Scam warning for men

Scam warning for men

This is the first warning I have seen for men. I wanted to pass it on in case you haven't heard about it before.

A 'heads up' for those men who may be regular Lowe's, Home Depot, or Costco customers. This one caught me by surprise.

Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic.

Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or to your friends.

Here's how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking 20-something girls come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the trunk.

They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts. It is impossible not to look. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say 'No' and instead ask you for a ride to McDonalds.

You agree and they get into the back seat.

On the way, they start undressing.

Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over you, while the other one steals your wallet.

I had my wallet stolen November 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th, and 29th. Also December 1st and 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 23rd, 26th and 28th; three times last Monday and very likely again this upcoming weekend.

So tell your friends to be careful. What a horrible way to take advantage of men. Warn your friends to be vigilant.

Wal-Mart has wallets on sale for $2.99 each. I found cheaper ones for $1.99 at Lowe's and bought them out.

Also, you never will get to eat at McDonalds. I've already lost 11 pounds just running back and forth to Lowe's, Home Depot and Costco.

Whew! These are dangerous times.

COASTAL ENERGY PACIFIC RUBIALES

COASTAL ENERGY

PACIFIC RUBIALES

Coastal Energy

was an interesting story with a great management team with

assets in Thailand and offshore Thailand. However, two

years ago they didn’t have much other than hope going for-

ward.

Now they are up close to 10,000 barrels a day and they

spudded the Songkhla-B prospect just before Christmas and

there should be results out some time in the next while. The

fact that Coastal is heading up strongly in the last few days

suggests that this well might have come up with something

for it to be making a move like this.

We caught up with Fred Kozak who has been advocating

this story for some time (as has Keith Schaefer of the Oil

and Gas Investments Bulletin) and Fred tells us the signifi-

cance of what is going on. There are two blocks on this tar-

get that they are drilling and the two faults have targets—

one of potentially 30 million barrels, the other of 70 million

barrels. Needless to say, if both of them hit, this story is

going to the moon. If not…well, this folks is what explora-

tion is all about.

Meanwhile, it’s that time of year we ask all our favourite

stock pickers if they could only buy one stock today, what

would it be? Kozak suggests that he is now showing the

strength of his conviction as he ups his target on Pacific

Rubiales to $25.00. While Pacific Rubiales has had an abso-

lutely amazing run (just like Bankers Petroleum, Coastal and

a few others) but a $25.00 target definitely is one of the suc-

cess stories of the day, should it get there.

I guess we owe Freddie a bottle of single-malt scotch

which is what he celebrates with when a story comes in big

and I suspect if Coastal comes up with that kind of news in

the next couple of weeks, there will be a few corks popping

around Houston.

We come up with the second question Freddie...if you are

a retail investor, Pacific Rubiales is now kind of out of your

league. Have you got any juniors? “Yes” he says, just

check out this one story that is a cheapie associated with

Pacific Rubiales.

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East Asia has had a bit of a correction over the last

couple of days and Dave Coffin says it is just a normal

correction in an ongoing good story.

Meanwhile, Nicolas Campbell updates us on Keegan

which is having a great day today and he suggests that a

scoping study should be ready by the end of this month

which is going to give the analysts something to look

forward to. More drilling results should also be out in a

couple of weeks as well. He also wouldn’t be surprised

to see the company acquire additional land in their hold-

ings in Ghana.

Meanwhile Campbell also points out more takeovers

today with Barrick and Goldcorp arguing over New Gold.

But he does suggest that that’s a probable exit strategy

for Keegan down the road…at some point, somebody

bigger buys them out.

We note several analysts suggesting several compa-

nies work in the area of Ghana and Red Back might be an

obvious buyer.

AMAZON MINING

(V-AMZ)

$2.35 +0.24

THALLION PHARM.

(V-TLN)

$0.30 +0.01

As we’ve mentioned, it’s the time of year to ask the

stock pickers and people with significant companies for

their selections for the coming year. John Kaiser has had

winner after winner after winner in the past year—

everything from rare earths to diamonds to you-name-it.

One that we have latched onto and even visited Brazil to

see first-hand is Amazon Mining. The stock hits new highs

today and Jed Richardson, the geologist/VP with the com-

pany tells us to expect additional drilling results early next

week.

We asked him for a stock pick, particularly since he was

one of those advocating Wavefront last year and he goes

with a weird one. “I’m aware of the plight of pharmaceuti-

cal stocks” he says, but he has big expectations for Thallion

Pharmaceutical, which has just signed a mega-deal with LFB

Biotechnologies of France. Richardson says the company

is trading for less than cash in the till and if their special-

ized drug works for different kinds of e-coli problems, he

can see this story attracting a lot of attention.