The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has is­sued a third pub­lic warn­ing on the grow­ing threat of in­vest­ment scams. The alert fol­lows two pre­vi­ous no­tices in No­vem­ber 2024 and Feb­ru­ary 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to TTSEC, mem­bers of the pub­lic con­tin­ue to fall vic­tim to in­creas­ing­ly so­phis­ti­cat­ed schemes. The Com­mis­sion has urged in­di­vid­u­als to ex­er­cise cau­tion and re­main in­formed about the tac­tics fraud­sters use to gain trust and ac­cess to funds.

TTSEC out­lined sev­er­al red flags that may in­di­cate fraud­u­lent in­vest­ment op­er­a­tions.