Spam suspects charged over $4.6m share con
Two Texans have been charged with securities fraud and money laundering offences over a pump-and-dump email stock scam. The case follows an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the illegal use of pump-and-dump junk mails to promote the sale of at least 13 low-value stocks between May 2005 and …
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Will exist
How do you make 4.2 mln?? Well, ask the people that buy stocks through spam... As long as people do this, spam will remain forever...
faxes and suckers
I get more junk faxes with these than I can count. I send one copy to the SEC and another to a firm that tracks down junk faxes for me. So far I've made about $4500 on them. But it's mostly the insurance and travel schemes.
There's one born every minute. You can't con and honest man.
SEC has lots more stock spammers to catch
I get more stock spam than ever these days.
I looking forward to them catching the spammers emailing all these pdf attachments, though I assume they are read even less than the normal stock spam.
A site for following the latest stock spams:
http://www.spamnation.info/stocks/index.php
Report US stock spam to enforcement[at]sec[dot]gov
A website running a paper portfolio of stock spam - with the expected results
http://www.spamstocktracker.com/
Who is reeled in?!
Getting your stock tips from junk spam is like gettings your news from "news of the world"... in that case you deserve to be lied to.
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