On August 20, FINRA warned member firms about a rash of imposter websites, using registered representative’s names, pictures, CRD numbers and other information to gull investors into providing personally-identifying information to fraudsters.
FINRA suggests member firms should contact the FBI and financial regulators, and posting a notification to investors on their legitimate websites. Other response measures include conducting a who-is search, complaining to host ISP or domain-name registrar, among others.
Websites maintained by FINRA member firms and their ...