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Increase in Pump and Dump Stock Spam

15

May

2013

In the last few weeks we have observed a drastic increase in “penny stock” spam emails. In 2011 Symantec published a blog entitled Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams, which also dealt with this type of spam.Penny stocks, also known as cent stocks, are shares in small companies that trade at low prices, […]

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Peny-stocks spams.again

19

Nov

2012

We all hoped about 5 years ago that this is over: after email-spam advertising penny-stocks, improved spam-campaigns using images, then trials to beat OCR detection with noise in and angle changes of the images, and finally closing with PDF-based penny-stock-spam. The latest version of this pest has titles like “The best is yet to come”, […]

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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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