It seems pretty easy to figure out: if somebody tells you to buy the stock, it’s because they’ve already bought in and you’re the mark. There’s no incentive for

It seems pretty easy to figure out: if somebody tells you to buy the stock, it’s because they’ve already bought in and you’re the mark. There’s no incentive for the scammer to include more people in the winning side of the pump and dump, they benefit by having as many fools as possible pumping and as few of them as possible dumping.