IAUS A Utah company claimed to have developed a new data transmission technology called "Digital Wave Modulation," and the company's stock soared from $3.50 to more than $40 a share. Prices collapsed when the company failed to produce a promised prototype, but not before the company's chairman and his children sold approximately $3 million worth of their shares in this classic "pump and dump" scheme. (SEC v. International Automated Systems, Inc., et al.)
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