Erscheinung:21.08.2024 | Topic Unauthorised business, Consumer protection Emails from info@backofficeweltsparen.de: Raisin GmbH target of identity theft
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about the services offered in emails sent from the address info@backofficeweltsparen.de. According to information available to BaFin, financial and investment services as well as banking business are being offered in these emails without the required authorisation.
Unknown perpetrators are using the e-mail address info@backofficeweltsparen.de to send consumers offers that are supposedly from WeltSparen. WeltSparen is a brand that belongs to Raisin GmbH. The perpetrators use documents in which they make explicit reference to WeltSparen, to the Berlin-based company Raisin GmbH and to the partner company Raisin Bank AG, which has its registered office in Frankfurt am Main. These documents also refer to the email address info@backofficeweltsparen. These offers do not actually originate from WeltSparen, Raisin GmbH or Raisin Bank AG. This is a case of identity theft.
Anyone providing financial or investment services in Germany may do so only with authorisation from BaFin. However, some companies offer these services without the necessary authorisation. Information on whether particular companies have been authorised by BaFin can be found in BaFin’s database of companies.
Theinformation 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.
