The Cyprus Securities and Alternate Fee
(CySEC) has detected new circumstances of individuals and pretend web sites impersonating its
officers, representatives and authorized web site. The Cypriot monetary markets
regulator introduced on Tuesday that these circumstances “are a part of a classy
on-line marketing campaign to defraud traders.”
CySEC, due to this fact, warned traders to be further
vigilant of imposters soliciting charges in trade for settlement of bogus
compensation claims associated to corporations below its supervision. The watchdog emphasised
that it by no means sends unsolicited messages to traders or members of the general public.
It added that it doesn’t additionally demand private monetary
knowledge or in any other case.
Rip-off Strategies
In line with CySEC, the latest circumstances of
impersonation took varied types, together with fraudsters
claiming to be CySEC officers or appointed representatives of the regulator
resembling authorized advisors. A few of them additionally pretended to be from different actual or pretend
Cypriot supervisory authorities.
“The scammers contact shoppers of CySEC-regulated
entities, usually through emails and typically by phone, which seem real and
embrace the identify, handle, official stamp and emblem of CySEC, fraudulently
copying CySEC officers’ signatures,” CySEC additional defined.
One other type the fraudsters take, the market
supervisor additional warned, is by pretending to be aiding traders in regaining their compensation claims from offers they might have had with authorized corporations.
These are usually on-line buying and selling corporations that provide speculative funding
merchandise, CySEC famous, including that “via these preliminary contacts, the
fraudsters illegally get hold of further private info.”
Faux Web sites
In a separate assertion on
Tuesday, CySEC additionally disclosed that it has recognized 5 pretend web sites
impersonating its unique web site. These web sites are cysec-regulatory.com, www.cysecsupport.on-line, www.cysec-support.on-line, www.cysecgov.com
and www.cysecs.group.
“CySEC doesn’t authorize, confirm, monitor, nor
is it in any manner concerned in school actions, compensation schemes, funds
between pure or authorized entities or any public or personal companies,” CySEC stated. The regulator additionally urged traders to substantiate the
authenticity of no matter message that purportedly originates from them via the
e-mail, information@cysec.gov.cy, earlier than taking any actions.
Earlier Circumstances
In April, CySEC issued a
comparable warning,
noting that fraudsters have been presenting themselves as CySEC officers or
representatives. These scammers are focusing on traders, attempting to solicit them
for charges in trade for the settlement of bogus compensation claims, the
regulator stated.
Final yr, CySEC detected a
pretend web site, www.cysec.gov.cy,
that was hosted in India and was impersonating its unique web site. The regulator
famous that the pretend web site illegally copied contents from its web site, thereby
giving a misunderstanding that it was actual.
The Cyprus Securities and Alternate Fee
(CySEC) has detected new circumstances of individuals and pretend web sites impersonating its
officers, representatives and authorized web site. The Cypriot monetary markets
regulator introduced on Tuesday that these circumstances “are a part of a classy
on-line marketing campaign to defraud traders.”
CySEC, due to this fact, warned traders to be further
vigilant of imposters soliciting charges in trade for settlement of bogus
compensation claims associated to corporations below its supervision. The watchdog emphasised
that it by no means sends unsolicited messages to traders or members of the general public.
It added that it doesn’t additionally demand private monetary
knowledge or in any other case.
Rip-off Strategies
In line with CySEC, the latest circumstances of
impersonation took varied types, together with fraudsters
claiming to be CySEC officers or appointed representatives of the regulator
resembling authorized advisors. A few of them additionally pretended to be from different actual or pretend
Cypriot supervisory authorities.
“The scammers contact shoppers of CySEC-regulated
entities, usually through emails and typically by phone, which seem real and
embrace the identify, handle, official stamp and emblem of CySEC, fraudulently
copying CySEC officers’ signatures,” CySEC additional defined.
One other type the fraudsters take, the market
supervisor additional warned, is by pretending to be aiding traders in regaining their compensation claims from offers they might have had with authorized corporations.
These are usually on-line buying and selling corporations that provide speculative funding
merchandise, CySEC famous, including that “via these preliminary contacts, the
fraudsters illegally get hold of further private info.”
Faux Web sites
In a separate assertion on
Tuesday, CySEC additionally disclosed that it has recognized 5 pretend web sites
impersonating its unique web site. These web sites are cysec-regulatory.com, www.cysecsupport.on-line, www.cysec-support.on-line, www.cysecgov.com
and www.cysecs.group.
“CySEC doesn’t authorize, confirm, monitor, nor
is it in any manner concerned in school actions, compensation schemes, funds
between pure or authorized entities or any public or personal companies,” CySEC stated. The regulator additionally urged traders to substantiate the
authenticity of no matter message that purportedly originates from them via the
e-mail, information@cysec.gov.cy, earlier than taking any actions.
Earlier Circumstances
In April, CySEC issued a
comparable warning,
noting that fraudsters have been presenting themselves as CySEC officers or
representatives. These scammers are focusing on traders, attempting to solicit them
for charges in trade for the settlement of bogus compensation claims, the
regulator stated.
Final yr, CySEC detected a
pretend web site, www.cysec.gov.cy,
that was hosted in India and was impersonating its unique web site. The regulator
famous that the pretend web site illegally copied contents from its web site, thereby
giving a misunderstanding that it was actual.
