Watch Out For Penny Stock Fraud
There are literally thousands of companies out there in the world; and each one of these companies has thousands or millions of shares that they give to shareholders.
This means that the possibilities are basically endless on what kind of stocks you can buy or sell. You could invest in Microsoft and own a tiny piece of the PC giant, or you could buy a small share of a local company who is brimming with success and might become the next big hit.
The prices of the stocks will mostly depend on how large the business, how successful it is, and what its entrepreneurial future holds. In this article, I am going to talk about one of Cialis Jelly the types of stocks that are the most inexpensive.
They are aptly named penny stocks. While these types of buys may not exactly add up to one penny each, they are so cheap that they can get pretty close.
These types are usually sold for less than five dollars. They don’t show up on NASDAQ or any of the big name exchanges, but rather they are traded over-the-counter through mediators such as the OTC Bulletin Board who deal with smaller transactions.
Penny stocks are the common type, which means that in addition to a stock certificate that legally binds your share to you, you will get added privileges. This could include having voting rights within the specified company and being able to vote management in or out with the help of other shareholders.
Penny stocks usually end up being tied to smaller, “thinly traded” companies that don’t have a lot of information about them presented in the media or elsewhere. This is where they can get dangerous.
Penny shares are used to commit penny stock fraud, which is growing into a large problem here in the United States. Let’s explain how it works:
Let’s say that there is a company that is small but has potential to become bigger in the market. This business doesn’t get a lot of media attention and hides in the background Kamagra jelly behind bigger businesses.
These are the companies that frauders take and use to their advantage. They can easily manipulate company information because there is less of a chance of anyone telling them otherwise.
Frauders will flood the internet and other media sources with fake press releases, newsletter, blog posts, and e-mails. It will all be relating to the company that the scammers have chosen to use.
They might send a fake press release praising the advances of a company or introducing consumers to a new product or service that the business will be producing. Or they might post fake blogs, or go into chat rooms and tell other web-users that the business is up-and-coming and investors should definitely get a piece of it.
They can even send mass spam e-mails declaring that investors should not pass up the opportunity to buy a lucrative stock from the said business. These are only several of the ways that scammers can get their fraudulent information out there to potential investors.
Once the information is out, investors who are not informed and don’t understand the scam will quickly buy a boatload of shares, thinking that they will make a killing on their investment choice. More and more investors will keep buying more and more shares over time.
Once the shares are in high demand, the price goes up. When the price peaks at an all-time high, this is when the scammers follow up with their dirty deeds.
The scammers will then sell when they can get the most money, and will immediately cease sending out positive information about the burgeoning business. As a result, the price will plummet and all the remaining investors will lose a ton of money.
Then you have a few lucky people that have gained possibly thousands of dollars on their fraud, and the rest are left to bite the dust. This type of crime has become more and more prevalent and more and more investors are falling victim to it.
Fraudulent offers with penny shares are rampant over the internet, so you need to be careful when browsing market information. You could be a scammer’s next victim!
Author Bio: Jack R. Landry has worked in financial services for the last 12 years and written hundreds of articles about investing and Optioneer Trading.
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