.com/

Gold for sure. http://investor.neuromama.com/uploads/2/4/6/9/24695823/impor...

> What can you tell to PREDATORS to have them to STOP DEFRAUD INVESTOR.... or to prevent them from starting to defraud them? The only thing that will work .... that they will GET LIFETIME SENTENCE FOR DEFRAUDING INVESTORS ... because PREDATORS v. INVESTORS is the same thing as MIKE TYSON v. 5 YEAR OLDS.

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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This makes no sense...OTC stocks are almost never bigger than a billion dollars. This used to be at $28 in 2012, which meant is was still worth over $20 billion but the SEC didn;t notice then. No information about this company. not even a wiki page. I think the $35 billion may be a typo and it's only $35 million. There is something missing in the reporting. Maybe it traded at a penny and went to $55 ,maybe it wound b…

There were strange things going on with the numbers of shares outstanding in 2013, I wouldn't jump to conclusions about historical prices/market-caps without double checking.

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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Their YouTube videos are all amazing. Here's one particularly fun transition: https://youtu.be/g66rO79QL9w?t=9m34s Stick with it for a few minutes and you can listen to him describe heavy ion fusion in terms of an "angel the size of Los Angeles that runs off nuclear power" while inexplicable jet-skiing videos play in the background. Edit: Eight minutes later and water sports are still playing behind him. He's talking…

whoa, this one has their copy running over video of someone plummeting in an aerial silk accident. You can even hear people shouting "Call 911!" over the dubstep soundtrack. This is so bizarre! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1rbxisJGJ4

FYI: None of the music heard in that video is "dubstep".

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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If anyone wants the real story, let me know. I know exactly what this group is into.

Would you be this Kasian Franks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasian_Franks

Page was deleted today, but archived back in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101028085300/http://en.wikiped...

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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(Sorry bout this folks - just trying to wrap my head around it) What we seem to know and the unanswered questions: - this seems to be an atrociously bad startup (their "search engine" proxies Google but can be easily tripped) - it seems to have been a genuine IPO (2000???) that then failed (see search engine) and yet the outstanding shares trade OTC (between large institutions privately - a very common method) - the…

They didn't take it as a naked short, that's no longer allowed: they had to borrow to short, and the borrowing was called in.

Presumably they couldn't find someone to write the call option at a reasonable price. Which makes sense for a volatile thinly traded stock.

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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Gold for sure. http://investor.neuromama.com/uploads/2/4/6/9/24695823/impor...

> NeuroMama.com is a large online platform, kind of like a large plaza, which has everything you need, and if you will start using NeuroMama, you don't need any other sites. > NeuroMama.com is the best in the world Search Engine and Social Network, researched, designed, developed and implemented based on Neural Technology and artificial intelligence ..... Developed by the best International team of mathematicians, an…

Finally! The dream that was Zombo.com has been realized!

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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This sounds pretty amazing but I can't figure out bindings for all the pronouns. Who are the short sellers? Who are the brokers? are they complicit? Is one of them acting as the market maker for the stock? When the con is exploded and the money gets paid back, where did it come from? The short sellers? the brokers? thin air?

Haha yeah the pronouns are not the clearest in this. Let me try: Let's set up three parties to this scam: 1. The Scammers - these people start the company 2. The Short Sellers - these are the "smart money" who uncover some fictitious/sketchy company and want to profit 3. Brokers - these are the intermediaries through which both The Scammers and The Short Sellers trade First, The Scammers set up the company and take i…

And why is this scheme illegal? Isn't it Short Sellers' fault that they have borrowed shares without reading the conditions properly? They could just buy them.

It looks like a casino where you are allowed only to lose, not a free market where you can trade however you like. Once you find a profitable scheme you go to jail.

Re: The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

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https://neuromama.com/get/web/WTF I am entirely unsure how this search engine works.

It's a PHP application proxying Google search results based on the errors and results.

That is a MVP.
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