1.   Before the Net, these promoters hired squads of telemarketers to push their stocks on unsuspecting investors.

2.   In a classic Ponzi scheme, fraud artists pay off early unsuspecting investors with new money raked in from fresh investors.

3.   In the trials, prosecutors said that he had used his company, Bennett Funding Group of Syracuse, to defraud unsuspecting investors, many of them elderly.

4.   Still, unsuspecting investors could get caught in the pinch.

5.   The agency said stock promoters and officials of small brokerage firms bribed brokers to get them to sell certain issues to unsuspecting investors.

6.   The brokers are then coerced into further inflating the prices of the new shares by recommending them to unsuspecting investors.

7.   The five separate schemes caused unsuspecting investors to overpay for stocks whose prices were being secretly controlled by the defendants, the agency alleged.

8.   The schemes caused unsuspecting investors to overpay for stocks whose prices were being secretly inflated by the defendants, the agency alleged.

9.   Those in the know sell their shares to unsuspecting investors.

10.   Today, unsuspecting investors are mugged daily on Wall Street.