Re: WSJ Article on Oil Future Scams

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 06:45 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>The article concludes with a reference to a specific scammer
>and the reolution of a case.  Notice how RADIO was a prominent
>medium along with the Internet as a frequent source of
>these pitches?  Is there someting about RADIO "management"
>that winks at such promotions?  As far heating oil and
>unleaded gas futures   are concerned, it's "will the check clear?".

I was listening to WBUR this morning at the end of Morning Edition (around 
8:50am) and half-heard an underwriting spot for what sounded like a dietary 
supplement...which in 99% of the cases when you hear a dietary supplement 
being advertised it's a scam of some sort...legal or illegal, it's still a 
scam  :-)



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