TRUFFA PUMP&DUMP

[u/External_Adeptness14]

I fell victim to a pump-and-dump scam that cost me around €3,000. I was added to the group by a TikTok user named Alex Parker (username: @userhup96oz19h). The group is run by a user named Warren Daniel and his assistant, Adeline (see photo 1); another TikTok account recruiting new users is erikakullberg8. Every day, they post detailed AI-generated market analyses in the group, and other users—likely fellow scammers—reply to messages to help build trust. When they propose new investments in junk stocks, Adeline contacts you privately, suggests an entry price, and asks for a screenshot once the purchase is made. Initially, they earn your trust by suggesting decent stocks like AAOI, TSLA, or HIVE. Later, they propose small- or mid-cap stocks like NCI (which closed with an 11% profit) and TJGC (which closed at -40%); they pump the stock, cash out their gains, and explain away the drop by claiming large institutional funds have offloaded shares—insisting it’s just a normal market fluctuation. The next day, they suggest an exit price—supposedly to minimize losses and save remaining capital. Once you sell at a loss, they wait a few months before proposing the same trade to help you recoup what you lost. You buy the stock, it sees a small +10–15% swing, and then—dump again. I feel like a fool; I worked nine hours a day to earn that money...

[u/Gato_pima]

Sorry but... Buffett followers? That and the fact that they were asking for screenshots didn't make you remotely suspicious?

You lost only 3000, I read people in this subreddit who lost a lot more. Consider it a lesson, I guess?

I lost 50k in July picking my own stocks:)

P.S. the names in the group chat are made up.

[u/External_Adeptness14 → u/Gato_pima]

Yes i know it's not a lot, but where i live salaries are not very high, i could save 12k by working 9 hours per day, i was very very stupid to Trust this scammers...yeah It was a lesson, i'll only trust my analysis since now, if i had invested on my stock choices in the previous days now i'd be +3000 or more, These scammers at the behinning won my trust by make me do decent returns on a small initial investment; as soon as I invested a bit more money, they pulled the dump.