Advice from the regulatory authority
Three years after scammed out of $ 360000 a broker in New York, Robert Morris, said it still wait for justice. Millennium Securities cold referred Morris in 1996 and announced investments for retirement ideas for Caramel, Calif., dentist, his wife and office workers. Although the first cries of brokerage firms at the New York Stock Exchange, places unlisted Cape micro-enterprises in the near future, Morris.
Morris said that in December 1996, it authorized the action of Millennium to purchase a stock market flotation would allow him no more than $ 150000 in a micro-cap companies. Instead, Morris said his broker and exceeded its price and shares borders sellant it with a commitment of $ 500000. Morris asked if the broker, he had worked with, he says, the man told him he had just set on fire.
Although following the Millennium dentist struck commitment down to $ 360000, Morris said he was forced to a second mortgage on his house to come, with $ 100000 or $ 260000, he lost fronted the Millennium. The brokerage then refused to sell the stock to Morris, after a request pending. Millennium was by its General Council to submit their comments on this story.
Experience has 64 years dentist deeply suspicious of the securities industry. He said he was afraid, broker in New York right now because he knows there is a subset of the shadows.
There is a lack of reliable information on many micro-cap companies, usually a market capitalization in the millions, and their record is generally very liquid - two conditions, have much room for fraud. Although the Cape of micro-enterprises are sometimes fraudulent schemes, which are often their stocks is manipulated without their collaboration.
“We have seen an upsurge of fraud in this area,” said Jerry Isenberg, an assistant director of principle with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud implementation of division. “We can take measures against companies, but these people are permanently in the new forms of jumping.”
On the substance of the problem: 90 years, bull market. Euphorique Some investors have simply forgotten to be sceptical about an offer that seems “too good to be true.”
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