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The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about Metamask EU . BaFin has information that the company is providing financial and investment services on the websites metamaskprox.com, coinsmetamask.com, meta-maskupx.com and ex-metamask.cc without the required authorisation. It should be noted that no connection exists between these websites and the website metamask.io that is operated by ConsensSys Software Inc. Aforesaid company, which is domiciled in New York, United States of America, is a target of identity fraud.
The four largely identical websites do not provide any information on the company’s registered office and do not contain a legal notice. Other websites operated by Metamask EU in the past are metamaskeux.com, libredating.com and metamaskeu.com.
Anyone conducting banking business or providing financial or investment services in Germany may do so only with authorisation from BaFin. However, some companies offer these services without the required authorisation. Information on whether a particular company has been granted authorisation by BaFin can be found in BaFin’s database of companies.
The information provided by BaFin is based on section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG).
Please be aware
BaFin, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt – BKA) and the German state criminal police offices (Landeskriminalämter) recommend that consumers seeking to invest money online should exercise the utmost caution and do the necessary research beforehand in order to identify fraud attempts at an early stage.
