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SIPC Issues Warning About Web-Based "Brokerage Identity Theft" Scams Targeting Investors

Investors and brokers need to be on their guard against a new fraud scheme in which con artists are falsely posing on the web as authentic brokerage firms that are members of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which maintains a special reserve fund to protect the customers of insolvent brokerage firms. Con artists set up a Web site that uses the name of an actual SIPC member brokerage firm, but with a different address or use the name (and, in some cases, the address) of an actual registered broker, and then sets up a bogus entity using that person's name and address. Read more...

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