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Pump and dump spam waits for Hurricane Sandy

31
Oct
2012

Even stock scammers needed to put their plans on hold following the closure of stock markets for 2 days. In the typically worded email shown below, recipients are encouraged to buy into low-priced shares now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and trading has resumed. Interestingly, we see less topical spam than we used to. In […]

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Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams

11
Aug
2011

Just as they sound, pump-and-dump stocks are promoted (pumped) by their owners in order to inflate the price of the stocks as much as possible so that they may then be sold (dumped) before their valuation crashes back to reality. The spam for these scams tries to convince the prospective mark that the penny stock […]

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