If you get email claiming to be from the Regulatory Compliance Commission, the International Compliance Commission, the International Regulatory Commission, the International Exchange Regulatory Commission, the International Shareholder Protection Division, or some similar sounding agency, offering you an investment opportunity, the best investment you can make is in the energy to hit ‘delete’.

This new scam making the rounds is claiming to originate with a fake regulatory agency (the above are some of the names which have appeared in the scam), linking to websites and vouching for certain “brokers” or otherwise offering to the recipient a deal on stock.

However, according to American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) president and New Jersey Securities Bureau chief Franklin Widmann…

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