Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message

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 …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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