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August 21, 2025 | Pump and Dump Scams Are All The Rage (encore)
Danielle Park
More cautionary signs of mania behaviour in financial markets, see “Investors lose billions on meme stocks as ‘pump and dump’ scams multiply“:
Investors lost billions of dollars in July betting on a handful of small US-listed Chinese stocks that plunged in value shortly after being heavily promoted on social media.
Seven Nasdaq-listed microcap stocks — Concorde International, Ostin Technology, Top KingWin, Skyline Builders, Everbright Digital, Park Ha Biological Technology and Pheton Holdings — all dropped more than 80 percent over a few trading sessions in recent weeks.
The declines wiped a cumulative $3.7bn off their market value, according to price data analysed by predictive analytics firm InvestorLink. All seven stocks had surged before their sudden sell-offs, having been plugged to investors on WhatsApp groups and social media sites.
Analysts and investors said the moves bore many of the hallmarks of pump and dump scams.
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Danielle Park August 21st, 2025
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