Financial Markets Authority
Catalogue reference · Recorded date: 2025-10-03. Confirm the exact legal entity and current status with the authority.
Open authority reference ↗- Commercial name
- US Stocks Investment Group-672
- Authority jurisdiction
- New Zealand
- Authority reference
- 64
- Authority record date
- 2025-10-03
- Categories
- 4,5
- Category details
- Market Manipulation (pump and dump schemes, wash trades, etc.)|Fraud and Other Types of Misconduct
- Products
- 1
- Product details
- Stocks and bonds
- Additional catalogue information
- The FMA warns about investment advice group chats targeting New Zealand investors with ‘pump-and-dump’ schemes. Scammers purchase large volumes of low-value shares in overseas companies. They then persuade investors to purchase low-priced shares in overseas company, artificially inflating the share price. The scammers then sell their holdings at a profit. When the share price collapses, investors are left bearing significant losses. After a victim suffers a loss, the scammers often claim, falsely, that the victim is entitled to compensation or reimbursement. The scammers use these claims to harvest personal information and further payments from the victims.
- Validation date
- 2025-10-03
- Modification date
- 2025-10-03