Con Artists Using 'Wrong Number' Answering Machine Messages to
Snare Victims in New Scam Sweeping Nation
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an investor alert
designed to warn Americans about a new scam sweeping the country-answering machine 'wrong
number' stock touts. Voice mail messages are appearing on home answering machines from coast to
coast saying that the stock price of certain small, thinly traded companies will soon shoot up. The
breezy, intimate messages sound as if a female caller mistakenly believes she has dialed a girlfriend
and is confiding inside information she has learned from 'that hot stock exchange guy I'm dating.'
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