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Stockvolcano.com and Shotpak (SHTP): Troubling Partnership

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

Here’s an outfit running advertising on the front page of WSJ.com. It’s called Stockvocano.com: "bringing stocks before they erupt.:"  Holy cow.

The featured stock at Stockvolcano is a firm called Shotpak (SHTP.PK). The company "has revolutionized the single serve RTD (Ready To Drink) alcohol category by introducing single shots of flavored liqueur and straight spirits in lightweight and durable plastic pouches." Amazing.

A look at the company’s SEC filings turns up only one from 2/8/2005. Pinksheets.com shows no financial information available for the company.

The company has about one press release a day, most about coverage from penny stock websites: boonmarket.com, aheadofthebulls.com, OTCpicks.com, shazamstocks.com, and wallstreetstockreview.com.

And, by the way: StockVolcano.com has been compensated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and payment of all advertising & marketing fees, for coverage of Shotpak, Inc. by Deluth Venture Capital Partners, LLC. a third party non-affiliate of SHTP.

Gee, sounds like a great investment.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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