Tell your idiot subscribers about how great the stock is, and, like sheep, they will run out and buy it," riffed the message. "Dump the shares you bought...[on] all of these suckers...watch the stock steadily tank...and laugh all the way to the bank."
It sounds like dialogue from Boiler Room, the new film featuring Ben Affleck as a Gen X stock-scam artist. But according to the feds, the scene is a real-life drama that threatens the 10 million investors expected to have online brokerage accounts by year's end and the millions more who use the Web to make investing decisions.
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