As recently as March 2021, white-label payment gateway provider Akuratoco announced via press release that, in addition to Tranzzo and Connectum, it has also integrated licensed Estonian crypto payment processor Tinkbit OÜ d/b/a Tinkbit (www.tinkbit.com) into its portfolio. Surprisingly, today the website is down and producing the Error 1016 Cloudflare error message. Maybe it's just a short-term problem, maybe not. In recent months, Tinkbit has come to our attention as a scam-facilitating payment processor.
The Italian watchdog Consob is currently the only financial market regulator known to us that has the legal authority to order internet providers to black-out of illegal financial sites. The legal basis for this is the "Growth Decree" law passed in June 2019. So far Consob has already blocked 335 websites for the Italian market. Almost all blocked sites offer illegal broker services.
The Austrian Financial Market Authority FMA has recently issued several investor warnings. Specifically, the FMA warns against the broker scams Tradixa, GFXRoyal (GFX Finance), HBC Market (HBC Markets), and BSB Global. The FinTelegram Research Team has looked at the special features of these scams. And this is what we found: