FCA warns of fresh trio of fake emails

Second incident in three months

Tom Ellis
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning about fake emails that appear to have been sent from its own email addresses, for the second time in three months.

A statement on the regulator's website said three seperate emails appear to have been sent by [email protected], [email protected] and one from [email protected] entitled 'FCA regulation 2017'.  The regulator said it had not sent these emails and warned recipients to delete the fake emails without opening them.  It is not the first time this year the regulator has had issues with fake emails seeming to come from its own email addresses. It experienced similar troubles in January when it warned an email appeared to have been sent by [email protected].  In Janua...

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