The issues frequent bulletins about what it calls “investment frauds and scams” — a frightening taxonomy of plots and stratagems aimed at separating investors from their money.
The agency’s alerts range from warnings of Madoff-style to “pump and dump” operations intended to temporarily inflate a stock price. They also include cautionary notes about polite offers of assistance from predators posing as government regulators.
Lately, though, the S.E.C. has been giving a warning of a different sort.
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