Crypto Assets
If you are considering an investment opportunity involving crypto assets, here are some resources to help you better understand these complex topics:
Understand Your Investments
- Technology and Digital Finance: World Investor Week 2024 — Investor Bulletin (Oct. 2024)
- Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) Providing Exposure to Bitcoin and Ether – Investor Bulletin (Sept. 2024)
- Investor Resilience, Crypto Assets, and Sustainable Finance: World Investor Week 2023 — Investor Bulletin (Sep. 2023)
- Updated Investor Bulletin: Leveraged and Inverse ETFs (Aug. 2023)
Many relationship investment scams involve crypto assets.
In relationship investment scams, 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.
Relationship investment scams are sometimes referred to by various terms including romance scams, “cryptocurrency” investment scams, financial grooming scams, and even the distasteful term “pig butchering scams.” Learn more about these types of scams and how to avoid them on our Relationship Investment Scams webpage.
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Additional Information
- FBI Public Service Announcement: Fictitious Law Firms Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Victims Offering to Recover Funds (June 2024)
- Investor Resilience (Oct. 2022)
- Crypto Asset Interest-bearing Accounts (Feb. 2022)
- Digital Asset and “Crypto” Investment Scams (Sept. 2021)
- Funds Trading in Bitcoin Futures (June 2021)
- Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) (Jan. 2020)
- Beware of Claims That the SEC Has Approved Offerings (Apr. 2019)
- The SEC Has an Opportunity You Won’t Want to Miss: Act Now! (May 2018)
- Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets (Mar. 2018)
- SEC Statement Urging Caution Around Celebrity Backed ICOs (Nov. 2017)
- Celebrity Endorsements (Nov. 2017)
- Public Companies Making ICO-Related Claims (Aug. 2017) (also available in Spanish, Las empresas públicas que hacen declaraciones relacionadas a las ICO.)
- Initial Coin Offerings (July 2017) (also available in Spanish, Oferta inicial de criptomonedas.)
- Bitcoin and Other Virtual Currency-Related Investments (May 2014)
- Ponzi Schemes Using Virtual Currencies (July 2013)
- Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology
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- Report a possible securities fraud
- Use our online forms to ask a question or report a problem concerning your investments
- Email us at Help@sec.gov
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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