Please note: we are a law firm that deals exclusively with online investment fraud and unauthorised financial activity. This article is based on real case files handled by the firm and is published in anonymised form as regards the victims, in the public interest. The company and personal names reported below are those appearing in the documentation in our possession; each party's position must be verified individually, and anyone with a different account of the facts may contact us. If you recognise your own situation in what follows, you can submit your case using the form at the bottom of this page.
There are two texts. On the sistemascientifico.com website it says that the content has "exclusively educational and informational purposes" and "does not constitute financial advice". In the email that arrives a few hours before the live event it says the method works "with no risk and no experience" and generates "an income of 500 to 2,000 euros a week". sistemascientifico.com is a scam built precisely on that gap: the public page is written to survive scrutiny, while the promise travels elsewhere.
Why sistemascientifico.com is a scam: two texts, two promises
The landing page of sistemascientifico.com, attributed in its footer to Starlight S.r.l.s. and presented under the brand "Profitto Scientifico", is an exercise in editorial caution.
It speaks of "a structured approach to quantitative systems", of "an informational live session dedicated to the structure of the method", of "educational content to better understand the method presented". Nothing is promised. On the contrary, at the foot of the page there is a disclaimer which, taken in isolation, would be unobjectionable: educational purposes, no financial advice, no invitation to trade, every decision carries risk.
On the same sistemascientifico.com page there is even a comparison table between a "quantitative approach" and a "discretionary approach" that deserves careful reading, because it is a small masterpiece of emptiness. Under "resources required" the table answers "depend on the solution" for both columns. Under "skills" it answers "to be developed gradually", again for both. The table has the shape of an analysis and the content of a tautology: it exists to look technical, not to say anything.
Then there is the email. And in the email that accompanies sistemascientifico.com the register changes completely.
What the sistemascientifico.com campaign actually says
The message sent to registrants a few hours before the event — which we have obtained in original form, with complete technical headers — bears no resemblance to the page.
It states that "Ing. Matteo Maldini" will reveal "for the first and only time the quantitative system that is allowing more than 800 ordinary people to have a second weekly passive income, with no risk and no experience". That during the broadcast "dozens of community members" will be called in to describe "how they created an income of 500 to 2,000 euros a week". That "50 free licences of the algorithm" will be assigned — "only 50". That "it does not matter if you only have a few thousand euros set aside". And that "there will be no repeats, no recordings, no other dates".
Three elements of this message carry independent criminal relevance, and all three concern what sistemascientifico.com leaves unsaid.
The first is the phrase "with no risk". No financial instrument, algorithmic or discretionary, produces a return without risk. Asserting otherwise is not advertising enthusiasm: it is the representation of a non-existent fact, which is the artifice required by art. 640 of the Italian Criminal Code.
The second is the weekly quantification of the return, 500 to 2,000 euros. A periodic expected figure, combined with the absence of risk, is a promise of result. Whatever label is attached to the page, a party promising a periodic result on capital contributed is not providing training.
The third is artificial scarcity: fifty licences, one evening only, no repeat, no recording, and the warning that anyone who does not join the WhatsApp group will have their attendance "automatically cancelled". The Italian consumer code treats as misleading in all circumstances the practice of falsely stating that a product will be available only for a very limited time in order to obtain an immediate decision, and classes as aggressive those practices which, through undue influence, limit the consumer's freedom of choice. Both provisions apply here on their literal terms.
"You will pay only afterwards, with a small share of your results"
The same email linked to sistemascientifico.com contains the line which, in our view, settles the question of legal classification: "The method is 100% free. You will pay only afterwards, with a small share of your results."
An entity that genuinely provides training, unlike sistemascientifico.com, is paid for the training. It is paid up front, or in instalments, or per lesson: in every case the consideration is tied to the teaching. A party remunerated instead with a share of the client's trading results is not selling a course: it is participating in the outcome of an investment activity carried out on someone else's assets.
That is precisely the economic structure of portfolio management and of investment advice, which art. 1(5) of the Italian Consolidated Law on Finance (TUF) lists among investment services and activities, reserved to authorised entities under art. 18 TUF and protected by criminal law under art. 166 TUF. For crypto-asset services the framework is completed by Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) and, domestically, by legislative decree 129/2024.
The disclaimer on sistemascientifico.com does not affect that classification, for an elementary reason of law: a statutory reservation applies according to the substance of the economic operation, not the name the parties give it. Writing "educational purposes" at the foot of a page does not turn into teaching a relationship in which the client contributes money, a third party operates or causes an algorithm to operate on his account, and that third party is remunerated on the results. Indeed, in any proceedings the disclaimer turns against whoever wrote it: it shows the problem was known and that it was managed with a formula rather than with an authorisation.
The sistemascientifico.com funnel: webinar, WhatsApp group, "selection", licence, transfer
From the documentation in our possession — three separate reports received by the firm between 22 October and 11 November 2026 — the sequence is always the same.
Step one: free registration. You reach the sistemascientifico.com landing page from an advertisement or an email, and leave your contact details to obtain "1 place at the event", out of a declared total of a thousand tickets.
Step two: the compulsory WhatsApp group. The sistemascientifico.com email is explicit: the link to the live session "will be shared exclusively in the WhatsApp group dedicated to the event", and anyone who does not join "will not receive the link". This is not an organisational choice. Moving the event to a closed channel means that nothing said during the broadcast remains on the public web, where it could be indexed, archived or reported. The promise is made where it leaves no accessible trace.
Step three: the "selection". One victim describes attending the webinar, being added to the WhatsApp community and then being "selected by your consultants". Selection is a psychological device: it turns a purchase into recognition of merit and moves the client from the position of someone evaluating an offer to that of someone who has been chosen.
Step four: the licence. After the selection an order appears. In one documented case it is order ORDER992151 of 12 October 2026, for a product described as "Quant Trading", with Digital Engineering S.r.l.s. as seller, against which the victim paid 3,600 euros by bank transfer. The same person states in writing that she never signed any contract activating the licence.
Step five: the transfer to the platform. The sum, according to the report, was said to have been moved to an online platform from which "it is impossible to withdraw the funds".
Where the money collected through sistemascientifico.com ends up
Here the file joins another case we have handled, and the join is the single most significant finding of this analysis.
The platforms identified by sistemascientifico.com victims as the final destination of the payments are more than one. They include fundinves.com (and a variant on a Moroccan domain), tradefunder.org, presented as "Trade Fund", nftcapitals.com, and one called "Now Fund Tech". All present themselves with the same formula in the page title: "DeFi Crypto Trading Platform".
This is not a generic resemblance, and the correspondence runs straight through the sistemascientifico.com funnel. We analysed fundinves.com separately in a dedicated article, documenting that the platform states in its own FAQ that the client's deposit "is never used to execute trades or to invest on the markets" and that it "is not refundable", being an "insurance premium". The same platform declares maximum leverage of five hundred times.
One of the victims of the sistemascientifico.com funnel independently describes, in her own words, a "platform with 500 leverage" on which one operates by entering "a string" into a "calculator" supplied by the organisation. The correspondence between the two documents is complete, and neither author knew the other.
What emerges, upstream and downstream of sistemascientifico.com, is a modular infrastructure: a set of landing pages that collects contacts, a set of companies that invoices the licences, and a set of clone platforms that record the "deposits" and on which withdrawal never completes. When one platform burns out, another is activated from the same template. The victim who refers to "the last payment made on the new platform" is describing exactly that rotation.
The network of domains behind sistemascientifico.com
Registry and DNS checks confirm that sistemascientifico.com is not an isolated site: sistemascientifico.com is a node in a network.
The domain sistemascientifico.com was registered on 11 May 2026, expiring on 11 May 2027: a single year. The record was last changed on 5 October 2026. There is no MX record at all: the domain cannot receive email. It sends, through a third-party email marketing provider, but it does not receive.
Alongside it we find metodoquant.live and metodomat.vip, both registered on 10 September 2026 for a single year, both without MX records, both named by victims as registration points for the same event. The first displays the same page title and the same corporate footer as sistemascientifico.com. We find tradefunder.org, registered on 10 June 2026, again for one year. And we find matteomaldini.com, registered on 10 May 2026 — the day before sistemascientifico.com.
All of these domains share the same authoritative nameservers, belonging to a single DNS operator. One point requires rigour, because technical accuracy is what makes an analysis usable in court: these domains also share the same IP address, but that address belongs to a large US reverse-proxy service and is shared by an enormous number of entirely unrelated sites. The shared IP address, on its own, proves nothing. What constitutes an indicator is the combination of three different elements: the same authoritative nameservers, registrations concentrated between May and September 2026, and a one-year term for each domain.
A domain registered for a single year, like sistemascientifico.com, is a domain not intended to last. It is the economic signature of a campaign, not of a business.
And here lies the simplest contradiction in the whole file. The sistemascientifico.com page states: "SINCE 2018 WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING QUANTITATIVE MODELS AND THEIR OPERATIONAL LOGIC." The domain has existed since 11 May 2026. The personal domain associated with the method's supposed creator has existed since 10 May 2026. Seven years of declared experience; six months of documented existence.
Finally, profittoscientifico.com, which appears to have hosted content under the same brand, no longer resolves and is no longer registered. A domain already burned.
The parties appearing in the documents
Three Italian company names emerge from the documentation gathered on the sistemascientifico.com funnel, and this is what makes this file different — and better — from almost every other we handle.
Starlight S.r.l.s. is the name shown in the footer of sistemascientifico.com and of metodoquant.live, as holder of the site's rights and legal documents.
Digital Engineering S.r.l.s. appears as seller on the purchase order for the "Quant Trading" licence and as holder of an Italian bank account to which at least one documented transfer was made.
ABIBI S.r.l. appears as holder of two separate accounts, one at an Italian institution and one abroad, to which another victim reports making several payments.
We must be clear, because it is only proper: these are the names appearing in the documents we have examined. Each company's position must be established individually, starting with a company-registry search clarifying its existence, corporate purpose, registered office, management body and status. It is not unusual in this sector for a genuine company name to be misused by third parties; the opposite is equally possible.
The practical point remains, and for anyone who has paid money it is decisive: these are not anonymous offshore beneficiaries. They are Italian companies, with a registered office, a legal representative and identifiable bank accounts. It means the banking documentation can be obtained by the judicial authority using ordinary powers — a production order under art. 248(2), acquisition under art. 256, evidentiary seizure under art. 253 of the Code of Criminal Procedure — with no European Investigation Order and no letters rogatory, on a timescale measured in weeks. It means there are assets reachable by preventive seizure under art. 321 with a view to confiscation. And it means there is a party that can also be sued civilly.
It is the most favourable configuration a victim can face. On one condition: that action is taken before the accounts are emptied.
"Ing. Matteo Maldini": a check that takes five minutes
The sistemascientifico.com promotional material presents the method as the creation of "Ing. Matteo Maldini", and a personal domain in that name was registered the day before the landing page.
We have, at present, no basis to state or deny that the person named is enrolled in the professional register of engineers. We note, however, that this is a trivial check, which anyone can run on the national register, and that it carries a precise legal consequence: publicly claiming a professional title one does not hold constitutes usurpation of titles under art. 498 of the Criminal Code, and if the use of the title is accompanied by activity reserved to the profession, art. 348 applies as well.
In files like this one the title must always be checked, for two reasons. The first is that the title is often the only element of technical credibility offered to the client, and its absence would decisively strengthen proof of the artifice. The second is that a genuine title identifies a natural person with a name and a registration: and in an investigation into an otherwise anonymous structure, one identified individual is worth ten domains.
Legal classification
The conduct described constitutes, in our view, fraud against those who came through sistemascientifico.com under art. 640 of the Criminal Code in its contractual form. The artifices are numerous and documentary: the assertion of a return "with no risk", the weekly quantification of an income, an unverifiable number of beneficiaries, a declaration of activity "since 2018" contradicted by the registries, and the staging of artificial scarcity. Inducement into error is proved by the orders and the transfers. Unjust profit and loss are quantified by the payment records.
The aggravating circumstance under art. 640(2)(2-bis) is available, incorporating the impaired-defence circumstance of art. 61 no. 5, structural in any relationship conducted entirely at a distance. So is paragraph 2-ter, introduced by law 90/2024, which aggravates fraud committed remotely through computer or telematic means capable of hindering identification, with two to six years' imprisonment and a fine of EUR 700 to 3,000.
The facts fall between August and October 2026: no issue of non-retroactivity arises. As to the capacity of the means to hinder identification, it is documented by the structure of the campaign itself: one-year domains at a third-party DNS operator, origin shielded behind a reverse proxy, no MX records on any funnel domain, and an event held in a closed WhatsApp group.
The systemic consequence matters. A statutory maximum of six years — an aggravating circumstance with special effect, counted under art. 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure — places the offence above the threshold in art. 266(1)(a), which requires offences punishable by more than five years. On simple fraud, telephone and electronic interceptions are not permitted; on aggravated fraud they are.
Alongside this sits unauthorised financial activity under art. 166 TUF, with the reservation on taking deposits protected by art. 130 TUB. These are offences of danger, complete upon the mere unauthorised exercise of the reserved activity regardless of individual loss, and above all prosecuted ex officio: pleading them gives the prosecutor an independent basis that does not depend on the complaint deadline. We developed this approach in our analysis of unauthorised financial activity and money entrusted to an acquaintance for a foreign broker.
The email campaign is traceable, and it is the fastest route to identification
There is an element of the sistemascientifico.com file worth more than many expert reports, and almost always ignored in complaints.
The campaign emails were not sent from an anonymous server: they were routed through a European email marketing provider, as the technical headers of the acquired messages show and as the structure of the tracking links in the body confirms.
A European provider is a reachable party. It holds the identity of the account holder who uploaded the list and sent the campaign, the associated payment method, the access IP addresses and the sending logs. Those data can be obtained by order of the judicial authority, and against a party established in the Union the instrument is the European Investigation Order under legislative decree 108/2017, not letters rogatory.
In a structure that built everything else to avoid identification — annual domains, no mailbox, reverse proxy, events in closed groups — the email marketing provider is the point at which the organisation necessarily had to leave an identity and a payment method. That is where the request should be directed.
There is a further angle, often useful as a parallel lever: sending commercial communications without validly obtained consent is relevant under data protection law, where the burden of proving consent lies with the controller, not the recipient.
The WhatsApp group is both evidence and a list of victims
The WhatsApp group imposed by sistemascientifico.com as a condition of attending the event is the file's second evidential asset.
Inside it are the statements made during the live session, the messages from the "consultants", the operational instructions, the links to the platforms and, above all, the enthusiastic testimonials of supposed profits. If those testimonials come from accounts attributable to the organisation, a further element of falsity is added; if they come from real participants, those participants are victims or witnesses.
Either way, a full export of the group chat — using the application's native function, preserving the original file and not a printout — must be carried out immediately, because the administrator can delete the group at any moment, and with it all of that material.
Withdrawal, refund and recovery of undue payment
One victim of sistemascientifico.com has already exercised the right of withdrawal and requested a refund, reaching a fifth request without reply. That step is correct, but it must be understood for what it is: an out-of-court request which, if ignored, produces no effect on its own.
Two technical observations. The first concerns consumer withdrawal in distance contracts: the fourteen-day period runs from conclusion of the contract, and the right is not exhausted where the service has not been provided. In this case the victim states she never received either product or service.
The second is stronger. If the contract was never signed, as the victim states in writing, there is no contract to withdraw from: there is a payment made without cause. The route is then recovery of undue payment under art. 2033 of the Civil Code, which does not depend on the criminal findings and rests solely on proof of payment and the absence of a justifying title. We have published a resolved case on recovery of undue payment in online fraud.
Beware of the order of moves, however: pressing refund requests while nothing has been filed gives the organisation time to empty the accounts. The civil claim and the criminal filing must be set up together, not in sequence.
What to secure immediately
The list is operational and, for anyone who went through the sistemascientifico.com funnel, must be carried out before anything else, because the domains are annual and groups get deleted.
Full capture of the sistemascientifico.com pages and of the other registration domains, in particular the disclaimer, the comparison table and the corporate footer, preserving date and time. Saving the campaign emails in original format, with complete technical headers: not a screenshot but the message file, because that is where the routing data lives. Native export of the WhatsApp group and of every individual chat with the "consultants". Any recording or screenshots of the webinar. The purchase order, with number and date. The licence contract, even unsigned, because the absence of a signature is itself a fact to be proved. Records of every transfer, with complete beneficiary details. Screenshots of the destination platforms, with displayed balances and any refused withdrawal attempts. Registry attestations for the domains.
On that basis a complaint is drafted pleading aggravated fraud under art. 640(2)(2-bis) and (2-ter) and unauthorised financial activity under art. 166 TUF, with applications for banking enquiries into the beneficiary companies' accounts, for seizure under arts. 253 and 321, and for acquisition of data from the email marketing provider, together with a request to be notified of any application to shelve the case under art. 408(2).
One final operational warning: do not tell the other side that you have instructed a lawyer. The moment the structure learns it, it closes the channels, deletes the groups and empties the collection accounts.
The complaint deadline for sistemascientifico.com victims is open
The sistemascientifico.com facts fall between August and October 2026, and awareness of the fraud matured, for those who approached the firm, between late October and November 2026. The three-month period under art. 124 of the Criminal Code is fully open. In addition, pleading the aggravating circumstances and unauthorised financial activity makes the matter prosecutable ex officio in any event. Anyone reading this and recognising their own case does not have a limitation problem: they have a speed problem.
Related cases handled by the firm
Besides the analysis of fundinves.com, which joins directly with this file, you may find useful our analyses of HyperCommunity and the daily-return Ponzi scheme, cryptoledgerx.top and the blocked balance and dam.w24platform.com and fake debt recovery.
If you attended the sistemascientifico.com webinar: what to do now
The picture is this. sistemascientifico.com is a scam to the extent that its public page declares purely educational purposes while the campaign leading to it promises a quantified, risk-free weekly return; that remuneration is tied to the client's trading results, placing the activity within the reserved perimeter of art. 18 TUF with no authorisation of any kind; that the site claims activity "since 2018" against a domain registered in May 2026; and that payments flow to platforms from which withdrawal never completes.
If you left your details on sistemascientifico.com, on metodoquant.live or on metodomat.vip, if you joined the event's WhatsApp group, if you bought a "quant" licence or if you were asked for a transfer against a contract you never signed, your position is recoverable and time is the only variable putting it at risk.
Our firm is already handling this case for several victims. You can submit your position for a preliminary assessment: we will tell you which documents are usable, which aggravating circumstances can be pleaded in your case and whether the conditions are met for a seizure application against the beneficiary companies' accounts.
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