The Italian regulator CONSOB blacklisted a further seven scam brokers on 3 August 2020. This means that the brokers’ websites will soon no longer be accessible for Italian customer victims. At present, the Italian watchdog is the only regulator using this sensible measure. The blocked scam brokers are:
- DirectaFx Limited (website www.directafx.com);
- Gntfin LTD (website www.gnt-fin.com);
- Maxi Services Ltd (website https://maximarkets.org);
- Platiniumfund Ltd (website www.platinium-fund.com);
- Digital Exchange Limited and Securex Plus Solutions EOOD (website www.dgxltd.io);
- “ProConsultingInvest” (website www.proconsultinginvest.co);
- “Tfx25” (website www.tfx25.co.uk).
The number of sites blacked out since July 2019 has thus risen to 268.
We looked at the scam broker DirectaFX. This also uses the recently noticed Polish payment processor Payments Titan (www.paymentstitan.com and www.paymentstitan.pl). Otherwise, it is a typical scam from one of the many cybercrime workshops. We suspect that DirectaFX belongs to the scams around The Change Ltd and ZurixCorp.
The blocked broker scam GNTFIN is facilitated by the crypto payment processor Tinkbit, which is already known for other scams and is operated by the Estonian Tinkbit OÜ.
