Spammers spreading new Wolf of Wall Street scam

  • 14 October 2014
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Posted on 14 October 2014.Millions of penny stock spam emails have been flooding inboxes, spreading a new ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ scam and inflating the stock values of a mineral deposit company, according to Bitdefender’s Antispam Lab.

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The wave started to grow last Thursday and has quickly become the largest and most successful stock spam attack of 2014, with over 3 million unique samples to date. The transactions volume reached over 1,620,000 stocks in just a couple of days after the spam wave hit, the highest registered by the company in the last half year, according to Bloomberg. Full Article

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Common sense needs to prevail. This type of emails you cannot trust, if you have stock go directly to the broker for advice this is the only sure way to avoid this type of scam.

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