<prompt> Human: I have a Fidelity brokerage account with some shares in a penny stock that I bought when I was young and stupid. The shares have virtually no volume they trade maybe once or twice a year and are worth 0.0001share.Im trying to close the account, but I have to get rid of the shares first. Heres the problem:1. Since the shares dont really trade, market and limit orders never fill, so I cant simply sell them and take the capital loss.2. Some brokerages will buy worthless shares from you for 0 or some trivial amount, but I spoke with Fidelity and they dont do this.3. Schwab will buy worthless shares from your account, but when I tried to transfer the shares from Fidelity to Schwab, Schwab said that they wont accept the transfer of pennyOTC shares from an external account unless my Schwab account has more than one million in assets, which mine does not.4. The company does not issue physical stock certificates Im sure the company was just a penny stock dilution scam to begin with, so I cant request the physical stock certificate and then burn it, shred it, etc.5. I considered donating the shares to some organization or charity, but Fidelity informed me that to process shares for donation, the shares need to trade semi-regularly. Furthermore, the intended recipient can always decline the donation. Fidelity said that due to the lack of trading volume, they cant process the shares for donation.6. In 2014, the SEC temporarily suspended the shares from trading and regular trading hasnt resumed since, which is a good sign that, for all practical purposes, the shares are worthless. However, the process for declaring shares abandoned and worthless is complicated, and Im not sure how to permanently surrender and relinquish all rights in the security and receive no consideration in exchange for the security per the IRS link.To be clear, Im not trying to recoup my original investment or claim a capital loss for the original value. The original investment was roughly 50 and Im perfectly happy to eat that amount and be done with it. Is there any way to get rid of these shares once and for all?EDIT: I found the responses Fidelity sent me in writing from the last time I bothered with this. In reference to removing the shares from my account: Fidelity representative: I see that this stock is still trading in the market. You are going through the correct process of entering an order to sell the position to remove it from your account. I do see that your market order has not filled. The only way we can remove the position from the account would be if it were to be stop trading and be deemed worthless. This occurs when the company state that there is no consideration that will be given to shareholders usually this is stated in the bankruptcy process.Obviously the company is never going to announce something like this. Its an empty shell. In reference to closing the account: You would be able to remove all of the cash from the account and close the associated checking account, but the Individual brokerage account would have to stay open because of the shares of HSCO. They would have to be sold or the stock declared worthless for us to be able to close the account.Hence my desire to be rid of them completely.  <response>: Thanks for posting! Youve motivated me to find a Scottrade form that should help me clear out some worthless Pink Sheet stocks from my account. 