John McAfee admits that his twitter account has been compromised. That's why there are questions whether he is a manipulator or a influencer. I agree that he is eccentric but he has a lot of followers so I don't know if he is telling the truth about his account being hijacked, or he is just saying it because his "coin of the day" was really a joke to begin with and a total failure.

https://www.cnet.com/news/my-account-was-hacked-mcafee-founder-tweeted/

Pump-and-dump groups? We already know how premium members makes money. The only victim here is those noobs who joined this kind of groups.

You may be right, but on the other hand with the existence of such groups you can also benefit, because you can know which coin will go up and down, it becomes one of our advantages.

they are in the worst cases working like that,

in the most cases they simply manipulate the exchange price,

the market is sometimes very stupid because he starts to accept a higher price, later

Yes. It's true that those people of such groups would have bought the coins which they want to promote at very low price and they would ask us to buy when it's getting pumped. Suddenly when they reach their target of high price, immediately they would dump those coins without our knowledge and we would be left in loss.

Sad knowing these pump and dump groups exist to better their fellow traders. I planned on joining one way back in September but a quick google search gave me info regarding this scheme. I would suggest our new traders/holders/investors to please do due diligence in researching any ventures before going in.