The AMF warns against scams that offer offers to buy company shares at a discount

Watch out for scams. This Monday, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) pointed to fraudulent proposals to invest in the securities of large companies at a price lower than their official price. Some of these proposals concern American tech giants.

These fraudulent offers to purchase shares of listed companies at preferential prices concern “for example American technology stocks or French stocks well known to the general public”, details the stock market policeman in a press release.

Identity theft

They are the work of unauthorized actors or impersonating European financial institutions and can be presented in the form of booklets, such as a “GAFA booklet with guaranteed capital and indexation to the performance of Google Amazon shares Facebook Apple”, or a “Tesla Apple Facebook booklet”.

False intermediaries also offer to buy Française des jeux (FDJ) shares at an allegedly discounted price, adds the AMF, which had already alerted the public to these fraudulent proposals to buy FDJ shares in November 2019.

More than a hundred complaints

Shortly after making the transfers, the victims are no longer able to reach the bogus advisers or recover their funds.

Since the spring of 2021, the AMF claims to have received more than a hundred complaints and reports concerning this type of investment proposal, the average loss of which amounts to 55,000 euros for aggrieved savers, generally solicited by email or telephone. , after leaving their details on contact forms on the Internet.