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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