Pump and dump

"Pump and dump" (P&D) is a form of security fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price.

Pump And Dump Media

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  "Night wind hawkers" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble. (The Great Picture of Folly, 1720)

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  Visualisation of pump and dump scam based on SLO-BNB cryptocurrency example

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  Anatomy of a scalping scheme