Novum

34 days ago

Hydrogen Utopia – a placing that stinks after an RNS that deceived

I explained in yesterday’s second bearcast why the day’s release from Hydrogen Utopia (HUI) was nonsense built upon nonsense built upon nonsense. £500,000 has gone missing and what was meant to be a cash cow supplying weed to folks like Liam Murray is, in fact a cash drain. After that ramptastic shite, today comes a discounted and paltry placing that stinks in every way possible. Let’s start with a statement from CEO Aleksandra Binkowska yesterday:
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96 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Even Trustpilot has abandoned the 79th group fraudsters: the moral bankruptcy of James Knowles and Novum

Even Trustpilot (TRST) can see the game us up for the 709th Group fraudsters. You need a heart of stone not to weep at the last review which is below. But First Class Metals (FCM) and Novum do not give a FF about vulnerable old folks cleaned out and dying in misery and poverty thanks to 79th. 
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106 days ago

GOTCHA!: First Class Metals, bent chairman goes, funding crisis as ponzi 79th cannot back phase 2 placing

The amazing thing is that David Webster, the founder of ponzi fraud the 79th Group had been arrested as part of Operation Mold BEFORE he was appointed as chairman of First Class Metals (FCM), First’s board knew this as did scumbag advisor Novum but they went ahead anyway knowing that without the 79th taking its stake to 50% via a placing at 1.7p, First was bust. Today, after the weekend revelations, Webster has resigned with immediate effect.

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108 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 2- surely heads must roll at First Class Metals, Novum and at the FCA after today's exposes

I am not sure that pleading incompetence is enough. First Class Metals (FCM) shares must now be suspended and heads must roll there at the scumbag advisor Novum and at the FCA after today's two exposes on this website about the 79th Group, Steven Knight and Gary Webster
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108 days ago

79th Group and the Gibraltar Fraudsters looking after its “assets” how did the FCA and Novum miss this?

In allowing the mini bond fraudsters at the 79th Group to take a 50% stake in First Class Metals (FCM) the FCA approved a prospectus submitted by the scoundrels at Novum Securities. Both the FCA and Novum will have claimed to have done due diligence even though Stevie Wonder could see that the 79th was a ponzi. Well how did they miss that the 79th claimed assets had been looked after by a proven serial fraudster Steven Knight via Gibraltar regulated but UK operating Castle Trust & Management Services.
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108 days ago

79th Group – the façade continues to crumble, ponzi fraud runs out of cash

As with all Ponzi schemes once the flow of new monies stops, the cracks in the scam start to appear. In 79th Group case this was initially triggered by the City of London Police announcement of fraud investigation against the 79th group and arrest of the four senior individuals at the group believed to be Gary Webster, his sons Jake and Curtis and the CEO Natalie Bellis. Further signs of the collapse of the 79th group are now starting to appear.
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127 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 2: a Versarien owning Kraut wants to save my reputation

My brother in laws are both half Krauts so I must not be too rude. I start on this matter then look at the Colin Bird mining tiddlers and what is going on at Tiger Royalties (TIR), then why Novum thinks lying to investors is fine and dandy then what am I missing, why is TrustPilot (TRST) not a massive short. I also look at why you go short bitcoin long gold as a pair trade if you think the US economy is in trouble so stockmarkets will stumble.. 

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132 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No1: the shares are collapsing and the silence is deafening, where are scumbag advisors Novum and the useless FCA?

Yes it is back to the mini bond ponzi fraud scandal the 79th Group and to First Class Metals (FCM). I explain why the 79th must collapse either soon or not quite so soon and why First must accept that, issue an RNS and brace itself for its own shares, already falling fast, to crash. .
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133 days ago

SHOCKING EXPOSE: 79th Group – the hidden £43 million of UK trading losses, did nobody at the FCA, Novum or First Class do any due diligence?

The news broken HERE yesterday that the 79th Group appears to have been a scam might not have been such a surprise if the dubious quality advisers who persuaded their clients to lend them money if the advisers or their investees had done some research. The first major red flag is that 79th Grp isn’t registered with the UK regulator, the FCA. So it was conducting unauthorised investment business. How the feck did the FCA then approve a prospectus allowing to to seize control of First Class Metals (FCM). It gets worse.
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285 days ago

Listed at 39p yesterday by the scumbags at Novum, GenIP now just 26.5p: Evil Banksta weighs in

I flagged up yesterday what a farce GenIP (GNIP), the latest spin off from the Augean stable that is TekCapital (TEK), was and how it would end in tears. Listed at 39p after a fund raise conducted by the low life scumbags at Novum, the shares are now 26.5p, to lose a third of your money on an IPO in just over 24 hours is some feat.
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379 days ago

Xtract Resources is running on fumes, shares sliding ever faster: statement re placing needed

I flagged this up in bearcast last week but the silence from Colin Bird’s Xtract Resources (XTR), London’s worst Nomad “Roland “fatty” Cornish and scumbag broker, the king of the spivs, Jon Bellis at bucket shop Novum is deafening. Shares in this perennial penny dreadful are now just 0.95p and sliding fast.

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385 days ago

World Chess: today’s placing makes no sense and stinks

I flagged up in a recent bearcast some of the numerous red flags in which Standard Listed World Chess (CHSS), a shocking IPO organized by the scallywags at Novum, is drowning. Today comes a real stinker. At the time of my warning the shares were 5p. They are now 2p-4p.

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726 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Has Andrew Male got photos of Novum boss Hugh McAlister and a naked BBC presenter?

In today’s bearcast I discuss Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) and the relationship between crooked Andrew Male and Novum. Then Predator Oil & Gas (PRD), Cellular Goods (CBX) and some incriminating emails on twitter and finally IOG (IOG) and why Evil Banksta reckons the bond price tells you this is a wipeout.

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727 days ago

Cloudbreak Discovery – the CEO is Andrew Male: you cannot be serious?

Today Cloudbreak Discover (CDL) announced a new keep the lights on death spiral. In looking at this I saw that the (interim, following a sudden resignation last month) CEO is Andrew Male. That name rings a bell? Andrew Male, what the f**k is financial adviser Novum thinking? As John McEnroe used to scream “you cannot be serious?”

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743 days ago

David Beckham's Cellular Goods – it’s a “partnership” spoof

The David Beckham backed POS Cellular Goods (CBX) has still refused to explain why it has given away 16% of its equity to a crony mate of its founders Bixby & Edwards (who have since IPO dumped all their shares) for a start up in the seaweed to net zero space with no business. And so as it hurtles towards running out of cash by Christmas, it is trying to spoof investors to allow the spivs at Novum to get a bailout placing away. Today there is an obvious spoof.

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820 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: World Chess another disgrace from Novum this is a £75 million insanity

I start with a few words about how we are trapped up at the Greek Hovel. Then it is onto World Chess (CHSS). Finally the curse of Sir Tony Baldry, the slug like ex Tory MP, is – I sense- about to fall yet again on Westminster Group (WSG). 

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846 days ago

Predator Oil & Gas discounted placing as Novum finds a loophole to circumvent prospectus rules: swivel FCA!!!!

I pointed out a few weeks ago that Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) run by the troll Lonny Baumgardener and the share dealing just ahead of a placing whizz Paul Griffiths was pumping its shares ahead of an inevitable discounted bailout placing. Call me Mystic fecking Meg. So today Predator has raised £2 million at just 5.5p. But this is not just a straight placing. It stinks. With a hat tip to Evil Banksta let me explain.

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887 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: I shall now block anyone emailing me about Kefi, it is sending me bonkers

In today’s long Bearcast I discuss Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI), Sosandar (SOS), Argo Blockchain (ARB), Ben’s Creek (BEN), Cellular Goods (CBX) and an IPO from Primary Bid and the spivs at Novum to avoid like the plague: World Chess

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922 days ago

BREAKING - GOTCHA! Dev Clever - A £250 million UK tech blow up: delisting, lies and looks to be bankrupt

I have always warned folks about this company, even before its shares were suspended at 30p last Christmas Eve, giving it a £250 milllion market cap. Others ramped away or took vast fees (bucket shop adviser Novum and PR Chris Lane at Buchanan) step forward. But this was always a failing business drowning in red flags. Today it ‘fessed. Well sort of. It also lied.

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960 days ago

CloudTag: Life in the old fraud yet or just a new fraud and possibly money laundering?

Cloudtag (CTAG) was a bulletin board darling which we exposed as a bankrupt fraud on this website numerous times HERE. Eventually the company’s Nomad, Liam Murray at Cairn Financial, arrived at the same conclusion and gave his notice of resignation.  However the company then raised £975,000 via broker Novum without telling Novum or anyone else about that resignation. Murray thus resigned with immediate effect and Novum unwound the placing while, with no other Nomad prepared to take on this toxic client, it was booted off the AIM sewer in March 2017.

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968 days ago

Dev Clever are you a £255m BUST yet? How about a year end trading statement?

Shares in Dev Clever (DEV) remain suspended as, after 11 months, the FCA is still refusing to sign off on a RTO prospectus. But that is the least of Dev’s worries, it must surely be bankrupt by now, how about its advisers, those fine fellows at Novum, cobble together an October 31 year end trading statement. Here is the maths:

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1007 days ago

BREAKING: Love Hemp – things going from bad to worse, bankruptcy looming, can even Novum stand the stench?

For disgraced Graham Mullis of (growing as of today) Novacyt (NCYT) infamy, things are going from bad to worse as new shocks emerge at Aquis listed Love Hemp (LIFE).

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1024 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Diary date 23 September 2023

Put it in your diary now. That is ShareStock 2023. Come on Jimbo you have more than a year to persuade your Mrs to allow you out for the weekend. Courage mon brave! In the podcast I look at Audioboom (BOOM), Parsley Box (MEAL), Fevertree (FEVR) and the greed of Novum, king of the spivs Jon Bellis and Strand Hanson with 2 Standard List IPOs today. No way on earth with that structure will anyone bar the crony capitalists make money from those deals. Coke & hookers all round.

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1079 days ago

Toople dire interims, insolvency looms and is it admitting to lying to investors about money?

Toople (TOOP) has always been a dog with fleas and anyone owning the shares, down another 28% today to 0.021p has only themselves to blame – the loss since launch is now 99.75%.  But today’s statement seems to contain an admission of an obvious and monstrous lie told in an RNS before Christmas. Is low life adviser Novum happy with its clients lying to investors? I suspect it doesn’t care as long as it is paid but I’d hope that the FCA would care.

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1081 days ago

BREAKING: Evrima – another POS hiding the ghastly truth about its finances from investors

Shame on bucket shop Novum and on Peterhouse Corporate Finance for acting for Aquis listed Evrima (EVA). It is almost certainly insolvent unless king spiv Jon Bellis can raise it new funds, it is a lifestyle business and it wants to hide the ghastly truth from investors.

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1146 days ago

BREAKING - MAJOR CITY EXPOSE: Nostra’s Lofgran & disgraced Gavin Burnell in bed with penny share pump & dumper facing 85 years US jail – real problems for Red Rock Resources, Genflow, Zak Mir and more

This is a major scandal – one that will create massive embarrassment for those operating in the depths of the AIM, Aquis and Standard List sewers. And for Matt Lofgran of Nostra Terra (NTOG), his buddy, Gavin Burnell of the Globo (GBO) fraud, and Novum infamy, it poses a major question of what they knew and when.

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1174 days ago

Perhaps Vela’s new PR man, “Greenie” might want to explain his boss’s CV omission

Sub scale technology investment waste of space company Vela (VELA) has today announced that it has hired a new PR and IR firm Novum to ramp its shares. Novum, aka my old pal Alan Green, I have a question for you about the gap in the website CV of your boss Brent Fitzpatrick, the one linking him to a convicted fraudster and jailbird.

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1203 days ago

Watch out, Gavin Burnell of Globo and Novum infamy - you have a violent doppelganger in your home town!

Poor old Gavin. As if life wasn’t hard enough already for the old scallywag, several people have been in touch to suggest that the violent train hoodlum, flagged up on Twitter below, is, in fact, the colourful financier. Of course, though the hoodlum appears to live in the same town as Burnell, it cannot be him, since Gavin is both an honourable and respected member of the financial community. And thus I must warn him that he has a doppelganger who, like him, lives in Woking, and who, unlike Burnell, seems not quite the true scholar and gentleman. 

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1280 days ago

Colin Bird’s joke investment company Tiger, the related party nest of snakes – massively discounted bailout placing ahoy

I warned you in late September, as Tiger Royalties (TIR) published dreadful interims, that the dream team of “Mr Related Party” Colin Bird, London’s worst Nomad Roland “Fatty” Cornish and its spivviest broker John Bellis of Novum would need to do a placing before April Fool’s day or Tiger would be a dead big cat not for bouncing. Things have got worse.

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1407 days ago

NFT joins Dispersion in the crackers world of Blimp – this is even more so dotcom, let’s party like it’s 1999

NFT Investments (NFT) is like Dispersion Holdings (DEFI) an investment company listed on the Aquis lobster pot. The chancers who own most of the shares thanks to pre IPO funding at a huge discount to the IPO are the same crew led by Mike Edwards and Jonathan Bixby.  Scumbag broker Novum raised most of the cash, £11.2 million for Dispersion and £35 million for NFT. And the connections do  not end there.

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1426 days ago

Dispersion Holdings Blimp Investment - this is so “2001 dotcom lunacy” can anyone explain it to me?

Maybe I am just a dinosaur. I wrote the same sort of articles back in 2001 asking why a start up company with websites selling masturbating gnomes was suddenly worth £50 million. Of course clever young folks just said I was a dinosaur and that the world had all changed and I did not get it. These days it is NFTs and tokens. I have covered the tawdry Bixby/Edwards/Novum spivs enterprise Dispersion Holdings (DEFI) before but I challenge anyone to explain the business case of its latest investment.

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1539 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The NFT monster bubble and the tears already starting at NFT Investments

96% of you are yet to get your credit card out. I really do have a Dan Levi in his underpants picture and am not kidding about publishing so please do donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks now HERE. Then it is onto NFT Investments and NFT’s and the scandal I covered HERE.  I look at previous bubbles and try to put it into context. All those involved: the promoters Jonathan Bixby & Michael Edwards, scumbag broker Novum and Aquis should hang their heads in shame. They won’t. They are preparing to do it all over again and soon.

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1611 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: 2 stocks my pension bought today & the pot madness grows

Deep Throat has sent Winnileaks 2 confidential presentations for cannabis IPOs c.o low grade brokers Novum and Peterhouse. Novum bats for the Beckham linked Cellular Goods which I exposed here and it is so sleazy it includes a chart of the share price of the Zoetic (ZOE) fraud as a reason to buy. I discuss these companies as well as the Peterhouse play, Spinnaker Opportunies (SPO). If that opportunity knocks, I’ll pass. I look at Remote Monitored Systems (RMS) and discuss the two shares I bought and why: Red Rock Resources (RRR) and AEX Gold (AEXG).

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1636 days ago

Xtract Resources – a classic Colin Bird Pump & Dump action replay from September

With some folks having paid 8p+ for shares in Xtract Resources (XTR) late last week, today  the company did a placing to the sewer dwelling clients of Novum Securities at just 4.5p.  The shares are now just 4.8p to sell. Boy those folks suckered in by the Colin Bird ramping must be hurting today. This is so familiar but I did warn you explicitly what the old scoundrel was up to.

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1749 days ago

Xtract Resources – Calamity Bird does it again: another forward sold placing with spiv bucket shop Novum plus dirty dealings by ex Beaufort boss and there was just no need!

Having advised readers to bank big gains on Xtract Resources  (XTR), I waited the requisite period and then dumped my own shares, disgusted by the way that Chairman Colin “Calamity” Bird seemed determined to dilute his mug punters in a shameless and un-needed fashion. Today, vindication.

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1761 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: sorry Colin enough is enough I am out

In today’s podcast I consider my dining experience in Chester last night and then look at Carnival (CCL), Supply@ME Capital (SYME) and its jail bait CEO and the 1 question its diehard supporters cannot answer. Moving on I consider Xtract Resources (XTR), Tiger Royalties (TIR) and the loathsome spiv Jon Bellis of Novum who has now pushed me over the edge, I look at Novacyt (NCYT) and TrakM8 (TRAK), once the beau of Britain’s thirstiest share blogger

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1778 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - is this the smelliest nest of vipers on the London market?

On the exact occasion of my 7th wedding anniversary I am off to see my father so just a brief bearcast from me. Well quite a long one actually but it is recorded early. I start with Carnival Cruises (CCL), then TrainLine (TRN) and then the stinking nest of vipers that is Asimilar (ASLR), Dev Clever (DEV), All Active Asset Capital (AAA), Mark Horrocks, Chris Akers, Novum and Peterhouse Capital. Hold your noses as you listen.

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1799 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: drilling into the shocking accounts of broker Novum and is this the crazy broker note that marks peak gold madness?

The note I refer to is from Align on Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV). I agree the shares are cheap. I own some! But are they as cheap as the note suggests? Nope. It is bonkers. I discuss its author and other peak cycle bonkers notes etched in my brain. I look at R4E (R4E) and why you should not follow Fraud. Then at the accounts from troubled broker Novum which came out yesterday. They are truly shocking and get a full debagging from me. I comment on Hammerson (HMSO) and illusory asset values and on Simec Atlantic (SAE) and – en passant – Hurricane Energy (HUR).

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1822 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Zak Mir's kiss of death as I celebrate P45s for vermin journalists

I have spent most of the day recording videos for MineProphets and should warn you that Zak Mir has served up a double kiss of death. Anyway the content is – forgive my conceit – excellent so please book your seat now HERE.  In the podcast I discuss scumbags at Blue Rock Diamonds (BRD), Great Western Mining (GWMO) and its scumbag broker Novum, Kefi Minerals (KEFI) where I was wrong about something and Big Sofa (BST).

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1864 days ago

Novum Securities Limited - the shocking financials, as I ask the FCA to investigate

I have today, finally, got around to asking the FCA to investigate the covert work being done by unregulated Gavin Burnell of Globo and Beaufort infamy for bucket shop broker Novum. But maybe there is a reason why Novum has to swim in the gutter…it needs the cash so badly.

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2115 days ago

Winnileaks Exclusive: Bahamas Petroleum responds to ShareProphets & dissembles

Earlier today I revealed that Bahamas Petroleum (BPC) was trying to raise $25 million. It could not do it at 1.4p so is now trying at 1.2p and that it has had to rope in bucket shop brokers such as Novum and Cornhill shows that it is struggling. The company has responded but, thanks to Winnileaks, it has dissembled as I demonstrate  with an email that has fallen into my hands as you can see below.

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2234 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the latest Novum/Aberdeenman POS ramp deconstructed & asking the fuzz to investigate two old friends

In today’s bearast I take a detailed look at Sub Standard list Bermele (BERM) which is over-ramped, dripping in red flags and been pushed by shamed Bulletin Board Moron Aberdeenman. I also explain why I shall, tomorrow, be asking the Met to investigate whether Julie “lingerie on expenses” Meyer and her lawyer Peter McGrath might  as a result of this  be perverting the course of jiustice as I have news on the FCA’s criminal investigation into Meyer which seems to be ratcheting up. I am not accusing either of this serious crime merely asking the Met to see if something awry is taking place.

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2267 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Psst - does anyone want to buy a bucket shop?

In today’s bearcast I cover Optibiotix (OPTI), Vela (VELA), Woodford Patient Capital trust (WPCT), Ascent Resources (AST), Mosman Oil & Gas (MSMN), Management Resource Solutions (MRS), Bidstack (BIDS) and Optiva/Novum and a hot City rumour. Also I have a message for 90% of listeners – please be a hero today, my 21 mile training walk for this weekend has been planned so donate to Rogue Bloggers for Woodlarks HERE

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2331 days ago

The curse of Beaufort strikes again - Gavin Burnell & Andrew Gutmann have left the Novum Building

I have highlighted before the curious way that Gavin Burnell of Globo (GBO) infamy was working at Novum Securities even though the FCA had not re-authorised him to conduct investment business following the demise of Beaufort Securities. All good things must come to an end.

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2379 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: AAOG £4m placing at 10p? And what do IFA's who have stuffed clients into Woodford do now?

In today's bearcast I bring you a hot rumour. The King of the spiv bucket shops Jon Bellis of Novum is apparently trying to raise £4 million at 10p for Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG). I look at Sound Energy (SOU), Andalas (ADL), delays in selling houses and in a similar vein what IFA's who have put clients into Woodford funds do next. I also look at Gear4Music (G4M) and director share buying which is a sell signal. I make a brief comment on Optibiotix (OPTI) and almost tie it in with a mother-in-law joke but resist the temptation.

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2499 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Bearcast: More shameless ramping & sordid Leni-maths from Horse Hill & UK Oil & Gas - the real numbers don't stack up

Below you will find shameless ramping on twitter from David Lenigas and also a link to BMD's take on the latest shameful RNS from UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) on the "Gatwick Gusher." The language used in the RNS is misleading and what is served up offers no evidence at all that the shares are not grotesquely over-valued. Only a sordid festering boil on the side of AIM such as Nomad Roland "fatty" Cornish could have signed off on this tripe. There is lso a clear signal of m ore discount placings ahead with the appointment of bucket shop spivs Novum as co-broker. that means just one thing. All is explained in this bonus bearcast as I look at the real data offered not the Leni-maths.

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2561 days ago

Andalas – The greed of scum City advisers laid bare as another post ramp bailout placing announced

That insolvent Andalas Energy (ADL) is undertaking a placing is no shock. It is insolvent with negative net current assets of  at least £400,000 but thanks to some fairly sordid share ramping it has managed to raise a gross £1 million at 0.02p. The ramping of shares in this company with worthless assets is pretty unpleasant but what is laid bare in the news is the sheer greed of City advisers notably brokers Novum – of Jon Belliss and Gavin “I made £750k from Globo - Burnell infamy – and Optiva.

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2682 days ago

Breaking: Novum aspires to be the bucket shop of choice: Beaufort Corporate broking team set to sign this morning

It is not yet a done deal but my sources tell me that the corporate broking team led by Jon "for 5% I will raise cash for any old crap" Bellis from shamed Belfort Securities, now in administration, has this very morning just arrived at Novum Securities.

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3062 days ago

Cloudtag - why the shares are suspended: a ghastly silence from Novum, here is the sordid detail

Why were Cloudtag (CTAG) shares suspended yesterday? I answered that in part HERE but can now add more detail. Welcome to the ghastly and murkeyand sordid world of T+10 placings.

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3062 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bonus Ouzo Photo Bearcast: Cloudtag, the fraudsters and the morons - it is downfall day for you

I waited until 10 AM before drinking a bit of my father's ouzo in celebration of the Cloudtag (CTAG) take-down described earlier HERE. That is the sort of restrained guy I am. Boy does the ouzo - pictured below - taste great and its only 51 days and I shall be back in Greece for a lot more. Today has been a 100% vindication for The Sheriff of AIM and my fellow bears and the Bulletin Board Morons and fraudsters are now in undignified retreat. I discuss what happens next, have a few new revelations and a few lessons the morons will, no doubt, not learn in this bonus podcast.If you are client of Novum stuffed into today's placing I explain how you can get your cash back.

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