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Experts at SophosLabs have detected about 500 million emails containing advice to invest in Prime Time Stores Inc. -- an obscure US-listed group -- in a record-breaking example of the "pump-and-dump" spamming technique.

"Pump-and-dump" is when spammers buy shares, orchestrate a spam campaign promoting the company, then wait for a share price to rise before selling their stock for a profit.  "This is staggering. It's one of the biggest spam campaigns we've ever seen," he told AFP in a telephone interview.

Giant 'pump-and-dump' spam scam hits computers - Yahoo! News

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