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Archive for March, 2006

More GAPJ Spam – A Sign of A Desperate Pump-And-Dumper?

I received yet another e-mail message pumping the GAPJ stock today. That is about the fourth message I have received for this stock in just the last few days. I am wondering if this is a sign of a pump-and-dump scammer that has become desperate to move this stock up so that they or the [...]

Latest PayPal E-Mail Scams

Although they seemed to all but disappear from my e-mail for a while, I am starting to see some new PayPal scams showing up in my e-mail lately. These low-life crooks are always thinking of new twists to use in their scams to make them appear more realistic. They are still using their old familiar [...]

Pearls of Wisdom From A “Senior Investment Advisor”

Imagine my amazement to discover that I had been fortunate enough to receive another fabulous stock tip from esteemed Senior Investment Advisor Estelle Jackson. Can there be any doubt that her word is as good as money in the bank? But wait! Something here just does not seem quite right. Here is her latest stock [...]

More Penny Stock Pump And Dump

The crap keeps coming in. Instead of posting the entire e-mail messages with all the associated nonsense paragraphs (to fool the spam filters) I am just posing the images that arrived as the real “meat” of these spam-scam penny stock messages. This first one is a real winner. It is concerning a stock called CWTD [...]

New eBay Scam Messages

It’s been a while since I have seen any eBay scam messages in my inbox, but it seems I am beginning to get a new batch of them recently. These scammers are clever and they are always thinking up new and innovative ways to scam people. This most recent ones attempts to fool victims into [...]

Those Incredible Relentless Spammers

You can be sure of one thing. If there exists a method for spammers to utilize in order to make sure their crap gets delivered, they will find it! Naturally, the motivation is money, and as we all know, that’s one powerful motivator. The latest trick I am seeing them press into service is using [...]

Penny Stock Spam Mini Flood

I am continuing to receive penny stock scam-spam messages on a daily basis. Until quite recently I had not received any of these for months. Every so often it seems like the anti-spam tactics that are being used by my ISP break down and the level of spam rises a bit after seeing virtually no [...]

Spring Must Be Pump And Dump Season!

I have have noticed a substantial increase in the amount of penny stock scam-spam that has been showing up in both my e-mail inbox and my “real” U.S. Mail delivery lately. I guess spring must be the time when the pump-and-dump artists come out from under the rocks they have been hiding under during the [...]

More Stock Spam

I love posting this crap since it gives people an opportunity to get the real story on this type of spam. For the full story, check out this link. Below is the lastest “pump and dump” stock spam I received (notice the paragraph worth of nonsense at the end of the message which is probably [...]

There Are Some Things I Will Never Understand

The festering undercurrent of sociopathic tendencies that inhabit some human animals is something that has always fascinated and amazed me. Fortunately, there are only a few whose tendencies manifest themselves in ways that result in physical harm to others. The serial killers, rapists and those that decide to take a gun to work some day [...]