Italy’s Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) has ordered the blocking of access to four unauthorized crypto websites.

The websites targeted by the latest Consob orders are:

• https://hct685.it;
• https://sdh878.it;
• https://skillnexp.top;
• https://ymg686.it.

The number of websites blacked out since July 2019, when Consob got the power to order that the websites of fraudulent financial intermediaries be blocked, has thus risen to 1353.

The black-out of these websites by Internet service providers operating in Italy is ongoing. For technical reasons, it can take several days for the blocking to be implemented.

Consob has also issued a Warning to savers about the growing spread of the phenomenon of fake online job offers by which the performance of generic activities (such as, for example, clicking links, subscribing to websites, putting likes on commercial products/services, writing reviews and the like), linked to the performance of transactions on crypto currencies from which an additional opportunity to earn money would arise (the so-called task scam).

These proposals, conveyed mainly through social networks, induce users to operate through websites that can be traced back to abusive service providers on crypto currencies and take the form of deceptive initiatives aimed at acquiring the users’ own money and personal data.