Stock Spam: A Classic Scam

The "pump 'n' dump" stock scam has been around since the inception of stock sales. Today, however, after a series of fumbles by amateurs, serious Internet criminals are taking this scam to new levels, deploying it through images, PDFs, botnets and more. In this whitepaper you will learn more about the criminals’ sophisticated tactics. Plus, see how one particular stock scam in 2007 all started from a simple e-card to an unsuspecting victim in Florida, and how it played out for thousands of people, those with the superior protection offered by a MessageLabs Web Security Services solution, and those without.
 
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In the whitepaper, you will learn about:

   1. “Pump ‘n’ dump” stock scam is when somebody buys shares at a cheap price and promotes them to anyone who will listen as “the next big thing”.

   2. The sophisticated spamming tactics that today’s organized criminals are using to deploy stock scams.

   3. How MessageLabs Web Security Services offer superior protection against stock spam.