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Since some of my earlier postings here, there has been this spam e-mail sent out that is trying to encourage the reader to invest in an OTC stock. Ever since I took a course affiliated with Michael Parness, and read his book titled “Trend Trading to Win", I have learned that many OTC stocks available are managed by people who are only looking to make a buck. They may even have ties to the mob. So an investment in one of these stocks is not a quality investment, unless you’re extremely sure about the company its for (i.e. you live next door to it, or have purchased its products and deal with them regularly).

So my advice is to ignore those stupid stock tips. These people are just trying to make a fast dollar off the unsuspecting public. Don’t open up one of those emails, then go into your Ameritrade account and start trading them. They may say that the stock is at a current price of 50 cents, and there’s a target price of $1 or more - this information isn’t coming from Forbes Magazine folks. Alot of these stock tips look like they were written by someone who barely knew English. Beware of these tips - they are nothing more than scams.

Are you tired of the nine-to-five grind at your workplace? If so, too bad - you’re better off doing your 9-5 job than what the spammers are selling you. Think of them as theives who want nothing more than your money. They may sound like they want YOU to be happy, but they’re only after their own happiness by padding their own bank accounts with the money of people who just don’t understand their evil ways - people who are willing to gamble their money with a spammer instead of doing something more constructive with it - like going to a training class or buy a book to advance their skills or learn new ones. Don’t buy these classes or books from spammers, either. Even if they’re good, I would avoid them just on the matter of pricipal - they are conducting bad business practices and perpetuating a plague on modern society.

Who knows, maybe I should create a website that lists such companies that are big that resort to such tactics and encourage people not to conduct business with them. One has to be careful though - these companies can be Goliaths. I’m pretty busy these days - I’ll pick that battle for sometime in the future.

I received an email today that, in my opinion, was full of blatant lies. It follows as listed, below:

From: Dudley Shapiro [SelenaMorse@politickin.com] Hello, We spoke a few days ago and I’d like to confirm everything now. Please go over the information below and let me know if you have any questions. http://www.savemoneyforustoday.com/?t=Grabadora We are accepting your form. Your status has been accepted. We need to confirm your details one more time. Just check the URL above and fill out our last form. Thank you, Laurie Pratt

First of all, I have an issue with the sender. The name is Dudley Shapiro, with an address of SelenaMorse@politickin.com . The letter is ’signed’ by Laurie Pratt.

Also, I never spoke to these people, a few days ago, a few years ago, or EVER! The form that the link goes to asks for the type of mortgage loan that I need, and the information asked for is MORE than a few details (contrary to what Laurie, or Dudlye, or Selena Morse).

If you get an email like this, its a safe bet that they’re just phishing for your personal information to sell to other companies. In this case, they want to sell my information to mortgage brokers as a ‘hot lead’. I may also end up on a list of ’suckers’ who would fill out those forms. Don’t let that happen to you.