Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an “unauthorized message” that was sent via a “third-party system.”
Here’s the notification that some people got, per a screenshot in the Reddit thread (some reported getting a similar notification over email, too):
We’ll triple your crypto! (Limited Time)
Bryan: Betterment is giving back!
We’re celebrating our best-performing year yet by tripling Bitcoin and Ethere …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/860106/betterment-crypto-scam-notification
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