According to security researchers at Cisco Talos, emails impersonating legitimate officers at the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission are being sent to prior Opteck customers that offer victim's with investment advice.
What's interesting in this scam is the desire to have a 20-minute phone interview (to determine the victim’s interest and to further establish credibility), followed by an email stating (here it comes) the victim will need to a “verification” process – which, of course doesn’t involve verification… other than creating a crypto wallet and then having the victim engage in some scammy back and forth transactions that, in the end, have the victim sending money to the scammer, and the scammer sending nothing promised in return.
The big red flag here is the promise to recover an large sum of money unrelated to the specific amount invested. Employees within organizations seeing emails promising this or anything else of value that isn’t expected should immediately ignore the offer and delete the email.
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