The General Inspector of Financial Information warns about possible attempts of fraud and contacts – allegedly on his behalf – with an offer to support in withdrawing “frozen cryptocurrencies” accumulated on exchanges or a request to transfer funds to a “technical account,” which is likely to be an account controlled by criminals. The General Inspector of Financial Information neither performs “verification of financial instruments” via cryptocurrency exchange offices nor issues “licenses for trusted individuals to trade cryptocurrencies”.

Please be cautious, as the activities described above may be attempts to fraudulently obtain personal data or funds.

The General Inspector of Financial Information, in accordance with the Act of March 1, 2018 on counteracting money laundering and financing of terrorism (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 1124, as amended), hereinafter referred to as the Act, is the government administration authority responsible for matters related to counteracting money laundering and financing of terrorism (Article 10, paragraph 1, point 2 of the Act), and his tasks are specified in Article 12 thereof.

The General Inspector of Financial Information operates based on the aforementioned Act, and not “Article 15, paragraph 2 of the Act of May 10, 2018, amending the Act on Payment and Transaction Services, and Article 106a of the Banking Law of August 29, 1997 of certain domestic transaction institutions operating on the territory of the Republic of Poland”.

The tasks of the General Inspector of Financial Information do not include providing support for cryptocurrency withdrawals from any platforms. The General Inspector of Financial Information also does not ask bank customers to transfer money to other bank accounts.

Additionally, we inform that the General Inspector of Financial Information does not conduct such activities, neither personally nor through other entities.

In the case of an attempted fraud, we encourage you to use the CERT platform available at: https://incydent.cert.pl/#!/lang=pl, which is used for reporting any incidents related to cybersecurity.