ASL Video - SEC Investor Alert!

VIDEO [CC] - SEC Investor Alert Regarding Web-Based Scheme Targeting Deaf Investors: American Sign Language Version.

UNITED STATES - SEC Investor Alert Regarding Web-Based Scheme Targeting Deaf Investors: The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has charged an Internet-based investment company, Imperia Invest IBC ("Imperia"), with securities fraud for soliciting several million dollars from U.S. investors and promising guaranteed annual returns in excess of 1.2% per day while in reality siphoning the funds into foreign bank accounts and not paying any money back to investors.

TEXAS - A Texas man who allegedly solicited $3.45 million from more than 7000 Deaf investors before securities regulators stopped him last year has been charged with fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Jody Dunn... Read more: Texan Defrauded Deaf Investors Out of $3.45M -investmentnews.com



WISCONSIN - A multi-million-dollar international swindle targeting Deaf investors that recently drew federal warnings has snagged at least a dozen Wisconsin residents, investigators at the Department of Financial Institutions report... Read more: Swindle Targeting Deaf Investors Ensnares Wisconsin Residents -madison.com



NEW YORK - I-Team 10 investigation from the NBC report. It's a new twist on an old credit card scam and it's really repugnant. These schemers are posing as customers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and using a telephone relay service to try to exploit these businesses... Read more: I-Team 10 investigation: Scammers Posing as Deaf Customers; Target Local Businesses -whec.com



NORTH CAROLINA - A common scam lately — known as the “overpayment scam” — happens when a person places an item for sale online (or through a print publication such as the Bolivar Herald-Free Press that also places its classified ads online) and then receives a call from someone through the Telecommunication Device for the Deaf relay service, or TTY, wanting to purchase the item... Read more: The Scam Artist’s Next Victim — Don’t Let It Be You -bolivarmonews.com



FBI GOV. - The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at www.ic3.gov lists 18 Internet crime schemes and that is just schemes related to the Internet, not including schemes that are carried out by phone or U.S. Mail.



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