The 3 most common pump-and-dump schemes for Meme coins (You must understand)

①【Pump and Tell a Story → Emotional Peak → Dump】

The most classic and common process:

1. Project team/whales first accumulate at low levels
2. Start telling a story:

Community culture

Next DOGE / PEPE

Elon Musk concept / AI concept

3. KOLs repost + hype in groups
4. Emotions peak, retail investors go crazy chasing
5. Whales quietly dump, price crashes sharply

Signals you see:

Sudden Twitter frenzy

Only one sentence left in the group: “If you don’t buy, you’ll miss out forever”

👉 The truth in one sentence:

When you can recite the story, it’s basically the end

②【Liquidity Trap (Fake Excitement)】

Looks tradable, but actually can’t get out

Common tactics:

Trading volume looks high

But the order book is extremely thin

Sell one order and break through the price

Huge slippage, impossible to escape

Typical signs:

Smooth when pumping

Drops sharply like a needle stabbing to the bottom

👉 The truth in one sentence:

You think you’re trading, but actually you’re “liquidity”

③【Community Pump-and-Dump Scam (Emotional Hijacking)】

The most sinister and ruthless type

Common phrases:

“Selling means you don’t believe”

“We are a community, not a whale coin”

“People who sell now will regret it later”

Actual situation:

Core addresses have already sold out

Remaining people comfort each other

Coin price steadily declines

👉 The truth in one sentence:

The ones telling you “don’t sell” have usually already sold out

Here are 3 Meme coin survival principles (very important):

1️⃣ Only participate in the first half of the emotion, don’t buy into faith 2️⃣ When it rises, it’s everyone’s; when it falls, it’s definitely yours 3️⃣ When you start hesitating whether to sell, it’s already time to sell

An honest word (from a trading perspective):

Meme coins are not for “research,” they’re for “execution.” The slower you execute, the more profit becomes someone else’s!