Thursday, July 19, 2007
SEC Goes After Botnet Stock Swindlers
The SEC brought charges against two Texans for using botnets which hijacked numerous computers of unsuspecting people to send out spam emails promoting penny stocks that they owned and dumped when the stocks rose on investor buying. The swindlers swindled almost $5 million from investors, according to the SEC.
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