From impersonating senior public figures to promoting fraudulent investment platforms with the help of artificial intelligence, scammers have been searching for new ways to con islanders in recent months – and have now prompted Jersey’s financial services watchdog to issue a warning about…itself?
The Jersey Financial Services Commission has this week put out an alert about a website and email addresses “falsely impersonating the JFSC”.
The warning explained that the impersonating website displays signs “of being set up for fraudulent purposes” and reminded islanders to only use the JFSC’s official website: www.jerseyfsc.org.
The Commission stressed that it “does not offer services to recover money lost to scams and would never request bank details from a member of the public in this regard”.
It also reminded islanders to ensure correspondence from the JFSC matches its official email domain: @jerseyfsc.org.
The alert comes just over a week after a warning about scammers impersonating investment and trading websites falsely purporting to be regulated by the JFSC.
Jersey’s Cyber Security Centre recently launched a free email newsletter designed to help islanders strengthen their digital defences and protect themselves online.