Comments on: What to do with All that Stock Spam http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/what-to-do-with-all-that-stock-spam Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Stock Spam http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/what-to-do-with-all-that-stock-spam#comment-249224 Stock Spam Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:25:44 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/?p=1391#comment-249224 Stock spam is simply a high-tech version of the classic stock market scam called the pump and dump scheme: Promoters send millions of e-mail messages at a time promoting "can't miss" stock tips. Enough recipients inexplicably buy in, the price soars and then the spammers sell off their shares at the top of bubble. You can try reporting the spam to the SEC but it probably won't do much. Stock spam is simply a high-tech version of the classic stock market scam called the pump and dump scheme: Promoters send millions of e-mail messages at a time promoting “can’t miss” stock tips. Enough recipients inexplicably buy in, the price soars and then the spammers sell off their shares at the top of bubble.

You can try reporting the spam to the SEC but it probably won’t do much.

]]> By: Timmer http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/what-to-do-with-all-that-stock-spam#comment-8916 Timmer Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:24:09 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/?p=1391#comment-8916 For pump & dump stock spam, probably better to forward it to the SEC, enforcement@sec.gov. For pump & dump stock spam, probably better to forward it to the SEC, enforcement@sec.gov.

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