I've been saying this since day 1!!! with a post from a paid down ramper to prove it.....
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A prominent online investment personality could be jailed after pleading guilty to an
illegal pump-and-dump scheme.
Gabriel Govinda, known online as Fibonarchery, pleaded guilty to 23 charges of stock manipulation and 19 charges of illegal dissemination yesterday.
The Melbourne man is the first person to be convicted under s1041D of the Corporations Act.
Govinda used 13 different share trading accounts held in the names of friends and relatives to boost the share price of 20 different stocks.
By trading between different accounts he controlled, Govinda falsely increased the perceived demand and price of the stocks.
He then bragged of his actions on the chat forum hotcrapper.
"Dummy bids are all part of the fun and games and cat and mouse of the stockmarket!" Govinda wrote in one post.
He is facing a maximum penalty of 10 years' prison and a fine of up to $765,000, or both.
The maximum penalty was lifted to 15 years' prison in 2019, but Govinda's pump-and-dump scheme was committed earlier.