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BIDS

BREAKING: The Bidstack smearer of Tom Winnifrith exposed as a gender fluid contact of James Draper

Yesterday, ShareProphets discussed a defamatory website about, myself, Tom Winnifrith that was put online on Friday and appeared to be the work of a supporter of Bidstack (BIDS), the AIM listed company run by Lyin' James Draper.  We rebutted its clearly spurious allegations and condemned is appeal to anti-semitism. The author of the website claims to be a female investigative journalist. We can reveal that this is a,lie, who the real author is and how he (not she) is trying to hide his links to Lyin' James. 

The website in question, AIM Corruption, appears legitimate on the surface, but if one looks closely, is designed for anonymity. It was hosted on Wordpress.com, a free service avaiiable to anyone with an email address. The email given used Protonmail, a free email service from Switzerland that prides itself on anonymity and shelter from all but Swiss courts. The purported name of the author was given as  Idella Taggart, an "Investigative Journalist within the Financial Sector." There is no evidence Ms Taggart has written anything, anywhere, on any subject other than this.

Star reader C contacted ShareProphets and told us that, while the author had apparently tried to scrub all real names from the page, she wasn't clever enough. One of the things missed was embedded information in a photo created for the site. 

When one uses professional software like Microsoft Word for writing or Adobe Photoshop for photo editing, the software embeds information in the files created,  for copyright and editing purposes. While it can be omitted or falseified, professional software errs on the side of business uses. It's rare that a legitimate business does not want to be associated with their work.

At Chris' urging, we took a look at the web page and found this.

Later on that day that schoolboy coding error had been removed as had one other reference to Mike Turner in the underlying code - which we have also saved!  So who is Mike Turner who is so rude about The Sheriff of AIM, the wicked Israelis and their devious tricks to make money, Waseem Shakoor, the truth etc?

We went to LinkedIn and found a Mike Turner, who works in tech. We also saw that he made a comment on a post made by James Draper of Bidstack. We also took a screen shot of that post.

Turner  likes James and Bidstack, that's for sure. Later yesterday we went again to look at his LinkedIn profile, and found this: 

 

 And his Bidstack comments on LinkedIn? Down the memory hole, as well.

That means we will never know if Turner and Draper were connected on LinkedIn and how close their relationship was. What do you think Turner was trying to hide?

LinkedIn has a pest in a company called Rocket Reach. It uses a technique called 'screenscraping' to glean info from LinkedIn to put on their own page, without input or permission from the owner. Here is Rocket Reach's page today. 

 

Mike Turner has been active on the help forums for Wordpress for quite awhile. Here's a comment he made last week that we saw yesteday.

 

Here is that same page later in the day. Jeepers what is Mike Turner trying to hide? Maybe this is part of his transitioning to Idella the Journalist? Or maybe Mike doesn't want folks to realise he uses Wordpress?

 

That new picture, by the way, is of US Congressman Mike Turner for Ohio's 10th district. 

But check out that username, @miketurnermk. 

Here it is used on ADVFN in a comment about, er........ Bidstack. You reckon the Congressman is a shareholder or might the gender fluid defamer have a bit of a problem as he tries to cover his tracks? The cover up is often the real scandal.

 

Here is a Bidstack story on the website Pocket Gamer. Look who has a comment to correct some minor corporate misinformation.

Mike Turner also had a great experience with Bidstack Games, as you can see here: 

Readers may notice that the avatar on the correcting Pocket Gamer post and the Facebook rave are identical.

Remember the photo that had the name 'Mike Turner' that was embedded in the first place? It's now been scrubbed as well. Someone has learned something new! fear not, we have records.

Far from this post exposing AIM Corruption being the result of work by a female investigative journalist it is now shown to be the work of a sad man from Northampton who owns shares in Bidstack (BIDS) and thinks he will stop them going down the pan with a defamatory blog. And who is now desperately trying to cover up the trail of breadcrumbs leading from Northampton to this disgusting blog to James Draper. The credibility of Idella/Mike (once again we wish you good luck with the gender reassignment process) is in tatters.

The issue now is whether Mike worked alone? Why, we wonder, is he so keen to scrub social media links with Lyin' James Draper.

We are nice guys so might not contact Mike's employer to ask if it is happy him spending his work time on producing such filth. But if we are bored we might just do that. But that will be the extent of our retribution. Others mentioned in the article, which is clearly defamatory, are far less nice than we are and we have passed them all the evidence they need to identify Idella ahead of a meeting with their lawyers tomorrow.

Meanwhile we have pressed Bidstack's Nomad at SPARK and AIM Regulation to establish the extent, if any, of the contacts between James Draper and his gender fluid shareholder, in the run up to the creation of this disgusting blog. 

This special investigation and the detailed rebuttal of the original blog are outside of our paywall so that everyone can see who the good guys on AIM are and who are the villains. They can now see who exposes lying, deceit, fraud and malfeasance and who engages in it and defends their crimes by harassing the ShareProphets website and its writers in this way. Regulators like the FRC openly praise our work. You either support financial crime or you oppose it. There is no middle ground. 

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That Was the Week that Was 7 Days of ShareProphets

Friday »

Bear
New Sharestock speaker announced: the Dark Destroyer is back! Book Now!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 15:53
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Henry Gewanter does pick 'em, why bears matter and Andrew Bell & Jensen Huang, the common link
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 15:53
RBN
Robinson plc – after previously another profit warning, now announces a “Directorate change”…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 13 November 2026, 13:58
AMRQ
Panmure Liberum on Amaroq – I just do not get its maths
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 12:39
Boom
Davion Healthcare PLC a $306m Nasdaq IPO on October 22, 90% down already – have we exported a complete turd ( or worse) to the USA?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 12:11
DFS
DFS Furniture – “full-year profit expectations… carry a wider range of potential outcomes”, but how likely really now is a good outcome?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 13 November 2026, 11:48
Bear
Video: Why This Is ‘Much Worse’ Than The 1970s – And That’s Good For Gold
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 10:53
MPAL
Medpal AI and the death jabs – I know it’s in the Daily Mail but it might be right!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 10:53
AMRQ
Amaroq: a few thoughts on the idea of a dividend
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 08:19
Bitcoin
Bitcoin holders: tell me why Peter Schiff is wrong as my 96 year old father in law outperforms Dominic Frisby by 23%
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 13 November 2026, 08:11

Thursday »

TRIG
Renewables Infrastructure Group – quarterly update and dividend, remains an income Buy
  • By Tom Winnifrith & Steve Moore
  • 12 November 2026, 16:21
ING
Ingenta – noting customer attrition, “Strategic Update and Directorate Change”…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 12 November 2026, 16:08
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: in Amaroq we trust & AIM's most hated CEO
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 15:01
APTA
Aptamer – the boardroom pigs forced to backpedal on option greed, well done Nicholas Slater
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 14:23
VID
Videndum – “now expects FY26 revenue and adjusted EBITDA to be broadly similar to FY25” trading warning…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 12 November 2026, 13:57
EDGE
FalconEdge – its what it does NOT say that makes today’s (shite) results so misleading
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 13:20
Gold
Video: The Money Supply To Go ‘Parabolic’ & The Gold Renaissance
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 12:12
ECP
Eight Capital Partners: letter to Robert Moore Senior Partner of Bright Grahame Murray
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 11:43
DOCS
Dr. Martens – interims emphasise “Strategic and Operational progress being made against a challenging backdrop”, but what about financially?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 12 November 2026, 11:28
TXP
The £154m Touchstone Energy fake bid scammer sentenced – there is no downside to white collar crime in London today
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 12 November 2026, 10:47

Wednesday »

SOLI
Solid State – emphasises “a significant milestone” order, faster growth to follow?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 11 November 2026, 16:20
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Arguing with foul and menacing scam window cleaners
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 15:46
TW
Taylor Wimpey cuts guidance but there is more woe to come across the housebuilding sector
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 14:32
Bear
A May bear dossier on Nvidia: the CEO banging a Chinese spy is not the real China problem
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 14:00
FORT
Forterra – interims having emphasised “no change to FY expectations”, how credible was that?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 11 November 2026, 13:39
KEFI
3 Questions that Kefi should be answering
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 13:22
ECP
The Italian Job: Eight Capital Partners spends €7.55 million to buy a joke business from …itself, what is Liam Murray smoking?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 12:47
QED
Quadrise – an agreement non-extension due to “projects and volume requirements” not confirmed…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 11 November 2026, 11:27
PANR
Call me Mystic Meg (again) Pantheon Resources suspended as £5m placing at just 7p underway
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 11:07
OPTI
BREAKING: Has Optibiotix really received 2 takeover approaches or is Steve O’Hara just a really naughty boy?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 11 November 2026, 09:33

Tuesday »

XSG
Xeros Technology – “developments in its Commercial Laundry sector”, attempted ramptastic?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 10 November 2026, 16:25
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: should Andrew Webley come to Sharestock again & will bitcoin have collapsed by then?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 16:01
ZOO
Zoo Digital – interims emphasise “Return to growth, materially improved profitability and cash generation”, but how significantly and sustainably?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 10 November 2026, 14:27
EDGE
Laughable & not sustainable
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 14:24
MAC
Marechale – how about an update on the $118m Aussie Coral spoof?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 12:41
Gold
Video: The US Needs A ‘Much Higher’ Gold Price – Here’s Why
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 12:08
ABDP
AB Dynamics – full-year results, what does “Repositioning with purpose” mean financially?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 10 November 2026, 11:39
JET2
AIM will lose 4.5% of its entire value in one fell swoop on December 8
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 11:07
SBTX
Skins NED appointment – not very diverse & comes with a Bixby Edwards stink
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 09:59
PRE
Now less than a month to fake sheikh day – Pensana keep the lights on placing
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 10 November 2026, 09:17

Monday »

NEXS
A stock with recovery potential again?...
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 9 November 2026, 16:49
TGP
Tekmar – “Framework agreement with NMDC Infra”, attempted ramptastic?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 9 November 2026, 16:27
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith bearcast: the cost of shagging a Chinese Spy
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 14:53
SRT
SRT Marine Systems – full-year results, how’s the match between customer receipts and supplier payments?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 9 November 2026, 14:53
RBD
Reabold Resources tries to mount the AI bandwagon as it pops, West Newton gibberish, part 2
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 12:32
SEE
Seeing Machines – “Q1 FY2027 Quarterly KPIs”. Er, is financial performance not a Key Performance Indicator?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 9 November 2026, 11:34
SBTX
Skins – where is the new NED?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 11:34
RBD
Reabold & West Newton part 1 – what about the injunction?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 11:11
DGQ
Delta Gold: £63 million AQSE window dressing
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 10:58
Crime-Scene
Fraudster Rob Terry plans stockmarket comeback – is the London Stock Exchange bent as a nine bob note?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 9 November 2026, 08:09

Sunday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Nigel's right, 4 sectors where I want little or no exposure
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 8 November 2026, 19:04
Gold
The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Has A Better Week
  • By Nigel Somerville
  • 8 November 2026, 18:01
ZTF
Zotefoams – a “strategic progress continues; full-year profit expectations unchanged” Buy
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 8 November 2026, 17:52
SOS
Sosandar – Interims A Good Effort In Difficult Times
  • By Nigel Somerville
  • 8 November 2026, 17:16
Blackboard
Visual Aid: The Countries Developing the World’s AI Models
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 8 November 2026, 13:37
Quiz
The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #371
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 8 November 2026, 10:40
Reading
Sunday Long Reads: Schooligans, Friendly Murderer, Panama Papers, Toxic Gaslighting, London Biker Café
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 8 November 2026, 10:40
Top-10
Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending November 7
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 8 November 2026, 10:39

Saturday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: another crash underway, UK house prices especially those of flats
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 7 November 2026, 16:44
BMS
Braemar – winning share tip still a buy
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 7 November 2026, 15:57
DOTD
dotDigital – full-year results, positive trading outlook Buy
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 7 November 2026, 15:10
Price-Vs-Value
ShareProphets readers tips for 2026 prize competition – (just after) end-October update
  • By Steve Moore
  • 7 November 2026, 14:00

Friday »

Collapsing-Reactor
A cartoon about Texas - Barry Downes loved it
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 17:39
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: on inflation, on Barry Downes and on being a mega bear
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 16:23
LORD
Lords Group Trading – “pleased to announce completion of amendments to the covenant packages”, BUT…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 6 November 2026, 16:23
Boom
Podcast: Tom Winnifrith & Barry Downes - the Implosion of the AI bubble
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 15:11
Gold
Video: Silver is ‘Incredible Cheap’, Futures Manipulation & The Return of Gold
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 14:46
BILN
Billington – I having questioned in April how confident to really be of trading in line with market expectations, now a “Trading Update”…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 6 November 2026, 14:29
SBAR
Sundae Bar: surely it is almost out of fiat ( again), placing ahoy?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 12:58
GEX
Georgina Energy RNS: More questions than answers, the odd use of the English language
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 12:15
CRTA
Cirata's peanuts contract renewal a pump before another bailout fund raise
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 11:46
Sinking_Ship
AIM Statistics: October was yet another poor month
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 10:21
VLRM
Valereum: I know it has six months but is there any effort to recruit a new advisor? All the Money's gone!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 6 November 2026, 09:24