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“Only Company that can reach 1.3 Trillion Barrels of Oil”

July 2nd, 2008   by StockGumshoe

This teaser email has been rolling around for quite some time, I think — it at least triggered some memory bells, but I’ve never written about it and it’s still being actively promoted, so I thought it might be worth a gander.

And of course, it’s an oil services company … so there’s no mystery as to why the ad is circulating widely these days, anyone who can help get oil out of the ground has been printing money of late, so of course we’re all interested in learning about these companies.

Especially top secret ones. The ad is for Andrew Mickey’s Breakaway Investor, which we’ve certainly run across many times, and he’d like you to subscribe to Breakaway investor — in return, you’ll receive his special report, “”Uncovering the World’s 1.3 Trillion Barrels of Secret Oil.”

This teaser is for a company that helps in deepwater drilling, providing services to oil majors and other operators of offshore drilling platforms to help them produce oil.

Here’s how they sell it in the ad:
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Navellier Continues Pounding Gran Table

June 26th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Just a quick note for you, in case you happened to miss it … Navellier’s publisher is apparently enraptured with the “guaranteed double in one or two weeks or your money back” offer, and it’s happening again. For a stock we’ve already written about that failed it’s first couple tests.

A few weeks ago Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) was the focus of this campaign from Louis Navellier for his Global Growth service. The first time I saw this ad was on June 6, and the promise was that GTE, then at about $6, would double within 14 days. So that means a double by June 20, which was last Friday.

Didn’t happen.

He also said that “I guarantee you’ll thank me by next Friday,” which would have been June 13. I don’t subscribe to his service, so I didn’t feel the need to thank him, but nor have I given him any money that I expect back.

On June 6 when this campaign started, as far as I can tell, GTE closed at $6.07.

On June 13, it was up almost a dollar, to $7.01.

And on June 20, when the double was expected (that would be $12 for the mathematically challenged), the shares closed at $7.45.

They then trickled down over the last several days to close yesterady at $7.02, but, with this latest teaser campaign blanketing our inboxes and the price of oil going up again, GTE is having a good morning — up to $7.50 or so.

And the latest promise? It’s more or less the same thing, now we’re guaranteed that we’ll thank him by next Friday, and that the shares will double by July 11. Read the rest of this entry »

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“Profit from China’s Epic Hunt for Oil” Robert Hsu

June 24th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Robert Hsu has been sending out several teasers related to Chinese oil demand lately, no big surprise as we watch oil toy with $140 a barrel (should we even pay attention to $10 moves anymore? Boooorrring …)

In his words, “China’s hunt for oil is one of the most extraordinary, untold stories of our time. It also offers one of the greatest investment opportunities for investors today.”

And … “China’s epic hunt for oil doesn’t need much explaining but I’ll state the reason, bluntly: without oil, China’s economy goes back to the Stone Age, fast. And the ensuing civil strife across China would make the Mongolian Hordes look like a Sunday school picnic.”

He paints a nice picture, eh?
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