David Brodbeck wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Matt Wills wrote: > > > >>Does anyone have a ruleset for catching any or all of these stock tips? > > > > > > This is a little off-topic, but how do spammers expect to make money > > from that spam? > > A lot of them are "pump and dump" schemes, I suspect. The spammer buys > a bunch of shares of some pissant penny stock, then hypes it in spam. > When a bunch of people buy it, causing the price to temporarily rise, > the spammer sells all his shares and takes a profit.
Or the spammer is only contracted by the other bad guy to spew the message, being paid $X thousand for distribution of the message Y times over Z weeks or months. I've found that forwarding FNs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] reduces such volume for a few weeks before it inevitably bounces back.
