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Mntsnow
03-12-2004, 7:16 AM
Online stock fraud seems to have diminished -- thanks to the market crash, stepped-up enforcement and message-board vigilantism -- but it hasn't gone away.

This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed securities fraud charges against a San Francisco banker who posted a fake Reuters news story on the Yahoo Finance message board for Sina Corp. Read more (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/11/BUG305I1U11.DTL&type=tech)