Fraud charges against eight social media influencers accused of promoting languishing stocks to their followers and then dumping the shares when they rose are exposing a dark side of investing. Seven ...

DENVER (CN) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused the Regency Group and its principal owners of defrauding investors of millions of dollars through "pump-and-dump" schemes with two ...

Pump-and-dump stock scams are nothing new. These scams have been a mainstay of financial fraudsters for centuries. And while technology has changed the way they operate, the underlying principles and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Wednesday charged eight men accused of earning more than $100 million in illicit stock market profits by manipulating their novice-investor followers on social ...