[Congressman Billybob]

I'm sure I state a complaint that most (all) Freepers have also experienced. I just decided to use my column as a soap box against these scammers.

John / Billybob

[cbkaty]

Seems that there is money to be made in a email filter that actually works... I'd buy one...

[DB]

Bump for later read.

[Calpernia]

pump and dump

[nickcarraway]

Welcome to the digital boiler room!

How many people actually buy these things based on an email with a nonsense headline?

[Ben Mugged]

Any company that allows its name to be advertised via spam deserves to be boycotted. Yes and that includes Viagra.

[Alberta's Child]

I've experienced a couple of cases involving a different type of stock swindle . . . A person calls on the phone when you're not home and leaves a personal message for someone you've never heard of (which leads you to believe they simply had the wrong number). The message contains a veiled reference to a "hot stock" -- usually a company that the person leaving the message claims to be working for. The message goes something like this . . .

"Hey Sally, it's Kim -- just wondering what's up with you. I gotta cancel our dinner plans for tomorrow, since I'm working on a new project for So-And-So Corp. that really looks like it's going somewhere, and I'll be in the office late reviewing the sales projections, yada-yada-yada. Call me tonight and I'll tell you all about it!"

[SteveMcKing]

There really ought to be a managed investment plan for conservatives, something in the billions that can be used for political muscle. Democrats have the entitlement state to use on their side, basically the whole government.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'd never touch an spammed stock - I'm too busy helping Dr Mbombo Obutu of Nigeria with a GUARANTEED SAFE TRANSACTION that will make me $$$!!!

[OpusatFR]

This may be harsh, but for anyone to invest without due diligence is courting disaster.

Greed over responsibility...

Ya gets what ya deserve sometimes..

[A message]

Go get em John.

I get these spams all the time.

We should be able to file a class action for all the worn out finger tendons as a result of having to hit the delete button.

[Bahbah]

I deleted about 10 of these this morning from my bulk email. I never even open them. If it sounds to good to be true....

[Larry Lucido]

Deep Earth Resources, Inc., with a “Current Price of $0.008" and a “Short Term Target Price of $0.07.” That’s not a misprint. This stock is less than a penny.

I can afford one share. Send my $0.062 profit to my home address.

[jdm]

These are pretty good (been following this guy's stocks since December 2005, and he's spot on about 8 out of 10 times):

http://smartstockinvestment.blogspot.com/

http://pennystockpick.blogspot.com/

[Izzy Dunne]

I started getting these about 4-5 months ago. I just put my Junk Mail Preferences back to "training" for a week, and now they go directly where the belong, in the JUNK MAIL folder.

The down side is that I've missed 15-20 winning Euro-Lottery drawings in that same time...

[Billthedrill]

Oh, don't be silly. If it wasn't true they'd never allow it on the Internet.

[Jaysun]

Those that target me seem to think that I need a larger penis and a better mortgage rate, not investment advice. But as a rule of thumb it's always a bad idea to invest in stocks based on someone else's claim of future gains.

Those that have legitimate reasons to believe that a stock will increase in value tend to keep it to themselves.

[Grampa Dave]

Someone must have sold my email to these bastards.

In about two weeks starting three weeks ago, I was receiving 5 to 6 of these scams per day. My blocker seems to sort out most of them and send them to the slow moving trail to be disposed of.

[Nateman]

I've been getting 10 of these a week for years. Wish there was a way for my service provider to send back everything that comes from that source.

[gondramB]

My basic philosophy is that if it comes in spam or junk mail i never buy it no matter what it is. This greatly simplifies things.

[canuck_conservative]

Oh boy! A company with 200% return in only a short period of time and no risk! ...



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