(2000) BEFORE GAMESTOP: The 15-Year-Old Who Manipulated the Stock Market @HezakyaNewz

Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Long before the "Meme Stock" craze or WallStreetBets, Lebed used the early internet (specifically Yahoo! Finance chat rooms) to execute a classic "pump and dump" scheme. He would buy cheap stocks, hype them up online using hundreds of fake accounts, and sell them as soon as the price spiked—all from his bedroom computer.

This report captures the SEC's crackdown on the "Wall Street Whiz Kid," resulting in a historic settlement where he was forced to return $285,000 in illegal profits. The interview is a fascinating time capsule of the Dot Com bubble, where a high schooler could outsmart—and manipulate—adult investors.

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(2000) BEFORE GAMESTOP: "The 15-Year-Old Who Manipulated the Stock Market"