Internet Scams - Stock Fraud#5 Internet Scams - Stock Fraud#5

Things are getting a bit out of hand. Today, I had 12 spam emails touting American Unity Investments (AUNI) stock that all had the first name of the poster as the subject of the email. That is about 20% of the email I got today that wasn't marked as spam, and about 10% total.

It would be interesting to see how these people make their money. Are they buying the stock, and then touting it to get it to go up? Or are they being paid? My guess is the former, since there are so many of them.