Pump-And-Dump Stock Spammers Made $20 Million

from the nice-work-if-you-can-get-it dept

Well, we already knew that pump-and-dump stock spam scams worked for the spammers, but we weren’t aware of just how well they worked. Apparently a group of pump-and-dump spammers made out to the tune of $20 million before they were caught. Of course, unlike in some cases, these scammers involved the executives of the companies they were hyping up — though, it’s unclear to what extent those executives understood what the scammers were planning to do.

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Paul says:

dot dot dot

“Well, we already knew that pump-and-dump stock spam scams worked for the spammers, but we weren’t aware of just how well they worked.”

Well then you don’t read the news very often or pay much attention to this kind of thing?

This is an OLD STORY, the only thing NEW about it is that they are going to be sentenced in the next few months for it.

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