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The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received reports of scammers gaining control of Instagram accounts. Suspects blackmail victims to record themselves promoting fake cryptocurrency platforms in order to regain access to their account. Scammers are sending phishing emails with fraudulent links for fake Instagram login pages; this allows scammers to steal account credentials. Once an account […]
More than 420 New Brunswickers reported losing a total of $4.2 million to fraud and scams in 2021, a $2.6 million increase over the year before. The figures come from the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC), which ranked investment scams as the top category of fraud by dollar loss in New Brunswick. Thirty-one New Brunswickers reported […]
Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered consent orders on March 1 for permanent injunction, monetary sanctions, and equitable relief against Marvin W. Courson III (Courson) and Christopher A. Kertatos (Kertatos). Both Courson and Kertatos reside in Florida. Previously, the U.S. […]
On 7 February 2022, BaFin imposed administrative fines totaling 56,600 euros on Smart Krypto Invest GmbH. The sanction related to breaches of Article 19(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). The company Smart Krypto Invest GmbH that is closely associated to a person discharging managerial responsibilities at an issuer had failed to make notifications within […]
ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of RealDolmen, ISIN BE0003899193, on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 23/02/2018 at 10:30 CET. Source: FSMA
ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of RealDolmen, ISIN BE0003899193, on Euronext Brussels is suspended on the request of the company from 23/02/2018 at 09:00 CET until the publication of a press release. Source: FSMA
In recent weeks, a large number of new platforms offering all and sundry the chance to invest in cryptocurrencies have appeared on the internet. The FSMA warns the public about these new platforms, since often there are fraudsters behind them who are now using cryptocurrencies to swindle consumers. In recent weeks, many platforms have appeared […]
In June 2017, the existing online application for for credit providers and credit intermediaries was extended to individual (re)insurance intermediaries and intermediaries in banking and investment services. Since that time, all new individual requests for registration by intermediaries are submitted via this online application. The registration dossiers are also managed online by the intermediaries themselves. […]
As indicated in its warning of 22 February 2018, the FSMA receives increasing numbers of complaints about trading platforms that claim to be active in the cryptocurrency sector. By way of illustration, we are providing this testimony of a consumer who invested on one of these platforms. ‘Following a request for information sent by email […]