Stock Gumshoe

The Forever Battery newsletter teaser is back, still going strong … not unlike our friendly little Energizer Bunny, I suppose. I’ve seen quite a few emails on this one recently, and the ad is almost identical to the one I first saw back in early April.

It’s an ad for Untapped Wealth, and unlike some of their ads that we’ve seen in the past this doesn’t seem like it’s a paid stock promotion (as the ads touting Aussie Soles were a few months back). The fact that Tim Fields also sells his name to tout stocks like AUSE might make you question his editorial integrity as he touts this particular battery company, but that’s your call (my opinion is probably pretty clear from my article about Aussie Soles, linked here).

Some of the details are different, because the company is no longer on the verge of doing a demo of their new battery technology at a steakhouse (they already did that, and apparently it went well — and unfortunately, I don’t believe any free meat was dispensed). Other than that, I haven’t seen much in the way of “new” news from them, though they do spin out a press release or an investor presentation pretty much every week. But since the ad is otherwise virtually unchanged, I assume that we’re still dealing with tiny mPhase Technologies (XDSL, trades over the counter).

Oh, and the price has come down quite a bit from where it was at the height of the “public demo” hype and the runup from the initial newsletter ad barrage. So if you liked it at a dime, you just might love it at a nickel.

Here’s the link to that original writeup that includes much more detail, and dozens of useful comments from other readers — the Forever Nanobattery.

And for those of you in the US, I hope you enjoy a labor-free holiday weekend.

This ad comes to us from James DiGeorgia, who apparently ran a newsletter called 21st Century Investor and sold that service a while back — this ad is for a new service that he’s launching called SuperStock Investor. He’d like $79 from you for your charter subscription (though of course, it has a “value” of $197.50, if they do say so themselves).

And he’ll tell you that the special report he’s hawking with this teaser is itself worth $79 — must be a really lovely report, I imagine. It’s called “The Best Way to Profit From the BioPlastics Revolution.”

Maybe this will turn out to be a fabulous newsletter, maybe not — hard to say at this point. But you needn’t try the newsletter if you’re just interested in finding out the name of the company behind this “super material” — for that, you can count on your friendly neighborhood Stock Gumshoe.
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“Using this three-step “paycheck portfolio” plan… tap into an endless stream of income, for as long as you’ll need it… starting with as many as 75 checks, sent automatically to your account.”

Not bad, eh?

That’s the tease from Chris Mayer and the Capital and Crisis newsletter from Agora (which is not to be confused with the Crisis Trader newsletter from Taipan, which likes to trade on political instability in the third world — Capital and Crisis is more of a “Jack of all trades” newsletter, as far as I can tell).

And it has all the hallmarks of a well-copywritten ad for an investment newsletter … it’s got the long list of real peoples’ names and the amount of money each of them made with their “endless paychecks” (forgetting, for the moment, that unless we know the size of their portfolio then the dollar amounts they receive are utterly meaningless).

And there’s a quote from someone who sounds important, with the detailed “clues” redacted …

“‘[This strategy] is the hidden key… [if more people
did this], you would see a nation of happy
investors whistling their way toward retirement.’

— Lowell Miller, 3-time author and CNN commentator”

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