Oddly enough, the firm who sold me the shares, Eden Brown Group, have not vanished off the face of the earth as I would have expected, and will still answer their phones, what they won't do though, is give any kind of definite information about Encryption Technologies. The Australian Securites and investments people confirm there is a company using this name, but I have no way of knowing if it is the same company I am invested in as there was no registered company number in the prospectus. It gets more complicated by the fact that so many countries seem to play a part. The share cert says it is covered by Canadian law, the firm that sold the shares is in Barcelona, ETC itself seems to have connections with Australia, the USA and Russia - I mean where do I start?