Pump and Dump?

[dazraf69]

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........