Fraud & Scams

Pump and Dump

Definition

What is Pump and Dump?

Manipulating an asset upward through misleading promotion before selling into the inflated demand.

Example in practice

Promoters spread false claims about a thinly traded share and then exit.

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A fraud that pays earlier participants using money from newer participants rather than genuine investment profits.

A scheme that rewards recruitment more than genuine product sales or investment activity.

A digital-asset fraud in which insiders remove liquidity or abandon a project after attracting investor funds.

A person or firm that executes securities transactions for clients.

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