Technologies like mobile trading apps and artificial intelligence can provide benefits to investors—but they also create opportunities for scammers.

If you get an unsolicited phone call, text, or email from someone asking you for money, it’s probably a scam, not a "once in a lifetime opportunity.

Whether it's promises of "risk-free" opportunities, too-good-to-be-true offers, or pressure to invest now, make sure you know the red flags of investment fraud—so you can protect your money.

Knowledge about tactics and types of scams can protect you from investment fraud. Test your fraud-fighting knowledge today with Investor.gov's Fraud Literacy Quiz!