WASHINGTON — The government on Wednesday charged eight men of earning more than $100 million in illicit stock market profits by manipulating their novice-investor followers on social media. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Influencer pump and dump schemes are rampant in crypto. Adin Ross, Faze Clan, Ricegum, and Logan Paul are associated with ...

Taking a page from those who for decades ran South Florida boiler rooms and call centers to fleece would-be investors, scamsters are increasingly moving to lure victims through social media ads that ...

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 ...

Web3 pump-and-dump schemes thrive on hype, anonymity, and unregulated markets; understanding their playbook is key to avoiding costly traps. Pump-and-dump schemes in Web3 manipulate a cryptocurrency’s ...

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.

“Thousands of ordinary people lost their savings,” said prosecutors in the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried this week, urging the judge to enact the harshest possible punishment when the disgraced founder ...