Stock scammer gets coal for the holidays
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| In increase in spam e-mail emanating from bot nets has partially been
| due to bulk email messages touting stocks as part of a typical scheme
| to drive up prices. Studies have shown that stock spam can result
| in an increase in stock price, bumping up the value of volatile
| over-the-counter stocks by 1.5 to five per cent.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/sec_freezes_stock_scammer_accounts/
Maybe Microsoft ought to gather mail client statistics and show that 99% of
all E-mail comes from the Outlook family (86 billion SPAM per day, and
constantly rising). They do, after all, count DDOS attacks/attempts and SPAM
scripts in Web stats 'studies' (just one among many deliberate deficiencies
that are currently being discussed).
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