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Investor Advisories

Topic
Year
October 9, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: Investment Professional Disclosure Forms – What Should Investors Look For?

This investor alert explains why investors should carefully review every disclosure document they receive from investment professionals, regardless of whom they consider working with.
October 9, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: “Registered, Professional” Crypto Trader Scams

This investor alert explains how investors can protect themselves from fraudsters posing as registered professional crypto traders.
October 7, 2024

NASAA Investor Bulletin: Technology and Digital Finance: World Investor Week 2024

NASAA and its partners are jointly issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors with information for World Investor Week 2024, a global campaign promoted by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to raise awareness about the importance of investor education and protection.
September 10, 2024

NASAA Investor Alert: Relationship Investment Scams

NASAA and its partners are jointly issuing this Investor Alert to warn investors about relationship investment scams, where fraudsters — including criminals and other bad actors — often hide their true identities, reach out to unsuspecting targets (often online or through text messages), gain their trust over time, and then defraud them through fake investments.
August 14, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: Spoofing/Phishing Scams

This investor alert provides information on spoofing and phishing attacks by scammers. Spoofing and phishing are tactics cybercriminals use to gain a person’s trust so they can be manipulated into divulging personal or sensitive information which the cybercriminal will use fraudulently.
July 19, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: Precious Metals and Coin Investments

This investor alert provides information investors should consider before investing in precious metals.
May 15, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: Mobile App Scams

Mobile apps: they’re everywhere. There are millions to explore, and app stores may not have the resources or expertise to verify that every single app uploaded to their store is safe for consumers to use. This includes apps that provide investing services, so investors should be cautious when providing money or personal information. This investor alert explains how mobile app scams work, red flags, and how to protect yourself from investment fraud.
February 8, 2024

Informed Investor Advisory: Don’t Get Swept Away by a Romance Scam

Dating apps and social media platforms may be good ways to meet new people but be cautious if someone turns a burgeoning online romance into an opportunity to solicit an investment or ask to borrow money. Scammers are increasingly posing as potential romantic partners to lure people into fraudulent investment schemes. This alert discusses some common tactics fraudsters use in investment-related romance scams and points out things you can do to protect yourself from these schemes.
January 25, 2024

NASAA Investor Alert: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Investment Fraud

NASAA and its partners are jointly issuing this Investor Alert to make investors aware of the increase of investment frauds involving the purported use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies. Individual investors should know that bad actors are using the growing popularity and complexity of AI to lure victims into scams.
August 29, 2023

Informed Investor Advisory: Will the Real Adviser or Broker Please Stand Up?

Scammers will go to any length to steal your money and personal information, including using technology and publicly available information to impersonate someone else. By taking information from a public database of brokers and investment advisers, a scammer could pretend to be a legitimate investment professional, earn your trust, and steal your identity or convince you to send them money. A little bit of research can prevent you from falling for their schemes.




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