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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2006-09-22 03:14 pm
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The New Junk Email

You know how stock tip junk email has had a sudden surge in popularity? I think I figured out how it might work. See, not only are there (possibly) a few people who would believe such email tips, but there are (probably) some people who would notice these tips and say to themselves, "Hey, if I buy this before all the suckers who believe email stock tips do, I can sell it after the spike for profit!"

Devious!

[identity profile] annechen67.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I breeze right by those e-mails.

The ones that come close to getting me to read them are the ones that use tawdry Victorian prose phrases in the subject line.

even better

(Anonymous) 2006-09-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
the folks who send out the stock-tip junk emails may have bought the stock before the spam is sent, so they can dump it at a profit based on any early-reader suckers ... ^z