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

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 ...

Are pump-and-dump spammers really making money from hyping penny stocks in e-mails? Paul Moriarty has the answer and it's an eyebrow-raising sight. Over the last month, Moriarty, director of product ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Crypto pump-and-dump schemes take advantage of people while making some big money for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker and subject of the 2013 hit "Wolf of Wall Street," weighed in on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Bitcoin comment where he said, "I might pump, but I don't dump," arguing ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON – "This is the biggest pump community which will help you make money," reads the ad sent to a Telegram channel with 17,000 followers. The group in question is the "PumpKing Community." It is ...