About:

The Securities Sleuth is written by Mark McNair who is an attorney who represents investors who have suffered losses due to corporate fraud. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. McNair was an attorney at the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and prior to that, he was an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. McNair received his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and his a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, Texas, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Reviews:

• What you don't know could hurt your portfolio - The Securities Sleuth is dedicated to uncovering fraud and protecting investors. In particular, the Sleuth focuses on corporate fraud and steps investors who have been victimized by such fraud can take to recover their losses. Shareholders of Comverse Technology (NASDAQ: CMVT, BullBoards) might be running out of options . . . Read full story at http://www.termpaperslab.com/term-papers/82510.html

• Securities Sleuth, has just completed a review of Cornell Companies (NYSE:CRN), examining recent corporate announcements in light of the company's filings with the SEC. The Sleuth has spotted several serious inconsistencies between recent Company press releases, quarterly financial reports and filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission regarding its recent secondary offering . . . Read full story at http://press.arrivenet.com/technology/article.php/320164.html.

  
  

Online Investor Complaint Center; www.investingcomplaints.com

Resource guide for online investors with complaints against an online brokers.

About:

Established in January 1999 and inspired by countless victims of online brokerage service failures, the Online Investor Complaint Center is the only totally independent, public-interest investor advocacy group, resource guide, and clearinghouse dedicated to empowering current and prospective individual investors with free, continually updated online investing news, commentary, educational information, and resources, helping individual investors resolve or avoid costly problems with brokerage firms, especially online brokers, providing a safe forum where dissatisfied investors can freely, openly, and publicly express their grievances about online brokers and online investing without any fear of the personal bashing that is typical on most Internet message boards.

Quatloos; www.quatloos.com

Covers a wide variety of financial schemes and frauds.

About:

[Wikipedia]Quatloos.com is an anti-fraud website maintained by a non-profit corporation, Financial and Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc. It was founded in 2000 by Jay D. Adkisson, an attorney and stockbroker. The site contains examples of advanced fee scams, such as the 419 Scam; information on misleading anti-tax and investment scams; examples of fraudulent documents; and a large number of court decisions. Although light-hearted in tone (its basic structure is a museum with a Hall of Shame at the back) it is a serious and exhaustive resource in the area. It also contains links to various law enforcement agencies that specialize in investigating such scams. It was listed as one of PC Magazine's top 100 undiscovered web sites in 2003.

Others:

Crimes of Persuasion - Explaining how people are victimized through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes and consumer scams.

What Every Investor Should Know - Articles by the SEC are a "must read".

North American Securities Administrators Assn., Inc. - Founded in 1919, this is an organization dedicated to investor protection. They have good articles for investors on asking the right questions and avoiding fraud.

Napeague Newsletter - This is a general investment newsletter. Look for their ongoing list of "suspicious stocks". They add to the list whenever they see a stock being hyped in a suspicious manner.

Securities Fraud FYI - Homebase for a series of related sites dealing with class actions involving particular brokerage firms and investment advisors.