Transaction ID: 896***AE7 — Pay $1 and Legally “Secure” 110% Gains?

This is a teaser from Mike Williams for his True Income service, so there are a few of you out there who already know what I’m about to share — but it’s an ad that’s catching a lot of attention, so I thought I should give it a look.
The ad teases that there’s a “Transaction [...]

“Protected Certificates: Mandated Gains, Guaranteed” — True Income

“U.S. Gov’t Mandates Texas Media Giant To Pay You 127% Gain By Sep. 15, 2010
“Right now, a little-known Federal Law requires certain U.S. companies pay investors 100% gains or more – WITHOUT touching the stock market.
“Already in 2009, these investments have crushed the S&P 500 by more than 500%, according to The Washington [...]

“Lock in this Double Digit Income … May Not Last Long”

We close out the week with a look at the “Income Security of the Month” — Carla Pasternak puts one of these out each month as a teaser to get folks to subscribe to her High-Yield Investing newsletter, and we’ve looked at several of them before — it’s been a hodgepodge, the Korea Fund and [...]

“The Best of Both Worlds . . . High Yields with Low Risk”

Who can resist a headline like that? High yields, low risk … that’s pretty much the holy grail for investors these days (well, except for those who haven’t yet given up on finding the next Google, or the next Seabridge Gold).
So what is this all about? Today I’m working with just [...]

“Lock in” Gains with “Minimum Notes” — True Income

Quite a number of you have sent notes to me about these, um, notes lately — if you’re on many of the newsletter or financial mailing lists you’ve probably seen them, too. This is a teaser that promises …

“Buy this investment today and “lock in” a minimum gain of 244% (It could possibly [...]

Mega Bonds: Closest thing to a perfect investment?

Many of the delightful readers of Gumshoe Nation have sent in this ad, for the True Income service from Stansberry & Associates. As with so many ads these days, it teases us that, (if we’ll just subscribe and follow their advice), we can make tremendous profits with lower risk.
Here’s how it [...]

“Cash in With Crisis Bonds” Safe Haven Investor

We’ve got a nice little teaser that tells us we could be making “safe” money while the world burns if we buy “Crisis Bonds.” What is a crisis bond? I’m so glad you asked! Let’s investigate this one together, shall we? Justice Litle calls it the “Safest Investment in America Today.”

“The Next Great Investment Bubble is about to Explode”

Ian Cooper’s Options Trading Pit newsletter is out with a new ad, in a letter from Brian Hicks, that tells us that the biggest investment bubble is about to explode … and that Ian’s got the trades to tell you about that will help you profit from this explosion.
They don’t hide the “bubble” [...]

Be “Dumb and Rich with TD Circ 570’s”

“It doesn’t involve Stocks… Government Bonds… Currencies… or even Options.” Steve McDonald wants to sell us a service that will help select safe investments. The ad says that “back testing the strategy to 1920 proved that it was 99.77% risk-free.” Is that kind of return really possible … or, more importantly, is it likely? And what is he talking about?

“Safe Harbor Savings Accounts” — How to Sit Back and Become a Millionaire

Does this ring a little bell for you? It might, if you’re a careful reader of every Gumshoe article (and why wouldn’t you be, really?). This ad is almost exacly the same as one that I wrote about back in October — an investment that is super safe, on the bargain rack, [...]