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Pump and Dump?
Just out of curiousity, for the past year, between my school email and personal email, I have recieved about 1000 emails recommending a stock. I realize this is a scam and a pump and dump sceme, but anyone have some further information? FOr example do people actually fall for this ( I would have to say yes considering they are pretty persistant)? How do they get my email ( my school email is used only for career orientated purposes)? Do these comapnies exist ( I checked one out of curiousity and yahoo.finance could not find it)? Just a random thought........
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Re: Pump and Dump?
Back in the day (1997-2000) you could join certain groups through yahoo that were all about pump n dump. They would say, "OK on Monday at 10:00AM we're sending an e-mail of this weeks hot stock." So at 10:00 AM everyone gets the e-mail and volume goes up 10x more than normal so the stock starts showing up on all kinds of major financial sites as a hot-mover. Other people get suckered in thinking something is going to be announced and then everyone who bought at 10:00 AM starts dumping for a profit. I never actually bought any stock but I'd watch the tickers when I got the e-mails. Typical movements were from between 1% and 20% before it went flat again.
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Re: Pump and Dump?
this is definitely not legal.
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Not sure if any groups still do that at all or if was even legal. [/ QUOTE ] between my two email accounts, i get about 8 emails about a hot stock about to move. They are tricky too with different emails for each one and a eye catching subject |
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Re: Pump and Dump?
They prosecuted a young underage kid who made something like $400k doing this a few years back. There was a big story on it. Maybe 60 Minutes?
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