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Chat group pumps enforcement actions

This library records 11 enforcement actions tagged chat group pumps. A chat group pump is a coordinated buying campaign organised inside a messaging group, where organisers accumulate before announcing a target and sell into the buying their announcement produces.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the chat group pumps technique page.

Actions
11
Total penalties
$1.9m
Median penalty
$966k
Largest
$1.2m
Criminal parallel
27%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. NanoBit Limited, et al. (chat group pumps, 2026) SEC 2026-06-29 $1.2m judgment
Market riggers sentenced in ASX ‘pump and dump’ case (ASIC, 2025) ASIC 2025-12-22 unknown
FCA v. Jean-Noël Yves Alba (chat group pumps, 2025) FCA 2025-07-22 unknown
ASIC secures guilty pleas in Telegram ‘pump and dump’ action (2025) ASIC 2025-06-10 unknown
OSC v. Ontario Securities Commission v Blockratize Inc. and Adventure One QSS Inc. (chat group pumps, 2025) OSC 2025-04-01 judgment
SEC v. NanoBit Limited, Radiant Horizons Limited, Sweet Karma Fashion Inc., Zhao Tropical Deli Inc., Jiajie Liu, Fei Liao, and Hua Zhao (chat group pumps, 2024) SEC 2024-09-17 filed
SEC v. Flyfish Club, LLC (chat group pumps, 2024) SEC 2024-09-16 $750k settled
Charges laid in alleged Telegram ‘pump and dump’ conspiracy following ASIC investigation (ASIC, 2024) ASIC 2024-07-23 filed
SEC v. BarnBridge DAO (chat group pumps, 2023) SEC 2023-12-22 settled
SEC v. Tyler Ward and Troy Murray (chat group pumps, 2023) SEC 2023-12-22 settled
SEC v. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (chat group pumps, 2021) SEC 2021-12-17 filed