The Belgium Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) issued a public warning about “recovery room fraud”, in which scammers target victims of investment fraud by offering to recover losses or obtain compensation and then extract additional payments or access to accounts. The FSMA warned that the suspected unlawful operators include Cyber Justice (justice-cyberguard.com), GL Markets (glmarkets.io) and Money Recovery (moneyrecovery.me and moneyrecovery.uk). Typical tactics include demanding upfront “administrative”, “legal” or “tax” fees, offering supposedly free help in exchange for remote desktop access (for example via Anydesk) to install spyware or reach online banking, and instructing victims to create and activate a wallet on a crypto platform. The FSMA also reported an increase in identity theft in recent months, with fraudsters impersonating well-known entities including Bybit, the European Blockchain Association (via blockchain-eba.org, blockchain-wtc.com and blockchaineba.org), Ombudsman Financial Services (via ombudsman-fs.co) and Sentinel (via sentinel-fe.com), as well as public authorities. The FSMA advised victims to file a complaint with local police and to treat unsolicited recovery offers, social media advertisements and requests for upfront fees, computer access or crypto wallet activation as red flags, noting that financial supervisors are not authorised to recover lost money and would not initiate contact with victims.

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