A ’sophisticated’ Internet scam stole users’ identities using Cra...
A “sophisticated” Internet scam stole users’ identities using Craigslist and made more than $66,000 in seven weeks, the SEC said. One or more “unknown traders” ran a bogus job ad for “AWE Trading,” ostensibly a brokerage in Latvia, the…
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commission said. Supposedly to check respondents’ backgrounds, the crooks requested personal information that they used to open stock-trading accounts at Interactive Brokers LLC. The thieves also gained unauthorized online access to accounts of customers of various retail brokerage firms and purchased and sold at least 18 securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, the SEC said. In other agency news, a new SEC Web page offers interactive data on mutual funds. The Mutual Fund Reader site posts material from funds on cost, risk, investment aims and strategies and historical performance. Information is in XBRL, a language that labels companies’ financial and other data for search, comparison and analysis.