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Updated Investor Bulletin: Lost and Stolen Securities

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate investors about lost and stolen securities and the Commission’s Lost and Stolen Securities Program (“LSSP”), a database for securities certificates reported lost, stolen, missing, or counterfeit.

Investor Alert: Beware of False Claims of SEC Registration

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Alert to warn investors about potentially fraudulent investment schemes that involve individuals or firms misrepresenting that they are registered with the SEC. Investors should be careful to check the background, including license and registration status, of any person who tries to sell them an investment product or service, and should avoid investing with anyone who falsely represents that they are registered with the SEC.

Boletín del Inversionista: Conceptos básicos sobre ahorros e inversión para el personal militar

La Office of Investor Education and Advocacy de la SEC publica este Boletín del Inversionista para ayudar al personal militar a tomar decisiones informadas sobre ahorros e inversión y evitar las estafas comunes. A continuación, aparece una lista de diez sugerencias que podrían ayudarle al personal militar, y a cualquier inversionista, a tomar decisiones financieras sólidas y a evitar fraudes.

Investor Alert: Beware of Pyramid Schemes Posing as Multi-Level Marketing Programs

The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Alert to warn individual investors about pyramid schemes, a type of investment scam that fraudsters often pitch as a legitimate business opportunity in the form of multi-level marketing programs.

Investor Alert: SEC Warns of Fake Correspondence

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Alert to warn investors about fraudulent solicitations using correspondence claiming to be from SEC staff and Commissioners (including phony letters using the SEC seal and purporting to be signed by Commissioner Daniel Gallagher).

Investor Alert: Investment Scams Exploit Immigrant Investor Program

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are jointly issuing this Investor Alert to warn individual investors about fraudulent investment scams that exploit the Immigrant Investor Program, also known as "EB-5."

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