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  Spam Email Attempts To Inflate Share Prices

By Sarah Falson | Sunday | 2007-10-21

A spam email circulating the globe has been identified as an attempt to inflate share prices by encouraging recipients to buy shares in a little-known website company that sells new and used motor vehicles.

A screenshot of the MP3 file which claims to be an Elvis song.
Under the guise of MP3 music files from popular artists such as Elvis Presley, Fergie and Carrie Underwood, the actual file attached to the dodgy email contains a "monotone" voice which encourages listeners to visit the company's new website which is "already a huge success" and also supplies the company's US stock exchange code: EXTO, according to virus and spam analysis centre, SophosLabs.

"Hello, this is an investor alert," says the MP3 file.

"Exit Only Incorporated has announced it is ready to launch its new text4cars.com website, already a huge success in Canada, we are expecting amazing results in the USA.

"Go read the news and sit on EXTO. That symbol again is EXTO. Thank you."

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