Spam Alert: Pump & dumpers devise new tricks. By John Stokdyk

Psssst! Have you heard about Cana Petroleum yet?

"Trey Mcmahon" wrote me an upbeat email recently to let me know that the oil company's share price was set to shoot up on the back of a huge publicity campaign. But then I also got emails from Stella, Gonzalo, Bridgette, Irma, Suzanne, Lloyd, Tracie etc etc...

Coincidentally, The Guardian published an article by Danny Bradbury explaining how these pump & dump spam mails were becoming the most prevalent form of online scam.

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