We often receive e-mail messages that contain such keywords as ‘stock alert,’ ‘short term target’ and ‘buy alert.’ If you have an e-mail filter, you may want to put the following keywords to block messages.

Anyway, the companies that this cyber criminal mentions in his/her stock alert messages share common characteristics.

The intension of this stock alert scam is obvious. He or she wants to inflate the stock price just for the next few days. If you waste your time reading stock alert messages, a short term target price is always higher than the current price.

Anyway, whoever is sending these stock alert messages, let’s hope that he or she will soon get caught along with their stock trader associates for spamming us. If you receive stock alert messages, you know what to do. Just put them in a junk folder. That’s where they belong.