Adams Street Partners: BaFin warns consumers about identity fraud in WhatsApp groups
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Summary
According to information available to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), unknown persons purporting to work for Adams Street Partners LLC or its Munich-based subsidiary Adams Street (Europe) GmbH are using WhatsApp groups and chats to contact investors. The groups are purportedly run by a partner of the firm who is described as the “Project Manager of ASP Investment Management Company”. There is no connection whatsoever between these groups and Adams Street Partners LLC, Ada...