SUSAN TOMPOR: Hot stock tips often leave you in lurch

 22.06.2008 03:26   freep.com

A pump and dump? Sometimes, a stock manipulator buys some low-priced shares. Then, the con artist floods e-mail baskets with hot tips about that same stock as a way to pump up the stock price. A few gullible investors buy the stock, and the price goes up quickly.

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