Erscheinung:07.08.2025 | Topic Unauthorised business, Consumer protection Iron Bulls: BaFin warns consumers about the website iron-bulls.pro
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about the company Iron Bulls and the services it is offering. BaFin suspects the unknown operators of the website iron-bulls.pro of offering consumers banking business and financial, investment and cryptoasset services without the required authorisation. The operators claim to be supervised by the “European Financial Supervisory Authority”. There is no such authority; BaFin has already issued a warning to this effect.
Anyone conducting banking business or providing financial, investment or cryptoasset services in Germany may do so only with authorisation from BaFin. 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.
BaFin is issuing this warning on the basis of section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG) and section 10 (7) of the German Cryptomarkets Supervision Act (Kryptomärkteaufsichtsgesetz – 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.
