Overview

• The seized sites were redirected to an LKA-hosted seizure notice that has logged roughly 866,000 visits since October 3.
• Karlsruhe prosecutors, the LKA Baden-Württemberg and BaFin led the action with support from Europol and Bulgarian law-enforcement.
• The fraud targeted German investors through professional-looking trading portals and calls from overseas brokers who pushed repeated payments.
• Authorities say the operators lacked BaFin authorization and that victims’ funds were not placed into genuine investments.
• Perpetrators remain unidentified and are described as an international Crime-as-a-Service network, with a June takedown of about 800 domains and millions of subsequent access attempts underscoring the scale.