Betterment’s Financial App Sends Customers A $10,000 Crypto Scam Message

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Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification connected Friday asking users to nonstop $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread connected Reddit. The Betterment relationship says successful an X thread that this was an "unauthorized message" that was sent via a "third-party system."

Here's nan notification that immoderate group got, per a screenshot successful nan Reddit thread (some reported getting a akin notification over email, too):

We'll triple your crypto! (Limited Time)

Bryan: Betterment is giving back!

We're celebrating our best-performing twelvemonth yet by tripling Bitcoin and Ethere …

Read nan afloat communicative astatine The Verge.

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