Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Internet-related prefixes Internet-related prefixes Internet-related prefixes such as "e-", "i-", "cyber-", "info-", "techno-" and "net-" are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart. The adjective "virtual" is often used in a similar manner. "Cyber-" is derived from "cybernetic," which comes from the Greek word κυβερνητικός meaning "skilled in steering or governing". It is mainly used in the terms "cyberspace", "cyberlaw", "cyberbullying", "cybercrime", "cyberwarfare", "cyberterrorism", "cybersex", and "cyberdelic" among others. Although it is more commonly used to describe policies and politics