Episode Details

The Ramp-and-Dump: Two Hundred Fourteen Million Dollars in Social-Media Stock Hype examines a modern financial fraud built for the age of online influence. Posing as U.S. investment advisers, offshore operators use calm authority, patriotic imagery, and private social-media groups to guide investors into thinly traded stocks. As prices surge, the promoters quietly exit, leaving followers trapped in sudden collapses. Told through a gritty investigative lens, the series exposes how trust, timing, and digital platforms combined to move hundreds of millions of dollars before regulators could react.