On Monday 26th September 2022 I received an email from someone called “Chris Shane” with the subject:

Fwd: First Week’s Results FTA Live Trading with Tony Langley Now 8 More Spaces Released

What’s strange about it is that it was forwarded to me twice to different email addresses, one of which caught my attention immediately for reasons I won’t go into at the moment.

At the bottom of each email was an Aweber unsubscribe link and when I clicked on that it wasn’t my email details which were listed.

The email address is obscured but the letters that are shown match the email address Chris used:

Both emails contained the unsubscribe link and were forwarded to me by Chris putting my two email addresses into the BCC field.

I emailed Chris to ask him where he got my email address and he came back with a simple explanation:

“I had some emails that I had gathered over the years and thought as a nice pay it forward for Tony Langley, I would forward it out, as it includes watching him live“

On prompting him some more he claimed:

“I had rented a list some time ago and it was on there“

And then after a third prompting he gave me a tiny bit more in the way of detail:

“The email was included in the email list that I purchased/rented when I was looking to sell a gambling product when you could do that“

When I asked him to confirm where “purchased” or “rented” the list he backed off:

“Please do whatever you want too as this conversation is getting a bit long now for something that I thought would help people“

Following a further request for him to confirm where it came from he gave up:

“Please now stop emailing me and move on“

Chris had suggested I contact Tony directly but unfortunately I didn’t get any answers there. Tony knows little about Chris Shane except that he “seems like a decent fellow who is a full time trader” and “no idea how he would have got any emails to be honest“.

So I thought I would ask the world wide web if anyone has any further details?

Did you receive the email forwarded from Chris?

Do you know where Chris may have got your email address?

Do you know who Chris Shane is?

Comments welcome below, I will update as I hear further from Aweber and others.

1st Update (05/10/2022):
Tony has changed his mind. Suddenly he does know who Chris Shane is as they worked together at Shell. Chris still works there according to his LinkedIn profile. In Tony Langley’s words:

“I taught Chris Shane to trade, as l have know him for a lot of years.

He does trade full time, which means he puts in the amount of hours required to be a full time trader along side doing a full time job, as most have done including myself to be debt free, which led to me leaving my full time work for Shell.

I have helped several people at the company over the years along with hundreds of other people.“

So the original claims were not 100% correct, or some might say they were lies.