Spam messages that contain links to a website in order to promote something likes online pharmacy are very common. Since the past few years, there are spammers that send out spams in order to persuade the receivers to invest in a particular company’s stock.

Spammers distribute information that may be fake about a company’s stock in the hope the stock price can quickly inflate and enable them to make a fast profit. Although such spam messages has nothing to do with malicious programs, they can cause a financial loss to the victims.

The best protection against stock market spams is to just ignore the information sent. Some anti-spam tools can filter emails that contain the words like’stock’, ‘investment’ or ‘investor reports’. Although spammers can use the divergences of the word stock like’st0ck’ or’stox, a good filter can eliminate such emails to get into your mailbox.