The SEC Whistleblower Program pays 10–30% of sanctions exceeding $1 million to insiders who provide original, credible information about securities violations.
Submit Your InformationYour tip must be original — meaning it's not already known to the SEC. Insider information, internal documents, and firsthand knowledge of ongoing violations qualify.
The SEC allows anonymous tips through an attorney. Your identity remains protected throughout the investigation and is only disclosed if required by a court proceeding.
If SEC enforcement action results in sanctions over $1 million, whistleblowers receive 10–30% of the total collected. Awards have reached into the hundreds of millions.
Falsified financial statements, improper revenue recognition, off-balance-sheet arrangements, and material misrepresentations in public company filings with the SEC.
Institutional insider trading schemes, tipping networks, and trading on material non-public information by corporate executives, board members, or investment professionals.
Coordinated schemes to artificially inflate or deflate securities prices, wash trading, spoofing, and organized pump-and-dump operations affecting public markets.
Advisers misappropriating client funds, undisclosed conflicts of interest, false performance reporting, and breach of fiduciary duty to investment clients.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations — bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business — by U.S. public companies or their foreign subsidiaries.
Materially false or misleading statements in securities offerings, unregistered offerings, and Ponzi schemes targeting institutional or retail investors.
Since 2012, the SEC has awarded over $1.9 billion to whistleblowers. The largest single award exceeded $279 million. Original insider information drives the program.
For securities violations with estimated sanctions exceeding $1M