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Shorting Obvious Pump and Dump Penny Stocks
Shorting penny stocks is very risky.  For example, read this investopedia article, which explains some of the problems.  In general: If you have some sort of method for perfectly identifying Pump and Dump schemes, it's possible you could make money if you time things right, but that timing is going to be very difficult to identify.