On March 8 the US Securities and Exchange Commission annonunced a 10-day trading suspension for securities of 35 companies quoted on the Pink Sheets quotation service. The suspensions aims at protecting the public from fraudulent stock price manipulation by stock spammers.
All of these stocks have been advertised to millions of email users via pam, [...]
Entries from March 2007
SEC takes action against stock spammers
March 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: spam
A tale of two abuse departments
March 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
In the last two days I was in contact with two abuse departments at webhosters. Though the reasons for contacting them were similar, I came away with impressions that were as opposite as could be. I called because of two websites, both highly illegal. Both were advertised in spam and I encountered them when checking [...]
Tags: spam