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Updated Investor Alert: Well-Traveled Fraud—Advance-Fee Scams Target Non-U.S. Investors Using Fake Regulator Websites and Broker Identities
| Updated Investor Alert: "Phishing" and Other Online Identity Theft Scams—Don’t Take the Bait
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It Pays to Understand Your Brokerage Account Statements and Trade Confirmations
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FINRA Investor Education Foundation and United Way Worldwide Announce Over $1.3 Million in Grants for Grassroots Financial Education Projects
The FINRA Foundation and United Way recently awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to 12 recipients as part of the Financial Education in Your Community initiative.
Financial Education in Your Community funds community-based financial education programs across the country. The two-year grants were competitively awarded to local United Ways and other non-profit groups.
"These local organizations have a unique ability to provide low- and middle-income Americans with the information and support they need to make sound financial decisions and save for their long-term financial security," said Gerri Walsh, President of the FINRA Foundation.
Learn more about the grantees and their projects.
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2/23/12 – FINRA Issues New Investor Alert to Help Investors Understand Their Brokerage Account Statements | |
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Non-U.S. investors should beware that scammers are using fraud—including setting up phony "regulator" websites and fake identities—to separate you from your money. We have updated this Alert to tell you about a scam in the United Kingdom where investors receive calls to purchase pre-IPO shares of Facebook. Fraudsters use an an array of high-pressured sales tactics to convince investors to send money to lock in the purchase of non-existent shares of the social networking company. 
