Tag: BitcoinUp

The Italian financial watchdog Consob has ordered the blackout of seven illegal financial websites. These are all illegally operating broker scams. The new order brings the total number of websites blacked out since Consob’s authorization came into effect to 977. Unfortunately, other regulators in the EU do not currently have the authority to have websites blacked out. However, this would definitely be worth considering.

We receive several dozen spam emails promising us money, wealth, and success on an average day. At the same time, scammers and their facilitators attack in different countries and language areas with different campaigns and domains. For example, in the UK today, BitcoinUp has been promoting the broker scam Avachoice (www.avachoice.com) through UflySmart. As scam-facilitating payment processors, we discovered Estonian KeyPay Global OÜ d/b/a WE4BTC as well as Viva Wallet with German Primic GmbH.

In our market monitoring activities, we have noticed that a new scam is active again with 24/7 Trading Academy, which is an introducing broker chasing new victims for broker scams and illegal offers of regulated CySEC brokers. The 24/7 Trading Academy scam itself is promoted by the fraudulent marketing campaign BitcoinUp, which we have already added to our blacklist. The BitcoinUp campaign is currently running on the UflySmart referral hub. Stay far away from 24/7 Trading Academy.