Warning against impersonation attempts.

Firms working in strategic intelligence are regularly the target of impersonation campaigns, which exploit their institutional reputation to conduct financial scams, phishing or recruitment fraud. These campaigns require no compromise on our part: they simply use our name, visual identity or public communications to give credit to fraudulent solicitations.

This page has been created as a preventive and defensive measure. It aims to protect recipients of any communication claiming to be from our firm by providing them with authentication elements to distinguish a legitimate communication from a fraudulent attempt.

Fake investment opportunity emails. You receive an email purportedly signed by a member of the firm, offering you an exclusive investment opportunity, an intelligence report to purchase, or participation in a confidential transaction. Arden Cole never solicits investment, never sells reports door-to-door, and never offers transactions through unsolicited email.

Fake job offers. You receive a job proposal with a request to transmit your identity documents, your bank details, or to pay processing fees. Arden Cole never requests payment as part of a recruitment process and never solicits bank details before a signed contract. Any offer published in our name must be cross-referenced with our Careers page.

Fake invoices and payment requests. An invoice is sent to you for services you never ordered, or an email asks you to modify the bank details of a current payment. Any legitimate billing is the subject of a previously signed contract. In case of doubt, contact us via the official form.

Fake social media profiles. LinkedIn, X or Telegram accounts may claim to represent our firm or its collaborators without authorisation. Our only official account is our LinkedIn page, accessible from the footer of this site.

Domain phishing. Emails may come from addresses resembling our domain (for example ardencole-group.com, arden-cole.com, or with deceptive Unicode characters). Our only official domain is ardencolegroup.com.

A legitimate communication from Arden Cole Group always combines the following characteristics:

It is preceded by an initial exchange via our official contact form, never an unsolicited email.

It falls within the framework of a previously contracted mandate or an explicit exchange that you initiated.

It never requests bank details, urgent payment, cryptocurrency transfer, or transmission of identity documents through unsecured electronic means.

It uses only the ardencolegroup.com domain or an explicit subdomain thereof. Any other extension is suspicious.

It never plays on artificial urgency, never threatens financial consequences, and never offers reward in exchange for immediate action.

If you receive a suspicious communication claiming to be from our firm:

Do not respond to the email and do not click on any links it contains.

Do not transmit any document, any bank details, any payment.

Verify the sender's address in its entirety, paying attention to character substitutions (letter o replaced by zero, letter l by digit 1, etc.).

Report the attempt to us via our contact form, forwarding the complete headers of the message if possible. This information is valuable to us in mapping ongoing campaigns and alerting other potential victims.

If you have suffered harm, file a complaint with the competent authorities of your country (in Switzerland: cantonal police or National Cybersecurity Centre NCSC; in France: PHAROS platform or police station; in the EU: national police authorities).

Arden Cole Group commits to publishing on this page any recurring fraudulent campaign identified as concerning us. We actively cooperate with the competent authorities when location elements of the fraudsters are available. The protection of our institutional reputation and of the trust our clients place in us is a shared responsibility that we take with the utmost seriousness.