ShillsThis is an article I pulled off the newswire:
OSC to Hold Settlement Hearing for Ex-Agoracom Rep Purkis
Posted August 30, 2010 10:26AM PST
The Ontario Securities Commission is holding a hearing on Sept. 8 to possibly approve a settlement with Scott Purkis, a former employee of investor relations firm Agoracom.
The OSC has accused Agoracom of ordering employees to anonymously promote small-cap stocks the company owned shares in on its own chat sites to inflate the stocks' value.
Purkis was a business development representative for Agoracom from 2006 until January 2010.
The OSC has accused Purkis of participating in the anonymous pump and dump as well as profiting from insider trading on at least eight occasions when he possessed unpublished press releases that contained information he then traded on. The OSC alleges that Purkis picked up C$9,431 ($8,931) in profits off the privileged trades.
The OSC has charged company founder George Tsiolis with hatching the scheme in which employees were given 670 fake names in order to drive the value of stocks. Tsiolis has denied the charges.
The odds are pretty good there are paid shills on this board. If you had to pick, who would you say is a paid shill?
I am a little suspicious of the names that you can't see the history on.