Common sense alarm! I know it’s hard to resist the urge to invest in a penny stock that’s set to triple in value daily for the next 155 years. But before you click that invest it now button, maybe you should research some of the previous spam stocks that make to just about every legitamite email users inbox. Joshua Cyr did just that, creating a nifty site where he dynamically tracks the value of all those spam penny stocks he’s receiving, showing that about 98% of all the stock tips he received resulted in over a 98% loss on the market.

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