Con Artists Using 'Wrong Number' Answering Machine
Messages to Snare Victims in New Scam Sweeping Nation
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an investor alert designed to warn
Americans about a new scam sweeping the country-answering machine 'wrong number' stock touts. Voice mail
messages are appearing on home answering machines from coast to coast saying that the stock price of certain
small, thinly traded companies will soon shoot up. The breezy, intimate messages sound as if a female caller
mistakenly believes she has dialed a girlfriend and is confiding inside information she has learned from 'that hot
stock exchange guy I'm dating.' Read more...