{"id":2053,"date":"2006-12-05T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2006-12-05T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:11:00","slug":"ironic-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironic Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the latest waves of spam has been &#8220;Penny Stocks&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are spams for small companies that are traded on markets. The only problem is that the Markets that you&#8217;ve heard of&#8230; &#8220;Dow Jones, Nasdaq, AMEX, etc&#8221; won&#8217;t touch them because they are (if you&#8217;ll forgive me) small change.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much any stock trading under $1.50 per share is just too damned volatile to consider. <\/p>\n<p>One of my Penny Stock Spams was for a company that specializes in new technology.<\/p>\n<p>their tech?<br \/>\n&#8230;a leader in the fight against email based viruses, spam, and outbound threats of corporate espionage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Trading at $0.11 per share on August 2 they haven&#8217;t actually traded any shares since.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2053\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2053\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2053\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the latest waves of spam has been &#8220;Penny Stocks&#8221; These are spams for small companies that are traded on markets. The only problem is that the Markets that you&#8217;ve heard of&#8230; &#8220;Dow Jones, Nasdaq, AMEX, etc&#8221; won&#8217;t touch them because they are (if you&#8217;ll forgive me) small change. Pretty much any stock trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2053\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2053\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2053\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/ironic-spam\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[334,231,45],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}