There are signs that a stock spammer is trying something new. In general, each apparent stock spammer typically pushes only one or two stocks at a time: it's sometimes even possible to observe the changeover as a spammer dumps his holding in one stock and starts up with a new one. Starting today, however, one spammer seems to be firing off spam in small quantities for a whole basket of stocks. In addition to some ongoing and new spam runs from other spammers, I've seen novel plaintext spams advertising eight smallcap stocks, about half of which have never been previously been advertised. The similarity between the messages suggests that these are all the work of a single spammer. It looks as if he might be testing a new tactic, perhaps involving smaller investments spread across multiple holdings.