Key Takeaways The FBI has seen a 300% increase in victim complaints about pump-and-dump stock fraud in 2025 compared to 2024, with fraudsters increasingly using social media and messaging apps to ...

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 ...

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.

NEW YORK — An Ohio trader in penny stocks was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he earned over $1 million illegally by lying repeatedly to his over 70,000 Twitter followers to get them to buy ...

Fraud charges against eight social media influencers accused of promoting languishing stocks to their followers and then dumping the shares when they rose are exposing a dark side of investing. Seven ...

Last week, The Bear Cave investigative financial newsletter warned of widespread pump-and-dump scams coordinated via WhatsApp groups and fake investment firms that target U.S.-listed Chinese stocks.

We recently compiled a list of the 10 Pump and Dump Stocks Favored by Hedge Funds. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Rigetti Computing, Inc. (NASDAQ:RGTI) stands against the pump ...

The crypto economy has been torn to shreds in recent months with hundreds of billions knocked off the value of the sector — © AFP/File Justin TALLIS The crypto ...

Video-game developer FractureLabs filed a lawsuit against Jump Trading, accusing one of the cryptocurrency industry’s biggest market makers of “fraud and deceit” by manipulating the price of a token ...

Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes (CPDs) are becoming increasingly prevalent. As in the case of traditional "pump and dump" schemes, CPDs lead to short-term trading perturbations — exaggerated ...