If You Like Money, Don't Buy These 3 Stocks

There are plenty of great companies whose shares trade on the stock market, and investing in those companies for the long haul can be extremely rewarding. But those big gains don't always materialize overnight, so people who want to get rich quickly have recently turned their attention to some of the riskiest companies in the market.

Even the most aggressive investors tend to avoid buying shares of companies that have filed for bankruptcy protection, or appear likely to do so. Although a few lucky companies emerge from bankruptcy proceedings and go on to bigger and better things, nearly all of them end up worthless for their existing shareholders.

Below, we'll look at three stocks where many inexperienced investors are putting hundreds or even thousands of dollars into buying shares -- and will probably lose all of their money.

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