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Spam suspects charged over $4.6m share con

SurfMan

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...

Dillon Pyron

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.

Anonymous Coward

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/

Anonymous Coward

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.