We have proven without any doubt in The Fan Email Confidence Trick that Martin Armstrong in his public blog is manufacturing fake client emails praising his services. He effectively executes the function of the Shill, without the need to employ one. This is possible because of the anonymity of the authors of these fake emails.

Here we demonstrate how he takes this concept one step further.

Again, he acts as a shill, praising the qualities of his own services, posing as a client, or as someone who has good knowledge of the Socrates system, without identifying himself.

He uses multiple public forums that are available to him free of charge. To cut a long story short, we have identified at least 300 of his shill messages in a single forum.

We start with his latest ID / user handle Gumbi.

Gumbi exposed himself as Martin Armstrong when he threatened to sue the anonymous poster AnonymousCoder for defamation. See Gumbi IS Martin Armstrong and folloing posts for the time line of events.

Martin Armstrong sent 166 messages alone using this single ID. We also know that additionally, he used at least the IDs over45 and m96. The combined message count of these identities is about 300.

over45 is a character with an evolving personality who introduces himself to the forum as someone who wants to learn about forecast arrays, then claims that Socrates saved him tons of money due to among other trades the trading of the pharma stock (Biogen BIIB) crash which he claims Socrates predicted for him, while at the same time claiming that he is not trading actively.

He then ends up threatening to sue the anonymous poster AnonymousCoder very much in line with Gumbi.



Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.

Read this blog starting at page 273 to find out more about computerized fraud.


See armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog available only to paying Socrates subscribers.


Every single defrauded person should report their case at econsumer.gov