BUY PENNY STOCK ONLINE
November 29th, 2007 by admin
Many people who are thinking to buy penny stocks online, need to be aware of the pump and dump scheme. They probably have already seen or been contacted by a pump and dump fraudster and did not even know it.
The pump and dump method for fraud occur usually when the owners or primary shareholders of the company hype up the company through advertisements methods and promotions. Once they get the excitement up about the company, investors start to buy large amounts of stock. The massive buying causes the stock prices to skyrocket and then all of the investors sell their shares making a bundle of money. The price of the stock then plummets because everyone has sold leaving all of the investors and people stuck with stock that is worth
nothing.
The market of the pump and dump scheme usually occurs with the smaller OTCBB or the pink sheet companies that would normally have penny stocks. The majority of these companies do not have much information about themselves online and the information can be difficult to find. Therefore, the pump and dump scheme works best in this market. It is also known to happen in the larger NASDAQ firms when you see executive fudge the financials and then hype the company, but it is a larger problem in the OTCBB world.
There are many methods that try to get people to buy penny stock online. One of the biggest methods is the use of emailing and spamming people telling them about excellent penny stock to purchase. The pump and dump email messages telling people to buy penny stock online account for over 15% of spam. Usually, if an email is focusing on someone to buy stocks, it is focusing on penny stocks. In most cases, people lose at least 5% of their investment within just a couple of days of the investment.
Pump and dump scams usually happen when brokers are trying to get others to buy penny stock online. However, it does occur in businesses where the owners and shareholders are trying to get rich and get rid of their stock. People should be aware of the pump and dump methods and not fall for it.
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