We get “rebate” and “refund” and “enrollment” check teasers all the time, it’s a popular way to give investors, especially inexperienced investors, the illusion that there’s some free way to get money that they don’t know about (which many people always suspect, anyway)… the story typically is that all you have to do is sign […]
This teaser solution was originally published in a Friday File for the Irregulars on November 30. The same ad is still circulating and several new folks have asked about it, so I’m releasing it for all to read today. What follows has not been updated since the end of November, and the ad is also […]
What’s the Oxford Club’s get rich with dividends? He speaks about a company that he invested $5,000 into and
in 3 years time it was paying back $60,000 a year in dividend payments. Is that even possible?
NYMT – Great dividend can’t seem to find alot of details on them
I’m looking to retire in a few years (<5) and i’m trying to build an income portfolio. I’m thinking of putting 2% of my portfolio into NYMT but can’t seem to find a whole lot on them. They have paid a great dividend over the last 15 years or so….. all opinions are welcome …. […]
Monthly stock advisory based on dividend income and their “IRIS” system of picking dividend growth stocks for retirement investing.
Suite of tools and information to build a dividend portfolio.
You know, I expect, that there’s no secret trove of “programs” where you can “sign up” and get a free check in the mail every month. But still, the notion that there’s “hidden income” out there is tempting… the newsletter promoters know that many of us are worried about income, or about not getting enough […]
Launched in 2016, aims to recommend trades in companies that pay special dividends (either one-time or ongoing)
These kinds of secret income pitches get sent around all the time, and that’s been true ever since Stock Gumshoe started publishing in 2007 — some of our very first articles were about deciphering the “secrets” behind schemes described as “801k Plans” (because they’re “twice as good as 401k plans“) and other terms that are […]
Tom Dyson at the Palm Beach Letter has generally been a relatively low-risk, income-focused guy — he used to run the 12% Letter for Stansberry, before starting Palm Beach Letter with Mark Ford a couple years ago, and for a newsletter guy he does relatively little of the “swing for the fences” stuff. Not that […]
I know that many of you have seen the teasers for the “$1.10 a Day Retirement Plan” that are being sent around the interwebs by the folks at the 12% Letter — not many folks have the email marketing might of Stansberry & Associates, that letter’s publisher, and lots of you have been asking about […]
I haven’t written much about the Palm Beach Letter, but Tom Dyson and Michael Masterson/Mark Ford have been given free reign to pitch their newsletter to most of the Agora and Stansberry mailing lists, it appears, so we sure see a lot of their ads. And lots of folks have been asking about this one, […]
Time with family and bloated turkey-filled bellies did nothing to slow down the avalanche of newsletter teaser ads — heck, we even saw plenty of “black Friday” deals for all those folks who are hoping to stuff a newsletter subscription into little Timmy’s Christmas stocking (yay!) But perhaps the most popular one that’s been sent […]
Dividend-focused stock advisory.
OK, you can stop asking now — because we’re just about to finish up with our latest multi-part series, covering the “loopholes” from the “Black Market Income” teaser for Stansberry’s 12% Letter. This letter pitches the idea that they have a secret website that “Wall Street” doesn’t want you to see — all about how […]
A couple variations on this teaser about “black market income” have been rolling around the marketplace for months now — the actual investments are still relatively normal, mainstream-ish companies and strategies, just as they were when the 12% Letter called parts of this “black market income” strategy by other names, which is why I haven’t […]
Today I’m looking for an interesting-sounding airline stock (yes, that does sound crazy — but bear with me). The tease came in from Roger Conrad a few minutes ago for his Big Yield Hunting newsletter, and he implies that although it’s maybe not as safe and solid as the picks he focuses on for his […]
The folks at KCI have been moving to a “pay by the month” format for some new “entry level” newsletters that have been released over the last year or two, and several folks have asked about Roger Conrad’s new one recently … so I thought I’d give it a look for you. Conrad’s new letter, […]
I haven’t sniffed out much in the way of dividend-paying stocks or income strategies in recent weeks, so this latest teaser from the folks at Cabot caught my eye. It’s not really a tease for Cabot picks, but for the digested picks of the Dick Davis folks (Dick Davis Digest is a regular digest of […]
Bryan Perry is fairly active in teasing ideas to garner new subscribers for his Cash Machine newsletter (formerly called 25% Cash Machine before, one assumes, that promise got to be too much to bear), and some of them have been pretty nice high yielders over the years, so when the questions about his latest tease […]
The article excerpted below was originally published here on August 6 as a Friday File for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars. It has not been updated, though the stock is up roughly 10% from that time. (For disclosure, I continue to be interested in the stock, but I haven’t bought the shares and continue to have […]
Dividends + Gold = Pretty much 99% of the questions I get from readers in any given day, so the headline of this teaser about getting a “8.4% Dividend From a Unique American Gold Investment” from Ian Wyatt for his Small Cap Investor Pro caught my eye: high dividends and gold? Where do I sign […]
We’re living in a bipolar world these days, it appears — I continue to get hundreds of email promos forwarded to me every day (thanks for that, by the way — the Gumshoe doesn’t work without fuel!), but these days the most ardent requests are those for either microcap gold or rare earth miners/explorers, or […]
I often find myself getting stuck in a rut writing about the same folks over and over — the Motley Fool guys, the various Agora offspring (Stansberry, Angel, etc.), Robert Hsu and Louis Navellier and their Investorplace colleagues come up over and over, largely because they’re the ones who push the most aggressive teasers … […]
I always like to see what Dan Ferris is recommending for subscribers of his Extreme Value newsletter, in part because I’m personally invested in a few of his picks that have done well (Altius Minerals and Sprott Resource), and in part because I’m generally sympathetic to the notion that long-term “value” investing is the best […]
I’ve been getting lots of questions about this secret toll-free phone number this week, so I thought I should try to take a look for you today. Apparently it’s all about some way to boost your dividend by calling a special phone number — which can’t help but conjure up a mental image of vast […]
This ad from Jim Nelson for his Lifetime Income Report caught my eye, in part because most of my ancestors came here from Sweden a few generations back to farm the upper Midwest and, apparently, strike stern poses for photographers. Today, though, the “Scandinavian Income” we’re being teased about is from the really wealthy part […]
There’s something just lovely about the humble quotation mark — throw a couple of ’em around a word, and you can put that word wherever you want and apparently face no consequences. This ad is for the Safe Haven Investor newsletter from Taipan, which is now edited by Kent Lucas, and, as usual, it’s pretty […]
On this bright and sunny Spring day our thoughts turn … to Mark Skousen. He’s selling subscriptions to his Forecasts & Strategies newsletter, and his pitch is that he predicted the 1980s boom, and warned investors that corporate profits were peaking in early 2007 … and that he’s got the best ideas for you to […]
This teaser comes in from Paul Tracy at the StreetAuthority family of newsletters, it’s for their High-Yield Investing newsletter that’s edited by Carla Pasternak … and, as so many newsletters do, they’ve taken a fairly commonplace investing strategy and given it a fake and mysterious name. Is that enough to get you to sign up […]
Bitterness over the financial bailouts seems to have waned a bit, but there’s certainly a strong vein of anger to mine … and that’s exactly what copywriters are paid to do. This time, it’s in an ad for Jim Nelson’s Lifetime Income Report — and this is the investment idea he’s got for you: “This […]
This teaser ad is from Jim Nelson, who’s trying to sell us his Lifetime Income Report for about $100 a year — this is a dividend-focused newsletter, and we’ve written about them before when they were teasing their system as “Plan B Pension Paychecks” (or if you prefer plain language, “dividend reinvestment”). But this time […]
Steve McDonald is trying to get us to subscribe to his Sound Profits newsletter by telling us that he’ll share the “Rabbi’s Secret” for making money in the markets. Now, in my experience McDonalds rarely have Rabbis — but it sounds like this is all based on a cute nickname for a broker that worked […]
Many folks have sent in this fun ad from the Oxford Club, one of many Agora-related publications — and a few folks even suggested the solution, which is easy if you’ve heard of it, but a bit obscure if you haven’t, and especially if you’ve never been a New Yorker. How’s that for a tease […]
Peter Schiff has become one of the rock stars of the economic collapse. If you haven’t yet run across his fans or his critics (and they usually end up at the same place), then here’s the brief: Schiff is a broker, he runs EuroPacific Capital. He has written two books in the past couple years, […]
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 a wee snippet […]
Quite a number of you, it appears, have seen this recent ad from Stansberry & Associates, trying to sell you a subscription to the 12% Letter by Tom Dyson. The teaser begins with the intriguing promise that there’s a “Postal secret” that will let you become a “1 share millionaire.”
“Whether stocks go up or down… some companies return tens of thousands of dollars a month starting with just a single share. But you can’t buy them on the market: They’re available through the U.S. mail. ‘It’s almost impossible not to make money’… says the SF Chronicle. What?
A big part of the advertising that comes out for Carla Pasternak’s High Income Investing is by way of their writeups on the “income security of the month” — and, as she has done this month, she often recycles these ideas … it looks like today’s “Income Security of the Month” was also the income security of the Month for October.
Times are tough, everyone’s cutting back — so no need to hire another copywriter if you’ve got a perfectly good sales letter sitting around!
Some of the comments below first appeared in this space back then, which now seems a lifetime ago, but I’ve added some more info and done some updating.
“These special hybrid securities not only provide strong returns during market turmoil thanks to the ‘AAA’-rated portfolio of their parent company — they also provide unlimited upside potential since the shares are convertible at any time into stock of the underlying company.”
“While most folks earn tiny 2%-6% dividends on Blue Chips (like Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, and AT&T) savvy Americans are secretly “boosting” those small yields to dizzying heights – earning incredible 30%-50% on the exact same shares. Originally available only to executives at America’s richest Blue Chip firms, this income secret is now available to […]
This morning we’re taking a brief break from the multitude of investment teasers that focus on the changes we expect from the Obama presidency — lately, many of those ads are hinting at riches from alternative energy companies and infrastructure-related firms, and I’m sure we’ll get back to them before too long. But today, I’m […]
A big part of the advertising that comes out for Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing is by way of their writeups on the “income security of the month” — I’ve looked at a few of these in the past, but it’s been a while, so now seems like as good a time as any to dig […]
This wee teaser comes to us from an ad for the Alternative Energy Speculator, which is the newsletter that came into being about a year ago and has so far been popping up like a Whack-A-Mole every couple months to push Westport Innovations and some solar power companies. And this time around, it’s a wind […]
“Using this three-step “paycheck portfolio” plan… tap into an endless stream of income, for as long as you’ll need it… starting with as many as 75 checks, sent automatically to your account.” Not bad, eh? That’s the tease from Chris Mayer and the Capital and Crisis newsletter from Agora (which is not to be confused […]
It’s baaaack! Jeff Clark’s Advanced Income investment newsletter is now being sold using yet another ad that has a clever invented name for his strategy — this time, we’re told that you can make a “market commission” on your stock and pull in money from your broker in just ten minutes. “Beginning right now, you […]
Today I’m looking at a teaser ad from Andrew Gordon of Investors Daily Edge — I’ve looked at a couple of Gordon’s teaser picks over the past year or so, one good (SunPower) and one very bad (Microvision). Apparently now his focus has moved a bit, he’s not talking about breakout high tech companies these […]
Let me just warn you up front — this is a rerun. But I calls ’em like I sees ’em, and Carla Pasternak runs this same exact ad so often that I get questions about it once every few months. This is no exception — she’s been calling this particular Closed End Fund (CEF) her […]
I know many of my readers are dividend fiends, and I always appreciate a buck in my pocket as much as the next guy, so I thought this latest missive from Tom Dyson at Stansberry and Associates might be worth a look. The ad actually began as a Daily Wealth article last month — back […]
Since writing about the “John and Helen Scott’s Drive Thru Retirement” teaser a few weeks ago I’ve heard from many folks that are interested in monthly dividend companies, so your Gumshoe thought he might poke around a bit and find some more for you. Who knows, maybe all the excitement is because it looks like […]
This teaser came in recently for the Motley Fool’s Income Investor newsletter which, you will be unsurprised to hear, is focused on dividend investing — though they often focus just as much on dividend growth as on current yields, so not all of their picks have super-high yields. They would love you to take a […]
[regular readers: this originally appeared last week and I’m just correcting some bad coding, sorry for any confusion] Can you really buy McDonald’s or Coca Cola for “pennies a share?” Leaving aside the fact that “pennies a share” means nothing, of course (with enough pennies, you could easily pick up some of Steve Sjuggerud’s favorite […]
“And collect up to $3,000 a month in TAX FREE income starting as early as Feb. 13, 2008.” That’s how a recent email teaser ad from Stansberry and Associates for Steve Sjuggerud’s True Wealth newsletter opens — and this kind of investment is always very appealing for folks when stocks are in crisis mode, as […]
This is an interesting one from Doug Fabian that I got a few days ago, teasing an income boosting strategy that uses dividends in a special way. He’d like you to sign up for a subscription to High Monthly Income to find out how to get this great dividend cash flow. In his words, “I […]
I hope that everyone who reads the teaser email from StreetAuthority.com for Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing takes their claims of a 35% forward dividend yield with a little bit of a grain of salt. Obviously, there’s no way to get a 35% annual dividend that’s sustainable and/or safe, so there must be something unusual going […]
This one comes in from Rob Fannon’s Medical Investor, another publication of Stansberry and Associates — we’ve seen a few of his teasers before, with actually some quite good results on their ideas for “SNiP Investments” and a few others. This time, as with so many Stansberry ads, there’s again an invented term to juice […]
Well, here’s another teaser that appears to have been resurrected from the backfiles, for a government-created “economic security fund” that “could help you safely earn 180% or more over next 2 years.” The last time around, more or less the same teaser email, for Steve Sjuggerud’s service with Stansberry and Associates, went around with the […]
This is a post I sent out a few months ago, around the time of the launch of the Dividend Grabber service — it used to tease a “$9000 one day payout” and now teases “Wall Street Bonus Checks,” but the main stock teased is still the same one, and I’m just adding this note […]
“Is it really possible to safely make $5,500 or more, in cash, in the next 24 hours?” That’s how they open this teaser for a new investment newsletter from Stansberry and Associates, called Jeff Clark’s Advanced Income. And just as an aside, duh, of course you can safely make $5,500 or more in 24 hours […]
This one comes in from Mark Skousen, who we hear teasing new ideas with some regularity, but this particular ad is for his high-income alert, which I haven’t seem an ad for prior to now. I have heard him talking quite a bit about dividends of late, whenever he gives a talk or is quoted […]
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Investors have no patience with retailers. The fear is that they all have the potential to devolve into Sears and Penney...
Nightmare because you owe taxes, or because the paperwork is difficult? REIT dividend income is taxable, though some RE...
Hi chaszz, I belonged to MF years ago & don't recall ever receiving a sell alert. So, yes, Tradestops' warnings are quic...
Hi people, I have to agree, Marc Lichtenfeld's book "Get Rich with Dividends" was a decent read. But that led me to the ...
Travis, is there a reason you don´t appear to be interested in any of the Pimco closed end funds which seem to pay good...
Those numbers are probably just copied over from last year, when the ex-div date was May 31 and Nokia paid an annual div...
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." —Albert Bartlett...
FCX is not about the dividends it's more about the growth. Check out a BDC stock like MAIN if you want a monthly compoun...
Thanks for reminding me that these special dividends rarely work out. Some years ago, Motley fool hyped FCX for a speci...
Analysis par excellence Travis! Truly tempting situation but as you stated just as soon as the special dividend was decl...
Brookfield Infra Partners (BIP) has certainly been a great one, as has their parent Brookfield Asset Mgmt (BAM), which w...
1. Most indebted non financial company in US with over $177B of debt. 2. Very limited ability to sell assets to pay dow...
Longer term pespective required for this one. John Del Vecchio comes across as honest to me; he admits when he gets som...
Thanks for the heads up. Just watched 4/26/19 apparently the same video almost. Said 5% yield, true at the $1.82 price...
Please read the article. “Collecting rent” in this case means receiving dividends from REITs, which you buy like an...
About a year ago I received the pitch about "Freedom Checks" and started studying the details. Thank God I have good eye...
I lost money on his call option the moment an earning release brought the stock down 5 points even before the take over ...
There is nothing to “sign up” for — you earn rent checks by owning property, in this case buying publicly traded R...
When predicting what the stock price necessary for an 800 per cent gain for the respective 110 Jan call ($190)and the 12...
I Love Old Boring Companys that been around because you know what your gonna get and that there most likely going to be ...
Not a bad analysis. The only thing I'd add is *why* Amazon has such low profits. They're not "investing in R&D," whi...
Thanks for writing this, as recession fears are heavy on my mind too- and I wonder what other folks think. And this ...
I checked the claims on Brett's latest mailing "How to Retire on 8% Dividends Paid Monthly". None of the ten funds come...
It's not even clear what their dividends have been; anyone with insight?...
We do see these kinds of adds all the time -- often headlined with the word "Checks" -- ...
This is a long term investment, not a get rich today buy. It appears no one read the entire message from Alex. I have be...
Just a tip from a Thinkolater follower! I have a Canadian stock “CNXXF” that seems to a be a REIT-style set up! My p...
You mention in the article that Altius is one of your largest personal holdings. Has that stock paid good past dividend...
How do i receive my dividends since 31st march, 2008...
REITs are not scams, generally speaking, but they're not miraculous money-generators either. REITs own the buildings an...
Thanks for the clarification on this subject. Think it would be better for me to invest in precious metals. This feder...
But, Irregular, Green talked about dividends. Are you receiving dividends from this stock that make it worth it on that...
Trying to re-post my January 14th cannabis comment: Hi Hittman, Cannabis investing is very speculative, invest only wha...
I don’t know how their dividends are classified, if they’re earnings or return of capital. Canadian withholding sho...
There seems to be a more consistent and faster profit out of the special dividends. Sell short prior to ex-dividend dat...
And yet the pundits continue to praise the practice as "returning cash to the shareholders". The only shareholders who ...
Lest anyone thinking only Navellier has a Dividends newsletter...
I wrote and asked Contrarian Income Report to address the comments by Billo Jenkins. In his email response Jonathan Butt...
I had NMM a few years ago and was bathing in its high dividends, when it crashed from about $11 to its present value. Th...
Wow sounds like a scheme to me! Will not use the. “P.” word! But one can not make aggressive payouts of any kind wit...
How about PDRx Pharmaceuticals? For the year 2018 they paid $3.06 in dividends. In 2017 they paid $.30 a share. At th...
Those are surprising recommendations from Lichtenfeld, given that NONE of them are on his current recommended list! I'v...
That's good, but in spite of the huge dividend from WPG REIT, I will stay with the Thinkolator and say no to these 3 r...
So I just watched Dr Smith's promo for Tradestops lifetime at $3500 (plus sales tax)- looks like something I would reall...
That’s where the market makers and brokers will open trading the first day ex dividend, and that makes sense in a perf...
The other thing that seems to happen with the Trump and Patriot Checks, which are based on the same dividends, is that a...
It is ok, some big misses, but winners too. But overall I have lost money with them as st O k price regressive offset di...
Why not just buy GAB and earn at least 10% dividends/year with a 30 year track record. 30 years, 10% per year....
re: stop losses/buy limits. Like most of the rest of you, I have my own personal investment philosophy on stop losses ...
Subscriber for 18 months and stuck with it too long. The basket is too big for most investors (19 funds in the portfolio...
Travis - if the P/E is 103 and the dividend is 4%, how is the dividend "safe"? Stock price is just over $100, with earn...
Earning dividends from investments in Marijuana related businesses is intriguing. Have you looked at Compass Holdings (...
When I think of extreme dividends potential... I think of KMI who has programed their dividend to increase over time and...
I've been jumping around all over the place today starting with "Extreme Dividends" Teaser. So I will just comment on th...
I started out with DRIPs over 20 years ago. I still have several but most are less than 100 shares. I then stopped DRI...
First of all, you should never subscribe to any stock/option advisory service without a trial period (eg. 30-90 days) in...
I don't understand how BXMT is a "dog". It's been paying 0.62 per share since 2015. If you bought anywhere at or about $...
Investigate (CIM) Chimera, aREIT that pays 10+ % Dividends Annually on a Quarterly basis and has done so Continuously fo...
Church & Dwight is another star in this category. Great products, consistent dividends, and lots of diversity beside...
Actually to be totally honest Bill over the past 20 years Whole Life has paid dividends of 5-7% not 4-7% as you have sta...
Sorry that I wasn't clear, Nick. There are, of course, no free "payouts" that you "fill out a form" to receive. This t...
when you buy or sell shares, you dont buy/sell them from/to another shareholder, BUT you go to a stockbroker who gets th...
the tech side of the market is rarely valued on dividends (income) and always valued on growth. that is the Micron dilem...
I haven't looked at $MU in a long time. With so much earnings why not pay a fat dividend - wouldn't that drive the share...
Likely a very similar idea, but Heritage Checks is a made-up term from a different newsletter (Stephen Leeb's Complete I...
Did you read the article above? This is a capitalist move, not a racist move (or at least, not any more racist than any...
Three years late here, but I would've saved a whole lot of money by finding this article sooner. Bryan Perry is still se...
Did you read the article? Take a minute. Of course they're not real in the way they're selling, they're just dividen...
Does eCobalt pay dividends ?!...
Actually, they recommended buying it in their Retirement Millionaire Portfolio in November of 2010 at $26.94, are still ...
Unfortunately, Diane, it's not a list that you sign up for and they send you a check. These are REITs (Real Estate Inves...
It's not good to hold foreign stock in tax deferred accounts because you can't claim the foreign tax paid since they are...
Me too. Buy a hotel REIT, like AHT but ONLY under $6. They pays good dividends too....7.5%. I buy dirt cheap and ...
Good plan, Dave. I'm 58, do not have time to GAMBLE with hard-earned cash. DRIP plans invested in solid companies tha...
FOXCONN .... I looked at the financial fundamentals and a recent balance sheet. The company is a relatively solid comp...
The Bio for the HNHAF founder matches the Bio they give in the story. I was able to buy small quantities (like 42) w...
They do mention or picture Fayez Sarofim in some of the ads, if that's what you're referencing -- he's a junior owner of...
Aussie G Uncle Porter Stansberry was telling his followers some years back that "The End of America" was nigh and cha...
I am looking for higher dividends, around 8-10% a year. This newsletter is called the DIVIDEND MACHINE. I NOT found an...
Not exactly, but similar — all dividends from owning different kinds of stocks....
3 out of 4 trades have lost over 25% of their value not including dividends over the past 3 months....
It has to be bonds. They are talking about how YOU can profit. Sounds like dividends to me....
VZ. Personally, I own a full position that I recently started as their yield went up and for the further possibility of...
invest in an utility, like philadelphia electric. the stock does not increase or decrease very much, but the dividends ...
The vast majority of regular corporation stock dividends will be “qualified,” the place where you typically find unq...
Is there data available showing which dividends are qualified dividends?...
where do I find stocks paying qualified dividends?...
This "liberty Vouchers" are certificates you can get if you invest in a certain international company... you receive div...
Haven't looked at that just yet, but he's probably touting one of the REITs that owns primarily government buildings -- ...
$SCCO NP I have fond memories of Southern Copper. I owned them back when they were $PCU, and said back then that you c...
After examining the video further, I think it is nonsense. Here is why: He claims the ignition event (first dividend) f...
$ABBV yes I agree with OKumiau. I'm steadfastly ignoring the almost daily reminders from Schwab that I have to do some...
Hi Mason, sounds like you're off to a great start. I agree that the long-term growth in China is compelling, and puttin...
Have owned Abbot for over 25 years. Always reinvested dividends. Truly best in class management devoted to shareholder v...
Travis why do you own so much Berkshire in your portfolio when returns are in par with the S&P500 and BRK pays no divide...
One of my hopeful China stock just came out. Its $IQ no dividends yet but could have a strong future......
Thank you for your offer. I would like to find a source of financial info. like, earnings dates, dividends, forecasts,...
On Banyon Hill Publishing. I am novice at investing so did not check when stocks were first bought in the model portfol...
That's probably true. I am trying to disclose as much as I can in a reasonable way, but there isn't a clear annualized ...