The New Junk Email

[packbat]

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!

Comments

[annechen67.livejournal.com]

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.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I barely look at the subject lines. I only notice because when I go through the Junk Mail folder on my school email, Apple Mail often misses a few with its own junk mail detector.

...tawdry Victorian prose? I should start keeping my eyes open!

even better

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: even better

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Per-zactly! They're early-reader suckers, indeed!