
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 …