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PEPE Poised For 40% Rally, Here’s Why
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Pepe (PEPE), the popular and third-largest crypto meme coin, has successfully formed a bullish price action pattern, garnering significant attention from crypto enthusiasts. Today, March 18, 2025, as sentiment across the crypto landscape begins to shift and assets gain upside momentum, PEPE has reached the breakout level of its bullish price action pattern.
Pepe (PEPE) Technical Analysis and Upcoming Levels
According to CoinPedia’s technical analysis, PEPE has formed a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern on the four-hour timeframe and is currently on the verge of a breakout. After the market witnessed upside momentum, the meme coin soared significantly and reached the breakout area.
Based on the recent price momentum, if PEPE breaks out of the pattern and closes a four-hour candle above the $0.0000075 level, there is a strong possibility it could soar by 40% to reach the next resistance level of $0.00001050 in the coming days.
In trading and investing, a successful breakout of an inverted head and shoulders pattern is always considered a bullish sign and often shifts overall market sentiment.
Expert Bullish Outlook
Looking at the bullish outlook, a crypto expert shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), featuring an eight-hour PEPE chart that appears to be breaching a falling wedge pattern. The expert also noted that if the meme coin successfully breaks out, PEPE could soar by 50% to 60% in the coming days.
Current Price Momentum and Over-Leveraged Levels
PEPE is currently trading near $0.00000733, registering a price surge of over 13% in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, its trading volume has soared by 45%, indicating heightened participation from traders and investors. Additionally, the chart has formed a bullish pattern and is poised for upside momentum.
With the bullish outlook, traders have been strongly betting on the long side, as reported by the on-chain analytics firm Coinglass.
Data reveals that traders are currently over-leveraged at $0.00000693 on the lower side and $0.00000771 on the upper side, holding $4.85 million and $2.35 million worth of long and short positions, respectively. This on-chain data particularly confirms that bulls are currently dominating.
Spanish Police ‘Dismantle $32.6M Bitcoin-themed Crypto Pyramid Scam’
Spanish police officers say they have taken apart a Bitcoin (BTC)-themed crypto pyramid scam that duped victims out of around $32.6 million.
Per the news agency EFE (via Infobae), police officers said they had “dismantled” a “criminal organization” that promoted “fake cryptocurrency investments.”
Spanish Police Make Arrests in Malaga, Madrid, Murcia
Officers said they have arrested eight people, but fear that “more than 3,600 people” have lost money to the crypto scam.
The National Police Corps (CNP)’s Economic and Financial Crime Unit said the network’s mastermind was a “computer programmer” whom they arrested in Malaga.
The CNP also made arrests in the cities of Murcia, and Madrid, detaining people of “various nationalities and backgrounds.”
The detainees include “marketing and web design experts,” officers said.
Police say the group developed a “seemingly legitimate platform that offered clients a choice of Bitcoin investment plans.”
They then allegedly promoted these products on various websites and social media platforms.
Victims, police said, “did not need to know anything about crypto,” as the alleged scam operators “made it easy for people to convert hundreds, even thousands of euros into Bitcoin.”
The alleged scammers were also able to dupe some “victims” into surrendering control of their electronic devices to “carry out crypto transfers themselves, in addition to stealing their personal and banking data.”
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— Cryptonews.com (@cryptonews) March 10, 2025
Operation Began in 2022 – Police
The CNP first learned of the operation in 2022, when a “victim” filed a report in Murcia.
As police investigated, they unearthed a complicated network of investments whereby older investors were paid using newer investors’ funds.
When people tried to withdraw their funds from the platform, the operators would reportedly concoct “obstacles” to delay or obfuscate the process.
One officer told EFE that some “victims” signed “contracts” with the operators, who “promised to pay dividends of 40% after one month,” and “up to 300% after a year.”
The police force eventually found a “trail” of fraud that “included thousands of victims in as many as 36 countries.”
‘Worthless Coin’
The CNP thinks that “at least 3,646 victims” lost their money to the scammers, 2,718 of whom are Spanish residents.
The fraudsters appear to have amassed vast Bitcoin holdings, with crypto wallets containing some BTC 400.
Officers say the masterminds also “created a new, worthless token” to investors.
The victims were mainly individuals who “had never invested in cryptocurrencies” before, the CNP said. Some corporations also fell victim to the scam, officers added.
Officers also froze 73 bank accounts and impounded cars, motorcycles, computer equipment, and hundreds of euros in cash.
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