... methinks Barnum had a point...

Piplander -

Omelette and myself have taken over the operations while Aleccoh is on vacation. You can wire your money directly into either one of our accounts.

And I can tell that you're a man of action, so we've already earned your 200 pips for you and will add it to your balance as soon as it's in one of our accounts.

Furthermore, don't waste any time reading the last several months worth of posts on this thread. You already know all that you need to know.

Welcome aboard and enjoy the Allecoh Experience!

Piplander,
Omelette is trying to scam you ! It is I who is actually taking over for Alecoh while he is on 'vacation'. Please send your bank account info, social security number, mother's maiden name, telephone number, pin number, credit card numbers and expiration dates, all gold jewelry and anything else of value to imasucker@thieves.com

That's got me ROFLMAO!

Ok, time to close this thread Newdigital. This is getting ridiculous.

I don't see any change in tone or substance.

I am afraid that you are right !

Originally there was one thread "traders joking" but it seems that more and more threads are turning into jokes.

- except that most threads don't leave people out-of-pocket as this thread obviously has! Besides, closing the thread would leave Aleccoh (currently AWOL) nowhere to post his all-important "updates" - and you know how we look forward to them

Ah well, there's always karma...

Maybe this thread was a more successful spam but in general people who get scammed will not report their problems and I wouldn't be surprised that some people lost a significant amount of money after having being misleaded by some threads here, but they will never report it because even if they are the victims they feel bad about it.

Well, I'm a "victim" of this particular incident, and here I am... I hesitate to use the term "victim" because I went in knowing the risks were possible, although I felt them unlikely. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, so reward was (IMO) worth the risk, as Aleccoh was offering a service which I needed. Ironically enough, I left a brokerage which I though was shaky but turned out to be safe in order to move to Aleccoh. If only we had a time machine!

My biggest regret is not doing a more thorough DD, and listening to the voice in my head which urged caution. There were members who posted notes of caution, but I was too easily dissuaded by my own greed and Aleccoh's soothing words. Lesson learned.

I have come to accept there will be those who take pleasure in poking fun at the situation. I will even admit to giggling a bit at the recent joking posts, if only to laugh so as not to cry.

I would ask that members show restraint, as there are those of us with actual dollars at risk, and for whom the situation is all too real. Please leave the thread open so that those of us involved may share information easily and keep one another informed.

Thanks!