300 Percent Increase in American Investors Defrauded by ‘Ramp-and-Dump’ Stock Fraud by Naveen Athrappully July 5, 2025
There has been a surge of criminals targeting stock investors in the United States in a “ramp-and-dump” stock manipulation scheme via messaging apps and social media platforms, the FBI said in a July 3 alert.
In the scheme, “investment clubs” are promoted among potential targets. These clubs are often bots or fake accounts, and the promotional messaging directs victims to secure messaging apps where the group operates. Scammers impersonate legitimate brokerage firms or well-known stock analysts to appear credible.
“They secretly control a large volume of a low-priced stock and coordinate efforts to inflate its price (‘ramp up’) by encouraging investment club members to purchase shares over a period of several weeks or months,” said the alert.
“Once the price is artificially elevated, the criminals sell off (‘dump’) their shares at a profit, leaving unsuspecting investors with significant losses as the stock value collapses.”
According to the FBI, there has been at least a 300 percent annual jump in victims complaining about ramp-and-dump stock fraud so far this year.
It's much simpler than your short theoretical model It's supply and demand. There is no demand at this time. This is all pumping to get people hooked on the short hopium and make a quick trade.If the company preforms there may be a chance. But reading there financial reports and past history of lying under oath in depositions pretty much tells all that needs to be known it's a Hopium investment.
I couldn’t care less about income when the entire short thesis was built on the assumption that the stock would be revoked—and it wasn’t. That’s game-changing.
So, your whole basis for being here is based on proving the people you don't believe are lying to you and therefore this stock has value?
This isn’t about traditional valuation. It’s not about debt. It’s not even about long-term operations. It’s about asymmetric setup and leverage—a ticking bomb of synthetic shares sitting in the system because nobody thought this ticker would survive.
Only in penny world do people see a stock not yet at zero as a victory.
I'm not here for quarterly reports. I'm here to burn the shorts.
Look at the share price history Dumbo. Any shorts would have had multiple chances to cover.....probably the time you were dumping shares. In case you didn't know, a stock price dropping is a win for anyone short shares. The stock price has gone from .0394 to .0012