I found this article at Brendon Swanson’s blog, describing how Spam is on the rise. Here is the excerpt straight from Brendon :
It’s official. The mob has moved to the internet. Apparently all of those stock alerts and penis enlargement spam messages you get in your in-box every two minutes are coming from hired guns. Obviously, not literally. But kind of.
Apparently, pump-and-dump stock scams work over the Internet. I didn’t know anyone was dumb enough to fall for this crap, but I’ve been proven wrong for the first time ever. Who needs marketing when pushing your product illegally works just fine. Especially when you don’t really even have a product.
Here’s the real story, done well: THE DIGITAL MAFIA
