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BaFin Warns of 39 Sites Harvesting Data for Unlicensed Crypto Platforms

  • —BaFin named 39 domains, mostly in bundles of three: .com, .net and .org
  • —The sites collect names, phone numbers and emails, then pass the data to unlicensed platform operators
  • —The pages have no valid imprint and their operators are unidentified
  • —The regulator flagged a possible link to previously warned platform series
Why it matters: The scheme shifts risk to the moment before any transfer: user data becomes a tradable lead, leaving victims with no one to claim against.
Source: CryptoTicker
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