Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message
TL;DR
Betterment's financial app sent an unauthorized notification promising to triple crypto investments by sending $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets, which the company attributed to a third-party system breach.
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 …