Spammers have attempted to convince people to buy shares in Apple off the back of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C buzz.Under the guise of an internal source, a spam message tantalised readers with the revelation of device being developed at Apple that will be more revolutionary than the recently launched iPhone 5s and 5C.Search for distributors in theDistributor DirectoryFollowing the distribution of one million spam e-mails over a 14 hour timeframe, BitDefender found that 1.5 per cent of recipients responded to it.Bitdefender spam researcher, Adrian Miron, said that the email, as any other stock spam message, was made to look like a confidential message sent by someone to only a few people."Known as penny stock spam, this type of email usually misleads people into buying shares of worthless or small companies at small prices," he said."This will artificially increase the value of those shares in a matter of hou
