Stopping Affinity Fraud in Your Community
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STOPPING AFFINITY FRAUD IN YOUR COMMUNITY is a booklet designed to raise awareness about investment scams that target groups. It describes key strategies to protect yourself and your community from the potentially devastating impact of crooks who infiltrate ethnic, religious, and other groups to work investment scams from within.
- Provider
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Price
- Free
- Published / Released Year
- 2016
- Format and Delivery
- Online Accessible
- Resource Type
- Information
- Target Audience
- High School, College/Postsecondary
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Jump$tart Standards
- Yes
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