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The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) is currently investigating the unknown operator of the website heptagoninvestments.net. The operator uses this website to offer financial and investment services without the required authorisation. The website is not operated by the British company Heptagon Capital LLP. This is a case of identity theft targeting the aforementioned company, which is registered with the British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). BaFin already issued a warning about the identical website heptagoninvesmtents.com on 19 January 2024.
Financial services may only be offered in Germany if the company providing these services has the necessary authorisation from BaFin to do this. However, some companies offer these services without the necessary 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.
