Penny Stock Spam Is Annoying; Heres What To Do With It All
Penny Stock Spam
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!
I hate penny stock spam.
There I said it. Nothing in my life is more annoying than opening my email and seeing a scammer trying to convince me to buy a piece of crap penny stock.
Why such hatred for these emails?
Its simple, I get A LOT of penny stock spam and it drives me crazy.
As you can imagine, I spend hours online every day researching penny stocks, studying company filings, reading press releases, and trying to uncover a nugget of information that will make you and me more money!
Because of that, I sign up for emails and information all the time.
And that results in emails lots of emails I have one email account that I use for this kind of research, and last time I looked, it had about 96,000 unopened emails. (All from the last 12 months!)
So to say Ive seen a lot of penny stock spam is an understatement.
If youre anything like me, youre probably wadding through a sea of emails as well.
Today, Im going to share with you the secrets to identifying penny stock spam, how to separate the good from the bad, and what to do about it.
Lets start with the good
Not all email is penny stocks spam
I hope you dont consider my emails about penny stocks to be spam. I work hard to give you my research and ideas every day! Besides, youll be able to tell a good email from a bad one often just by the content.
- Does it look nice? (good)
- Do they use proper grammar? (good)
- Is the email easy to read? (good)
- Are they all about the hype? (bad)
- Do they sound like a used car salesman? (bad)
- Are they pressuring you to buy something right now? (bad)
If theres an email you like and trust (like Penny Stock Research), you can let your email provider know you approve of their emails and whitelist the sender.
This first step, regardless of if you use G-mail, AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo or any other email system is to add the email address to your contacts list.
You can also whitelist good emails by following these steps.
Now what about that email youre not so sure of?
How to tell is an email is penny stock spam
If youre trying to figure out if a particular email is spam
Take a moment and scroll to the bottom of the email. Thats right, open the email up, (dont click on anything) and scroll to the very bottom. Youll see an email disclaimer. All professionals who send emails have a disclaimer.
Now read it.
Boring I know but youre looking for something specific. Youre looking for disclosures that the email sender is being PAID. Any mention of accepting payment for sending an email about a particular stock is a bad thing.
Those are penny stock spam!
Now what should you do?
What to do with penny stock spam
Once you find an email thats penny stock spam or emails that you dont want to get any more
The first step is to scroll to the bottom of the email.
Normally there will be a link at the bottom saying unsubscribe or manage my subscription or something like that.
Click on the link and follow the instructions to unsubscribe.
(By the way, I recommend unsubscribing from things regularly it helps keep your inbox clean.)
Then keep a list
Yep, write down the email address that you just unsubscribed from and watch your email inbox. According to the rules, a sender has about 48 hours to remove you from their email list.
If you see an email from the sender when you open it, go-ahead and click the spam button (but only 48 hours after youve tried to unsubscribe).
Those are a few fast tricks to avoiding penny stock spam and keeping your inbox nice and clean!
Profitably Yours,
Brian Kent
Penny Stock Research
Brian Kent has been trading the markets for more than 2 decades and now writes and edits for PennyStockResearch.com. You can sign up for the newsletter and get a free research report – http://pennystockresearch.com/free-reports/. We are a trusted source for the truth about penny stocks!
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