You might not think that fraudsters impersonating the SEC would be a significant or ongoing problem but the volume of the SEC’s “Investor Alerts” on this topic would seem to suggest otherwise. On August 5, 2015, the SEC issued the latest update in a series of Investor Alerts it has released entitled, “SEC Warns of Government Impersonators Demanding Money.”
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