On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:57 -0800, Evan Platt wrote: > > Imagine if ABC Corp is already public, and along comes XYZ, Inc, > about to go public. XYZ competes with ABC. ABC hires Spammer in > <Foreign Country> to spam for 'XYZ'. So now it looks like XYZ is > spamming. The FTC crawls all over XYZ, who of course plead innocent.
Or Joe spammer picks a penny stock at random. Buys a bunch, pumps it, dumps it. Derek