Fortune Magazine) -- It arrived on a Tuesday morning. I flipped open my buzzing Motorola cell phone and found a text message from someone called [email protected]. "Hush hush wink wink," it began, "Castleguard Energy (OTC: MOAT) strikes BLACK GOLD in Wyoming. Watch the share price double, triple, more? Exxon, watch out!"

Momentarily, I felt dizzy. Then angry. Then greedy (triple? more?). Then back to angry: I had been spammed where I was least expecting it.

My first response was to retaliate. I tried sending an (unprintable) response to Casey, but it wouldn't go through. From the "dk" in his address, I assumed he was in Denmark - probably eating smoked fish and laughing at me that very moment.

Next I decided to phone Castleguard Ene...
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