Investment advice emails?

Selik

Has anyone ever received an email like this:

These stocks may make You Money
Joel <Jaquan@xinpianzhang.com> to me
More options 9 Aug (1 day ago)

SMALL-CAP INVESTORS AUGUST LOCK OF THE MONTH !!!
SYMBOL: PGCN
Profits of 300-400 % EXPECTED


We Told at 1.20 to WATCH PGCN and now its $1.80
and we think it goes to $5.00 on expected news this week...

Harbin Pingchuan Pharmaceutical: (PGCN)
Current Price: $1.80
Shares Outstanding: 20 Million
Market Capitalization: $6 Million
Short Term Target: $5.75
12month Target: $10.00
Market Performance: STRONG BUY


***WE URGE YOU TO PUT PGCN ON YOUR RADAR FOR TUESDAY AUGUST 9, 2005***

HARBIN, China, /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harbin Pingchuan Pharmaceutical Holding Co. Ltd.
(OTC Bulletin Board: PGCN - News; "PINGCHUAN") announced today that PINGCHUAN signed
a Purchase Agreement with the Guangdong Medicine Group Co. Ltd. (''GDMG'').

Under the terms of the agreement, PINGCHUAN will authorize GDMG as its franchisee
in five southern provinces of China. With respect to the authorization, GDMG intends
to purchase approximately US$2.00million worth of PINGCHUAN's pharmaceutical products in 2005.
By cooperating with GDMG, PINGCHUAN will greatly enhance the marketing network
and sales channels in Southern China.

"We are delighted to reach this agreement with the leading medical enterprise in Southern China.
This purchase agreement not only increases our sales revenue in these five provinces,
but also substantially improves our brand awareness in Southern China. While maintaining
the existing marketing network, we are developing and setting up new marketing network
and sales channel actively." Said Hu ZhanWu, Chairman and President of
Pingchuan Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., "One of our marketing strategies is to establish
a connection with medical enterprises such as Guangdong Medicine Group, for the promotion
of our products into their commercial networks throughout the entire country."


REASON TO WATCH PGCN***
Make no mistake: Our mission at SmallCap-Investors is to claw our way through
the thousands of underperforming companies out there to find the golden needle
in the haystack the micro-cap DIAMOND that can make you rich. More often than not,
the stocks we profile show a significant increase in stock price and sometimes
in days, not months or years.

Do this often enough, and your portfolio can double, even TRIPLE in value.
We Love this company and at anytime they can put out major news and the price can triple.

***********BUY LOW TRADE HIGH**********GOOD LUCK********************






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I've never signed up for it and it looks a bit dodgy with the layout etc. Usually find it in the spam section of my Gmail. No advertising in it though so I'm wondering what the catch is. Would it be worth keeping an eye on the so-called stocks that they're trumpeting just to see if there's anything in it?

I'd just like to know what the point is in these emails (for the sender) and what they're getting out of it. I mean if I had tons of cash and I knew certain things about a company (yeah I know it's insider trading!) that would cause the price to rocket when released to the city I certainly wouldn't go mailing a bunch of strangers about it!

defiantshrimp

Giles wrote:

...I'm wondering what the catch is. Would it be worth keeping an eye on the so-called stocks that they're trumpeting just to see if there's anything in it?

I'd just like to know what the point is in these emails (for the sender) and what they're getting out of it....

There are a number of things it could be. It could be similar to a betting scam where a fraudster mass mails people predicted results to soccer games (or whatever). The idea is at any one game half the predictions will be right, and then he mails those same people who received a correct prediction again with new predicted results and repeats the process. Eventually when he has a group of people that have received a string of successful results, he asks them for money to subscribe to his "newsletter" with more predictions.

Another possible thing is that the mailer owns stock in that company and wants to hype it up and cause people to buy in order to increase its value and thus profit from it. I belive that is highly illegal in the states though. But then again so much Spam is.

nesf

If it was unsolicited, delete it. Don't even bother to read it. Or at least that's my philosophy on such.

Free solicited stuff can be ok, although tbh, you need to take it with a large grain of salt, and for it to be of use to you you already need to be able to "read" the markets and have some grasp of them.

*shrugs*

Again, imho.

Hagar

defiantshrimp wrote:

There are a number of things it could be. It could be similar to a betting scam where a fraudster mass mails people predicted results to soccer games (or whatever). The idea is at any one game half the predictions will be right, and then he mails those same people who received a correct prediction again with new predicted results and repeats the process. Eventually when he has a group of people that have received a string of successful results, he asks them for money to subscribe to his "newsletter" with more predictions.

Great idea thanks, now where did I leave that booklet of email stamps.

super123

Its called spam. You can normally buy the real stuff in Tesco's in a flashy red and yellow can!