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 I'm leaving this blog online as a historical reference, but I have no further plans to update it, and I've disabled comments because nobody has tried to post anything but spam comments here in a long time.
2 comments:
I would think we are going to be seeing a lot of stock crap with China in its name. Just think, if they only sell to 1% of China's 1.3+ billion people ....
That's one way of looking at it. I'm more inclined to think that these are being targeted at westerners who think that China is the next big economic superpower. Nearly all my stock spam is sent to a really old email address, one which has been on "millions" discs for years. You'd think that old addresses would be a bad way of targeting the Chinese, since they haven't been on the 'net so long as the west.
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