Brokers use names of Sept. 11 victims in wooing foreign investors

[lala_rawraw]

OMG... I think I just reached the 2+2=5 breakdown:

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http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqHaWueicqK9jtevsuK9ptvmTqLjps0vsuW

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Christopher Carey
Knight Ridder - Monday, February 14, 2005


ST. LOUIS _ Rogue brokers targeting foreign buyers of U.S. stocks have added a macabre twist: Their aliases are derived from victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Nearly all 22 executives and account managers listed on the Internet site for Bailey & Bennett Mergers and Acquisitions Inc. are actual or scrambled names of people who died in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or on the four airliners the terrorists hijacked and crashed.

Representatives of Bailey & Bennett have been calling investors in the United Kingdom in recent weeks, offering to buy back worthless shares of obscure U.S. companies at big premiums. It uses a slick Web site to create the appearance of legitimacy.

The Web site lists the headquarters on the second floor of a New York City office building. But all the space on that floor is leased to the city....

[DS1]

1. Ahh, my little Eichmann's

:eyes:

[Wilms]

2. Brilliant deduction. I'm stunned. n/t

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1237441