• More Penny Stock Spam – NPYC And PPTL

    The latest penny stock pump-and-dump spam to hit both my e-mail in-box and my “real” mailbox are for two penny stocks with the symbols NPYC and PPTL. NPYC was touted by the usual postcard-type mailer that arrived here a couple of weeks ago (click for larger images): As you can see from the chart below…

  • Hate Spam? Spam them right back!

    This is not the first time I have written on this particular topic. If spam bothers you as much as it bothers me, then maybe you should start doing what I have been doing for a while. Spam them right back! As you may know, the vast majority of spam you are likely to receive…

  • Beware of Pink Sleaze From Pat Haines At N.M.E.

    As you can see from the pictures below, I recently received an ‘Important Delivery Letter’ with an ‘Official Notice’ in the mail. I am a skeptical person and always suspect that there is more to the story when I see something like this. There is, however, that little nagging doubt in the back of my…

  • Internet Advertising — Now You’ve Just Gone Too Far!

    Advertising on the Internet is a fact of life. Just like with television, newspapers and magazines, advertising pays the bills or at least helps pay the bills. Before I had my own web site and saw the view from this side of the fence, I had always hated ads on web sites. At one time…

  • Investment Advisors Just Won’t Quit

    There seems to be an almost limitless supply of “investment advisors” sending me e-mail lately. I am seeing these penny stock spam-scam messages seem to be arriving more frequently and the losers that are trying to pump up GAPJ stock must be getting worried since the stock is has just been floundering around and doing…

  • Investment Advisors Coming Out of The Woodwork

    The stock spam-scam messages are continuing at a pace I have not seen for quite a while. The losers sending out the GAPJ “alerts” must be getting quite desperate since I am receiving them almost daily and the stock continues to do nothing except hold or drop a little. I hope they lose their shirts!…

  • Two More Pump-And-Dumpers

    Here are the latest two pump-and-dump stock scam e-mail mesages I have received. The first is for a company called Phinder Technologies, Inc. (PHDTF). I happened to check the chart to see just how hard this stock ran Monday (yesterday), and was very surprised (NOT!) to see that the only direction it ran in was…

  • 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…

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