Tuesday, November 12, 2024

BaFin follows FinTelegram and investigates vanished RocketChart broker scam

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In April 2021, we issued a warning against the RocketChart broker scam that wanted to catch victims via fraudulent marketing campaigns like BitQT. Also, in German-speaking countries. It took a few months before the German regulator BaFin announced an investigation into the scam, which has since disappeared. The investigation probably won’t yield much insight, but it may be enough to file a report with the relevant law enforcement agency? That would at least be the first step to enable criminal investigations.

The RocketChart scam (www.rocketchart.com) was allegedly operated by Seventh Line Corporation Ltd, registered in the Marshall Islands. The fraud also operates a German site under the domain www.rocketchart.de. As payment options, we uncovered the notorious high-risk payment processor PayTechno (www.paytechno.com) operated by Estonian PayTechno OÜ. The company also operates CryptoPayTech (www.cryptopaytech.com). The collapsed and vanished iPayTotal (www.ipaytotal.solutions) has also been facilitating the scam.