Reports of unsolicited and highly suspicious investment advice.
Not Currently Updated
I started documenting stock spam in October 2005, but in November 2005, the quantity of stock spam became so large that I put it on hold. In mid-May 2006 I decided to take it up again on a trial basis, limiting reports to one per day per stock, but I gave up again in mid-June 2006 as the workload was still excessive relative to the importance of the issue. Others continued to do a fine job of it -- see the links at left -- but according to statistics from spamnation, the problem peaked in 2007 and dropped off abruptly in 2008, becoming a mere trickle in 2009/10. I'm leaving this blog online as a historical reference, but I have no further plans to update it, and I've disabled comments because nobody has tried to post anything but spam comments here in a long time.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
I did well on this
This is image-only spam pumping "Art4Love Inc." (ALVN).
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Are you out of this stock or are you still in, will it go up?
I don't trade: I just note that certain stocks get pumped via spam. This is spam I received. It's probably indicative of pump and dump. The subject "I did well on this" was the subject of the email in which it came: that's how this blog works (or worked, now that I've given up on stock-spam spotting for the time being).
This blog is an offshoot of iDeceive, which documents deceptive Internet activity. For more general information, please go to that blog. All entries posted here are stock-related spams I have received. Such spams are attempts to spread rumours about a stock, usually as a deliberate attempt to inflate the stock price in a "pump and dump" campaign. In some cases, however, the company in question has stupidly hired a spammer to promote the stock. Don't take advice from spam.
2 comments:
Are you out of this stock or are you still in, will it go up?
I don't trade: I just note that certain stocks get pumped via spam. This is spam I received. It's probably indicative of pump and dump. The subject "I did well on this" was the subject of the email in which it came: that's how this blog works (or worked, now that I've given up on stock-spam spotting for the time being).
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