THELOGICALINDIAN - Belgiums Financial Services and Markets Authority has adapted the account of websites it says are cryptocurrency trading platforms assuming signs of artifice Twentyone websites accept been added to the absolute account bringing the absolute to 99 blacklisted sites
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21 New Suspect Sites
The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) fabricated two crypto-related announcements on Friday. In accession to a new admonishing adjoin cryptocurrency fraud, the regulator revealed:
The bureau abundant that “this account is based alone on observations fabricated by the FSMA on the base of letters accustomed from consumers. It, therefore, does not accommodate all players that may be unlawfully alive in this sector.”
The account of 99 websites includes the 21 anew added sites: afaeu.com, bk-coin.com, capital-traders.com, cryptoallday.com, cryptonetto.com, cryptosafe.tech, dca-finance.com, elos-patrimoine.com, finances-markets.com, iminage.com, investissement-crypto.com, kryptonexlabs.com, kryptowize.com, london-exchange.net, lacentraledescryptomonnaies.com, parel-invest.com, positiva-ad.com, save-coins.com, tradabank.com, trade-my-bitcoin.net, and vip-brokers.com.
The FSMA added emphasized that “there is no accepted administration of online platforms alive in the cryptocurrency sector.”
FSMA’s Latest Warning
In its admonishing adjoin cryptocurrency fraud, the FSMA acclaimed that the anatomy of artifice varies such as involving “[the] acquirement of cryptocurrencies, accumulation accounts based on cryptocurrencies, administration agreements, ICOs, etc,” adding:
The bureau asserted that these counterfeit schemes accomplish agnate promises. They generally absorb “a actual aerial amount of return,” the affluence of abandoning money, and “the funds deposited are affirmed (often at 100%), which agency that alike if the bazaar collapses, you will balance at atomic your antecedent investment, which makes this a actual safe blazon of investment,” the regulator wrote. “All these promises are worthless, however: if an action is fraudulent, the promises that accompany it are appropriately so.”
In March, the Brussels Times reported that Belgian tax authorities had started hunting for cryptocurrency investors. “Anyone apperception on the cryptocurrency bazaar charge pay tax of 33% on assets made, and acknowledge these aural the area ‘miscellaneous income’ on their tax return,” the advertisement detailed. However, the tax authorities are adverse challenges back “the administration of cryptocurrency assets happens through bulletproof adopted trading platforms,” the account aperture conveyed.
Early this month, news.Bitcoin.com reported that the cardinal of crypto ATMs in Belgium is growing.
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