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Stock Spam and Pump-and-Dump Schemes

Listed below is a gallery of unsolicited email messages containing “get rich quick” stock offers, many of them involving shares of so-called penny stocks. We are not the source of these messages and we don’t send them! We just collect the ones we receive and document them here for the benefit of others. (Read more about how these schemes work, or see the information provided by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.) Please note that in many cases the companies named in the spam may not even be aware that the spamming is taking place: they may be the victims of disreputable third-party stock promoters. There are many reliable sources of investment advice available on the web which provide further information.

If you’ve lost money in an online investing scheme you may wish to contact an attorney or financial advisor in your state or country.

NOTE: Since we created this site we have gotten a number of bullying and threatening messages from people associated with some of the stock promotions listed below. We ignore all these messages. One supposed company representative wrote, “We are fowading [sic] your website to our attourney [sic] for immediate legal action!” Do you think any legitimate company would send an illiterate message like that? Do legitimate companies send messages with lines like: “This st0ck is rea4y to ro11!” (Those deliberate misspellings are purposely designed to evade spam filters.) Now, is it possible that some legitimate companies have been suckered by advertisers who send out spam in their name? Yes, that’s possible, and may often be the case. If that has happened, those companies should be posting disclaimers on their own websites, cutting their losses, and moving on. The spam has already been sent to thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and it cannot be retracted. Trying to threaten people who expose shady practices only proves that many of these stock promoters are nothing but sociopathic bullies and con artists. Any repeated attempts at harrassment will be immediately reported to the cyberfraud division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gallery of Stock Spam · 2007

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