There are three companies I follow that I believe are outright frauds. I don't know that, and I can't prove that about them, but this is my belief. For the fun of it, though, let's compare the relative performance of these against LBSR and TMBXF, neither of which I suspect in any way of being fronts for stealing from gulible purchasers of shares.

Again, these are relative performance comparisons starting from about a year ago, not share price representations. This is why all the stocks appear to start at the same point, and then diverge over time.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=LBSR+Interactive#{%22comparisons%22:%22NMCX,CJTF,SRCH,TMBXF%22,%22comparisonsColors%22:%22#009999,#ff00ff,#9900ff,#9900ff%22,%22comparisonsWidths%22:%221,1,1,1%22,%22comparisonsGhosting%22:%220,0,0,0%22,%22range%22:%22max%22}

You will note that two of these seem to be doing better than LBSR and TMBXF, whose relative performance is closely tied, though the relative perfomance of LBSR only just recently dropped below that of TMBXF. The fifth company is dropping off the chart at the bottom but it is still very actively traded when one other of these is not.

...just goes to show that what may be slick marketing can sometimes trump facts and suppositions based science as applied by LBSR and TMBXF.