Does investment spam actually sell anything?

Here’s a first thing in the morning query: Does anyone actually buy stocks, bonds, time-shares in Jersey or any other investment properties or holdings based upon spam email solicitations?

I mean, jeepers, I must get 50 of these annoying things a day, each advertising an investment opportunity I simply can’t live without.  Most of them have deceptive subject headings, of course: “You were great last night!”  “How’ve you been buddy?”  “You were absolutely right in your last message!”  “Have you heard the great news?!”  And so on and so forth — one after another after another.

My particular favorites are the ones that come disguised as a political message, but when you open them they somehow morph (in the sense of a new message replacing the one that was there when you opened the email) into a pitch for a penny stock, pork belly futures or the like.

So, seriously, what kind of a moron, having been mislead in this fashion, would then say in response to an email from who knows the hell where, “Hey, that sounds like a good investment opportunity, I think I’ll dump my life savings into it?”

And if no one does, then why do they bother sending the damn things?


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One Response to “Does investment spam actually sell anything?”

  1. MikeH Says:

    Steve, have you heard of or tried Spamcop?

    http://www.spamcop.net/

    One service in particular that they have, which is especially good if you are receiving about 50 spams a day, is a service in which you can set up an e-mail account on spamcop, and then forward e-mails from other e-mail accounts to the spamcop e-mail account. The spamcop then filters most of the spam e-mail and puts it in a special folder. From that folder one can then easily report multiple spams. This service is described in

    http://www.spamcop.net/ces/individuals.shtml

    And there are parameters one can tweak to get the best results for filtering spam while not filtering good e-mail. And one can put good e-mail addresses in a whitelist so that they are not mistakenly filtered as spam.

    I have been using this service for a couple of years, and am quite happy with it.

    And another service allows you to report spam individually, which would be good if you get just a few spams, or if you need to report spam which is not filtered out by the spamcop e-mail service (and you POP it from the spamcop server).

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