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 ...

Have you familiarized yourself with the basics of crypto, but remain unsure whether you are ready to try your hand at trading or investing? Are you apprehensive about making the jump into this ...

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 ...

Stock markets around the world nosedived on Monday after traders, businesses and economies reacted to Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ announcement of higher tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading ...

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 ...

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The Court of Federal Claims, rehearing a case remanded to it by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, held that taxpayers who were victims of a fraudulent investment scheme could not deduct a ...

Regulators are increasingly concerned about a new twist on the classic pump-and-dump scheme. It starts innocuously enough: You receive a message through an encrypted messaging platform asking if your ...

Digital assets are a frontier, and so it’s no surprise that they draw their share of outlaws. When this story is shared on social media, inevitably a series of automated accounts, run by bots, will ...