3am. Red portfolio. Liquidated. One tab open. I learned everything that night after watching $5,400 vanish into the abyss of 50x leveraged stupidity. Back then, I thought I was a genius for catching a 20% pump on some micro-cap coin, only to realize I was the exit liquidity for the dev team. Today, we call it a pump and dump, but it’s really just a predatory harvest of your FOMO. These schemes follow a rigid script: they orchestrate a vertical move, often buying up the thin order book of an illiquid asset to create the illusion of strength, then flood Telegram and X with paid shills to manufacture hype. They promise the next $BTC, a revolution in tech that will flip $FET, but they deliver nothing but a locked contract...