B10[mg]

The spam filters at my work aren't too good, so my Thunderbird filtering has a lot to do. Some spam, I get very often, is a mail with some weird text (probably Markov generated content), and an image like this

Since we're already comparing spam mails for the prices of VlIAgR4 at work (for fun), I decided to track the spamvertized stock.

The date is odd, for October 18th 2006 would be a Wednesday, last time I checked, yet since they constantly use the word Thursday, I assume the mean October 19th, today.

The funny thing is that that stock did go pretty good today. It went up 100%, according to Yahoo! Finance

Now that made me wonder. Was this incidental, or did people actually buy this stock, based on the spam? Well, let's keep track of such emails.

Today I also received this one, so let's see what happens tomorrow!

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Company name: Texhoma Energy, Inc.
Stock symbol: TXHE.PK
Current price: 0.12 (up 50% this week)
Expected price 10/20/2006: 0.52
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The information mentioned herein has not been released to the
general public and should be kept confidential until its
scheduled announcement on Friday, October 20.  I strongly suggest
that you get in before then.
[snip spam]

For some reason I doubt it's confidential, since it was mailed to an email account of mine I barely use and can be harvested easily ;-)

spam, stock, xtpt