SHAREHOLDER EMAIL DISPATCHED BY COMPANY

This is for the benefit of Shareholders that may not have their email address recorded with the Company.

FBR just sent out a fairly explosive shareholder email.

A number of us have now received the company’s direct communication pointing to their published warning about an unsolicited Gmail account purporting to be a “retail shareholder group.”

Given this came directly from FBR to shareholders, it’s worth laying out exactly what the company has said — because the clarity is brutal.

According to FBR’s notice (linked in their email):

• the Gmail address is not affiliated with FBR in any way

• the email uses a fake logo

• the sender is attempting to circumvent the legal process for obtaining shareholder data

• the sender requested HIN/SRN information from FBR in October and was refused

• the sender is fully aware of the confidentiality of HIN/SRN numbers

• FBR is now investigating legal options and will provide the emails to authorities

All of this is straight from the company’s own communication — no interpretation needed.

For anyone new:
~ a HIN/SRN is effectively your portfolio key — it links to every shareholding you own, not just your FBR shares.

Which is precisely why companies (including FBR) cannot access or disclose it.

So if a random Gmail address with a bootleg “shareholder group” logo starts asking for it… that’s not “activism,” that’s a massive red flag.

Let’s also clear something up while we’re here:

A legitimate 249D or 249F does NOT require collecting people’s HINs or SRNs.
There is a proper legal mechanism for that — the same mechanism FBR explicitly says the sender already knows about and has used before.

So shareholders are left with a pretty simple question:

• Why would someone need information they know they can’t legally obtain — and which has nothing to do with any genuine shareholder resolution process

If you have already responded to the email by sharing your confidential data with the sender, please contact me on investor@fbr,com,au and I will assist you with next steps. Please contact me via email rather than by phone as I am often unable to answer phone calls due to availability but I will respond to emails as quickly as I can for those affected by this issue.

Protect your data, folks.
FBR’s email makes it very clear why.