Usually the scam is just a pure pump & dump with no sophistication: Trader A sends 50,000 an alert that small-cap XYZ is going through the roof, then XYZ really

Usually the scam is just a pure pump & dump with no sophistication: Trader A sends 50,000 an alert that small-cap XYZ is going through the roof, then XYZ really does go through the roof because a large subset of 50,000 people buy it at the same time.