[Infostock Daily= Reporter Lee Kang-wook] The Financial Supervisory Service announced on the 27th that it had detected 45 illegal cases such as providing exaggerated returns by conducting a collective inspection of 314 similar investment advisory companies last year and informed the investigation agencies.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service, 23 cases were found to be violating the reporting obligations that occurred when changing the name, representative, and location, and 15 cases were detected for unregistered investment advisory and discretionary activities that provide investment information to customers through KakaoTalk chat rooms.
In addition, there were four unlicensed investment trading and brokerage activities such as recommending unlisted stocks purchased in advance as promising stocks and selling them to investors, and four false and exaggerated advertisements such as "achieving cumulative return of 1800%".
The Financial Supervisory Service said, "Consumer damage is continuing due to false and exaggerated advertisements by similar investment advisors." Investors should check whether the investment rate is based on objective data. " said.
Reporter Lee Kang-wook gaguzi@naver.com
