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.

Pump-and-dump stock scams are nothing new. These scams have been a mainstay of financial fraudsters for centuries. And while technology has changed the way they operate, the underlying principles and ...

For years, the party never seemed to end but last week, the music finally stopped. Eight of social media’s most-followed faces of finance, four of them from the Houston area, were arrested. All are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pump-and-dump is an investment scheme that involves inflating the price of a penny stock or meme coin. Is TRUMP Coin an example? Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Since crypto regulations are still being developed, crypto pump-and-dump groups support the promotion of unknown coins over Discord and Telegram. Pump-and-dump operations, which fraudulently ...