Occasional Observations

I've seen a new form of spam this morning - an animated GIF which turns into a "hot stock alert". But this isn't just a plain old embedded image, no, they're using content addressing (CID) protocols to mask the gif location.

These fake stock tips have fascinated me for a while, so I took a closer look at today's hot tip, Thermafreeze Products, which has scam written all over it.

Here's 5 reasons why:

1. No website for the company
2. Company started trading only in September
3. Phoney press releases about business deals with the President also the media/IR contact - and using a yahoo mail account
4. Phoney press release about the "unexplained" stock price fall
5. The spam ....

Then I found something else which corroborates my theory. For the record, the stock price right now is 0.115 per share. Just watch it sink!