Pump Check

Paste a stock pitch — an email, DM, tweet, Discord/Telegram message, or newsletter. Pump Check reads it for the documented signs of pump-and-dump promotion, each cited to the SEC and FINRA. It does not predict price, give advice, or call any company a scam — it shows you the tells and the real odds. You decide. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

And a few things about the setup (optional — check what's true):

I didn't ask for this. It arrived unsolicited — a DM, email, or post I didn't sign up for. It's an OTC / "pink" stock — not listed on Nasdaq or NYSE. Price/volume spiked recently with no SEC filing to explain it. There was a recent reverse stock split. It's sub-$1 with a tiny float (a small amount of money moves the price a lot).

The odds, no matter what the pitch says

Promoted OTC stocks lose money on average. The SEC's own study of ~1.8M trades found a median return around −12% on promoted OTC names. (SEC DERA, White 2016.)
Under 1% of active day traders are reliably profitable; over 80% lose, and ~93% quit within five years. (Barber & Odean, Taiwan; Brazil: 97% of persistent day-traders lost.)
Stops don't save you here. Penny stocks gap −40 to −80% overnight on dilution news and get halted for up to 10 trading days — a stop-loss can't fill through that.
The structure is built to extract. Toxic "death-spiral" financiers, insiders dumping into hype, and market makers on wide spreads are engineered to win. If you can't name who's losing on the other side of your trade, you're the one losing it.

Pump Check's whole promise: it surfaces what's documented and what the odds are. It will never tell you a stock will go up — because no honest tool can.