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What is market manipulation? ‘Pump and dump’ explained after Trump’s tariff U-turn

Stock markets around the world nosedived on Monday after traders, businesses and economies reacted to Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ announcement of higher tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading ...
Futurism

Teen Brutally Rug Pulls Crypto Community, Pleads Them Not to Tell His Parents

A kid in his early teens made a small fortune after running a brutal crypto pump-and-dump scheme. As Wired reports, California resident Adam Biesk’s son launched 1 billion memecoins dubbed Gen Z Quant ...
Forbes

$MELANIA Under Fire: First Lady’s Memecoin Was Part Of Fraudulent Scheme, Lawsuit Alleges—What To Know

First Lady Melania Trump’s $MELANIA memecoin is now under legal scrutiny, as a court filing this week alleges the cryptocurrency is part of a broader fraudulent ...
CoinDesk

Pump.fun Hits Back at Report That Claimed 98% of Memecoins on the Platform Are Fraudulent

A report by Solidus Labs has revealed the alarming scale of fraudulent activity on the Solana blockchain, with 98.6% of tokens launched on Pump.fun being chalked down as rug pulls or pump-and-dump ...