Leone and Doane spread false and misleading information.1CM INC. is the classic pump and dump scheme; as fraudsters, Lucas Leone and Martin Doane spread false and misleading information to create a buying frenzy that will “pump” up the stock price and then “dump” the stock by selling their shares at the inflated price. False or misleading information about Leviathan and the 1CM company’s spread through sources including social med, investiment news letters, online advertisements, email, Internet chat rooms, direct mail, newspapers, magazines, and radio.1CM is particularly vulnerable to pump-and-dump schemes because it has publicly-available information.