Erscheinung:03.02.2025 | Topic Unauthorised business, Consumer protection progcm.io: BaFin warns against website
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns against the website progcm.io. According to its findings, financial and investment services as well as crypto-security services are offered there without authorisation.
The website operator claims to be based in London, United Kingdom, and only goes by the name GCMpro. According to BaFin's findings, the operator was also responsible in the past for the now inactive website progcm.com.
BaFin issued a warning about the completely identical website gcmpro.org as early as 12 November 2020. In addition, BaFin has recently become aware of other websites with almost identical content, which it has also issued warnings about. In all cases, the presentation on the websites begins with the following sentence: ‘Step Up Your Trading with [name of operator]’.
Anyone offering financial or investment services or crypto-asset services in Germany requires a licence from BaFin. However, some companies offer such services without the required licence. You can find information on whether a particular company is authorised by BaFin in the company database.
The information provided by BaFin is based on Section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (KWG) and Section 10 (7) of the German Crypto Markets Supervision Act (KMAG).
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.
