Jezsta Web Productions wrote:

> "Big Bill" <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:02b4e2dmoleemf6hm2llfpn1afqakrfjut@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:00:02 +0200, Borek
>> <m.borkowski@delete.chembuddy.these.com.parts> wrote:
>>
>>>Have you seen that? I have received it several times in the last weeks.
>>>Mail looks like info sent by eBay to someone selling laptop (or something
>>>similar). There is a link to the auction - but url is not that of eBay,
>>>but some AdSense account incrementation. As I understand it the idea is
>>>that you will click just to see the auction out of curiosity - instead of
>>>being sent to eBay you take place in AdSense fraud.
>>>
>>>Best,
>>>Borek
>>>
>>>PS Is there a verb "to ebay smth"?
>>
>> I get sent maybe two dozen phony ebay emails a day.
>
> I get eBay, PayPal, and many banks that I don't even have an account with
> fake emails.:-) I have yet to figure out the stock ones. I really don't
> know why those are sent out.


Pump and dump.

You buy a load of shares in a small cap. Send out a billion or two emails
saying they are going to go through the roof. A few dozen fall for it and
buy some shares, pushing the price up (as it's a small cap) and then you
sell.


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Brian Wakem
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