Crap Tips for Stocks & Shares

[Frankie Price]

There is an e-mail scam which sends out e-mails about top tips for cheap shares in the hope that loads people will invest and send the price up. (More details available if anyone wants)
The scam is that once the price rises the originators of the scam sell all their shares and the the price drops but they leave with a profit.
It is not illegal but my problem is I am now getting loads of these e-mails a week.
They are from various addresses and are not picked up as spam.
They are not causing any virus problems but are just a pain in the arse.
Does anyone know how to stop or block them?
Must have got my e-mail address from my business cards at exhibitions etc.
They are coming through on my work dial up e-mail when I use it via hotel room phone extensions etc while away. Its not the size of each one it is just the volume of them that takes up time.
Anyone got experience of these things?

[Lou]

Like this?

If not, just work with one page. Do your work on monitors similar to ones your co-workers will use to get the best visual feedback.
Get a CMS system with a built-in HTML editor.
If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. They display differently, especially in the location of graphics. You can put some sort of sign in your yard for people to see your website address and slogan as they drive by.
I used to work for one of the trading post publications and I know they are a great way to advertise.
Our people are increasingly traveling and they will need the resources.
You don't need to enter filenames to describe your resource, just a simple understandable resource name. These are just a few examples of things that are very important to consider, and are just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Professional webhosting without any form of banners is available for as little as the price of a coffee per month!
Obsolete pages can be culled, and gaps in the collection can be easily noticed. Besides they can see just how good and how neat and tidy your business looks from your pictures!
But it's not impossible.
Of course, if you are operating a local business and you do want people to contact you directly then putting personal information on your card may be what you want to do.
If you post to the web, all resources and the site itself need to be in one master folder, so that it can be uploaded to a web host with all links intact. These trading post papers get into the hands of thousands of people!
In the end, choose what you feel comfortable with, and know for sure that your web host will support. With online communities, you can build up your reputation for your company.
For instance, Browsers readily display HTML, TXT, JPG, PNG, GIF file types.
If your Resource Site is only one page, select accordingly. If your Resource Site is only one page, select accordingly. You don't need to enter filenames to describe your resource, just a simple understandable resource name. And it is obviously true in case of starting a business. For this reason, employing the services of a webdesigner may be a prefered alternative. Having the tabbing available on your resource site is a very nice feature.
This simply can not be accomplished though an RPF that asks for a general concept. Using your property is a great website promotion offline. Examples of files not readily viewed in a browser: Autocad formats such as DWG or DXF. Get a CMS system that tracks that too. Government, financial, and education websites are especially vulnerable to compliance violations. Another traffic-generating website promotion offline is with clothing. A major retailer was recently sued because their website was not compliant for viewing by handicapped web surfers. The most popular option nowadays seems to be a combination of PHP and MySQL, which can be support by any modern Linux host. Linking to sites like these can actually hurt your ranking in engines like Google.
In our local publications they offer a page on the back that you can put an ad in a special section that only costs a dollar per week. If you upload the same folder to a web server and pointed a URL at resource-site.
Finally, be sure to regularly check for broken links - both within your site, and those links that go to other sites. The new webmaster to be simply follows a few simple instructions to install someone else's code onto a web hosting account.
Multilingual web sites and merely translating the existing site into other languages is not a good marketing decision.

Ooops - that just gave the footer...hang on...like that!

[abucksdiver]

Yep, I get the odd few through my spam filters. I usually just submit them to our Spam analysis team.
They are considered spam, but they keep changing them so that thay have few "spam-like attributes"

(But then my company do make anti spam/anti virus products.... )

Andrew

[Scubee]

I get about 6 a day. I have figured out the email address they are being addressed to, and it is one which was on a (now defunct) website, which had automatic forwarding on it.

They are usually headed up with the title along the lines of 'important please read'.- which, in my view, is a cue to hit the delete button!

As I had identified this address, I have set up a rule in outlook which deletes them strainght away, but does cause confusion if i click 'yes' to the 'new mail has been received would you like to read it now?' message.

Are people really daft enough to fall for this?

[Frankie Price]

Yes Lou, exactly that. I have probably had that actual one.

[The Purist]

Thunderbird's spam filter seems to be doing a good job of spotting them and consigning them to the junk folder.

[CotoChris]

Been getting a lot of these recently. I now send my e-mails via Gmail which catches most of them out. I also use Cloudmark Spamnet which is very effective. I get some 100 spam a day.

Only an idiot would take this advice by spam e-mails, unlikely it would affect stock values at all. Also they tend to be American based, great fat of use for most Yd'ers who don't live there.

[Brick]

I'd heard that people are using these types of emails to affect share prices and make quick gains on the stock market... I wouldn't try buying the shares recommended, but I think they have enough impact to make the original senders a fair amount of cash. Pick a cheap stock, buy lots, hype it over spam and then sell when the price climbs...

[EdHornby]

Share tips from an internet site - c'mon guys we're not that daft are we?

[nickb]

If this works for the spammers, it'll work for you too; providing you dump the stock before they do.

Or am I missing something here....?

Has anybody taken the time to see what happens to the stock they're ramping?