PRESS RELEASE

As part of its efforts to combat financial fraud, Consob has ordered the blocking of a total of 10 websites.

Specifically, seven websites offering unauthorised investment services and activities on financial instruments and two websites advertising unauthorised trading platforms have been blocked.

Below is a list of these sites:

- 'Keyline FX' (website https://keylinefx.com and related page https://client.keylinefx.com);

- 'Auralyex' - 'Prisma-luxerise.com' (website www.auralyex.com and related page https://webtrader.sprawlyx-manilas.com as well as linked advertising website https://prisma-luxerise.com);

- "Po Trade Ltd" - "Prismaluxerise.it" (website https://p.finance and related pages https://v1.lands-po.com, https://m.p.finance as well as the linked advertising website https://prismaluxerise.it);

- "Campo Borsante" (websites www.campo-borsante.com, www.campo-borsante.org www.campoborsante.com, www.campo-borsante.net and related pages https://client.7cmanagement.cm and https://live.bitfoxytrade.com).

As part of the crackdown on illegal activities, the offering of crypto-assets by Solaxy Tech Ltd, carried out through the website https://solaxy.io, has also been blocked. The offering is not authorised as the information document (white paper) required by EU Regulation 2023/1114 on crypto (Micar) has not been notified to Consob.

The websites blocked this week bring the number of similar interventions since July 2019 to 1,585, i.e. since the Authority was granted the power to order the blocking of websites of illegal financial intermediaries by the 'Growth Decree'. Of these, 136 relate to phenomena linked to crypto-assets.

Consob has also asked Google to remove the mobile application 'Pocket Option' (for Android operating systems), linked to 'Po Trade Ltd', from its distribution platform in the Italian market, through which financial services are offered illegally.

The measures adopted by Consob are available on the website http://www.consob.it. Internet connectivity providers operating in Italy are currently working to block access to the websites. For technical reasons, it may take a few days for the blocking to take effect.

It is important that savers exercise the utmost diligence in making fully informed investment choices, adopting common sense behaviours that are essential for safeguarding their savings: these include checking in advance, for websites offering financial services and crypto-assets, that the operator through which you are investing is authorised and, for financial and crypto-asset product offerings, that the prospectus or white paper has been published.

Consob draws attention to the evolution of deceptive practices that exploit the internet to steal users' money and personal data: there has been an increase in the use of new tools, such as e-mail messages and 'cloned' websites, fake profiles of politicians and celebrities, and content generated using artificial intelligence systems - such as images, voices or videos - with the aim of inducing savers to make harmful investment choices.

To this end, Consob invites savers to read the information sheet containing advice on how to protect themselves from financial fraud in the age of artificial intelligence and reminds them that its website has a section entitled 'Watch for scams!', which provides useful information to warn investors.

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