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Noun: pump-and-dump scheme
  1. An illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises

Derived forms: pump-and-dump schemes

Type of: contrivance, dodge [informal], stratagem

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