A so-called “pump and dump” scheme is a way that unscrupulous investors manipulate markets to generate illegal profits. By making false or exaggerated claims about certain investments, these scam ...

Investors lost $3.7 billion in July as Chinese penny stocks crashed following social media pump-and-dump schemes, with FBI ...

Pumping and dumping cryptocurrency is the latest get-rich-quick scheme, one of the shadier hallmarks of digital capitalism. The scheme is simple: a group coordinates to rapidly purchase a particular ...

Regulators face a crucial tradeoff between creating opportunities for small businesses to acquire capital and providing adequate protection to investors. The researchers examined 421 pump-and-dumps ...

For most of the research that Chainalysis release in their annual Crypto Crime Report, the data tells “a clear story.” For instance, funds sent to ransomware operators, darknet markets, or sanctioned ...

AI stocks now echo Trump’s tariff-driven market chaos—skyrocketing on hype and plunging on doubt, edging closer to a dangerous bubble.

Buy low, sell high; do not follow the green candles, let’s pump until 87,000 Satoshis and dump it at ATH (All Time High). These are just a few notable phrases of the chat groups where hundreds and ...

Pump-and-dump stock scammers have begun using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to deliver their get-rich-quick schemes, another in a series of moves they’ve made trying to slip past antispam filters.

A buyout occurs when an investor, or group of investors, purchases a controlling interest in a company, which amounts to 51 percent or more of its stock shares. Typical scenarios involve leveraged ...