THELOGICALINDIAN - Belgiums Financial Services and Markets Authority FSMA has appear a account of cryptocurrency platforms assuming signs of artifice The account currently contains 78 crypto platforms including 28 platforms added on Tuesday Despite warnings the FSMA continues to accept complaints from consumers about these cryptofirms
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FSMA’s New Warning
Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) appear Tuesday, September 4, that it has “updated its account of cryptocurrency trading platforms apropos which it has accustomed questions/complaints from consumers and vis-à-vis which it has articular signs of fraud.”
The bureau wrote:
The bureau started keeping a account of crypto trading platforms assuming signs of artifice in February. Currently, there are 78 platforms on the list, including the latest 28 which the bureau added on Tuesday.
Fraudsters “try to allure barter online through affected cryptocurrencies and huge profits,” the bureau noted, emphasizing that “the alone affair they absolutely do, however, is booty the customers’ money and disappear. It is as simple as that.”
28 New Crypto Platforms Showing Fraudulent Signs
The 28 new platforms the ESMA warned about are 1st-cryptobank.com, bitc-international.com, boursebitcoin.com, ccg-investment.com, crownmanagers.com, crypto.bnd-group.com, crypto-access.com, cryptofrancecapital.com, cryptorama-bank.com, cryptos-marketplace.com, cryptowallet24.com, e-cryptoney.com, ecrypto-international.com, emarketstrade.com, executivecrypto.com, fair-oakscrypto.com, fast-coin.eu, globalmarkets-group.com, ldc-crypto-com, lgsinvestpartners.com, london-exchange.com, minedecrypto.com, mondial-investissement.com, placementcrypto.com, primecryptobank.com, truetrade-capital.com, vechain-wallet.com, and wallet-coins.com.
The banking babysitter emphasized:
Many counterfeit platforms “claim to be alive in the cryptocurrency trade,” the bureau noted. However, afterwards advance in cryptocurrencies through these platforms, consumers either “never balance the funds invested,” or “they artlessly accept heard annihilation added from the aggregation afterwards advance their money.”
Furthermore, the FSMA added that “some of these platforms additionally action added banking articles with cryptocurrencies as basal asset,” such as “savings accounts with allegedly affirmed returns, application rights or acquired articles such as CFDs.”
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