· Updated · approx. 6 min read
Investment fraud: reclaiming your money — the detailed guide
Guide after investment fraud: stopping payments, securing evidence, criminal complaint, file access and civil claims — explained plainly.
News · Current assessments
News: warnings and decisions
Here we put into context what matters to people affected by investment, crypto and broker fraud: BaFin warnings, decisions with practical relevance and recurring fraud patterns — factual and without breaking-news noise.
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General information · Not legal advice for your individual case
Overview
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This is where assessments of BaFin warnings and of decisions relevant to people affected by financial fraud will appear. Current warnings from the financial supervisory authority are available today directly on the consumer pages of BaFin; the essentials on fraud patterns and first steps are in our guides.
In the meantime: current guides
· approx. 4 min read
Criminal complaint after investment fraud: process and limits
Filing a criminal complaint after investment fraud in Germany: where to file, what to include, what happens next — and what it cannot achieve.
· approx. 3 min read
Pig butchering: the scam behind the long build-up of trust
How pig butchering works: weeks of trust-building, then supposed crypto investments, displayed profits and a blocked payout. What victims can do.
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What appears in this section?
BaFin warnings — put in context
The financial supervisory authority regularly warns about unauthorised offers. We explain what such a warning means legally — and which steps investors who have already paid in may want to consider.
Decisions with practical relevance
Court decisions appear here only when they actually matter for the enforcement of claims by affected people — explained plainly, with a reference to the primary source.
Recurring fraud patterns
When a scheme visibly repeats — from fake trading platforms to dubious recovery offers — we describe the pattern and its typical warning signs.
How to recognise dubious recovery offers today is set out in our recovery scam warning.
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