From past few weeks whenever I open any browser or social media all I could see is some random blogs and news about Altcoins which will have massive pump and which coins I have to invest.
Folks, it's times to be more cautious than every and never go with any random prediction provided over telegram or through blogs as it's a routine that once the crypto market is trending upwards and bullrun is expected we see a lot of experts in the market via various channels like Youtube, Twitter, Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp group sharing random coins with catchy headlines like "Top 5 altcoins with 100x pump", "Whales are investing in these altcoins", "Altcoins which will go to moon", etc.
Please try to understand these are the same people who spreads fud during bear market and impersonates as experts.
Don't go with any such predictions and rather do your own research because I have seen people randomly investing into shitcoins just because it's mentioned over Twitter and the person who has tweeted has huge followers. There will be so much of deceiving as they will share some 10 coins and even if one of them prospers they will use it as upselling point.
Truth!
They will always be there at both bear and bull times but we have to be more cautious at these moments of time. Do remember, there are those who are trying to pump a coin that had been in their safekeeping for years and they want to ROI using the bull run now. I won't bite on that trap because I already did before and I learned my lesson.
There are also projects that will try to revive their coin but the truth is they are already dead, they are just trying to make money out of nothing or they still have a large volume of that coin. Although they are listed on some unknown exchange, they are still dust and they will take advantage of this opportunity to sell it if they can somehow increase the demand even with just a cent of a dollar.
Let us all be careful and I agree with OP that investors should understand that this ain't really new but all must be warned just so we won't forget. Let us try to minimize the victims of such phenomena.
Yup, though this happens every time it's our duty to educate the crowd in advance as we there has been sudden surge in these activities as we are on upward trend and as you said it would only get worst in upcoming days. Just a suggestion that everyone should do their bit and spread word of awareness if any of our friends or family members or colleague discusses about such channels or influencers or predictions.
There are people who are doing this just for view for their reels or YouTube channels, also there are those who wants to trap us in buying their premium membership program and then there are people who are worse than previous two categories and they are the ones you have mentioned who accumulate shitcoins and holds a huge amount of it, trying to manipulate users to buy it so that it would trigger pump and then they will dump their holdings and buyers will have millions of worthless tokens in their wallet.