Published by CryptoLiveHelp 2 November 2026
Fake CEO fraud: a source record attributed to Autorité des marchés financiers in Quebec. Check the exact identity and linked source finding.
Identity and source
- Name in source
- Fake CEO fraud
- Source authority
- Autorité des marchés financiers
- Jurisdiction
- Quebec
- Source category
- Unregistered/Unlicensed entity offering financial products or services
- Source validation date
- 2022-04-08
- Source modification date
- 2022-04-08
- Additional source information
- The AMF has received information that a scammer sent a company’s employee an e-mail signed by the CEO requesting that that the employee perform a transaction on a priority basis in connection with a takeover bid. An individual claiming to be a lawyer then made several calls to the employee to confirm the amounts to be transferred. To make the request seem even more credible, the employee was told the transaction was authorized by the AMF, which was not the case.
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