[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

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On 11 Jul 2007, Jason Clifford outgrape:
> The fact that these "penny stock" scams have been around for a very long 
> time rather suggests that they will continue to work for a long time yet. 

Since, oh, 1720? (OK, so the South Sea Bubble didn't quite have the same
modus operandi, but the idea was the same: hype to the skies, cash in,
move on.)

> Spamming is just the latest, and cheapest, means of propagating the scam.

Quite so. (Personally when I'm trying to be controversial I muse that I
don't think the Bubble Act should ever have been repealed. It was the
start of a road that ended with the evil stupidity which is corporate
personhood...)

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