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September 19, 2022

Spanish Financial Watchdog Warns Against Ten Illegal Websites!

Spanish financial services watchdog CNMV issued warnings against ten illegal financial websites on September 19, 2022. Among them are some we already know and warned against like Investirex, Prime Invest, or MetaversesWorld. One, DGXLTD already vanished with its website. Besides, the CNMV has also warned against a fake news site that hunts naive victims for brokerage and investment scams with false news. Below is the list of new CNMV warnings.

August 19, 2022

Fake News And Disinformation – Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Was Not Arrested!

On Twitter, Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao a/k/a CZ, informed that the major Chines news outlet 163 ran a story saying that he was arrested in his mansion during an FBI raid, and a room of BNB and BUSD was found in the basement of the mansion. The news was picked up by many other Chinese news sites and quickly spread in many social media groups. While the original article is removed. Many copies of it are still available on other sites. The truth, however, is that this was fake news, and CZ has not been arrested.

August 19, 2022

Urgent Attention: Fake BaFin Emails Promise Fund Recovery From Crypto Exchange Binance

Currently, German consumers are receiving fake emails from the German regulator BaFin in which unknown persons offer their help to get back frozen funds. Specifically, these scammers claim to want to help consumers verify their allegedly frozen accounts on the unlicensed online trading platform Binance. Of course, however, the potential victims must first make an initial payment. To contact them, they use the email address [email protected] Stay far, far away!

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July 20, 2022

Fake Reviews: Amazon Filed Lawsuit Against Facebook Group Administrators!

Fake reviews are a huge issue. Bad actors use them to mislead consumers. Amazon filed a lawsuit against Facebook group administrators that orchestrated fake reviews on Amazon in exchange for money or free products. It sued over 10,000 Facebook groups, including one called Amazon Product Review, with more than 43,000 members. The groups recruit people worldwide to write false reviews in return for money or free products, Amazon said in a news release. The “incentivized and misleading” fake reviews target Amazon clients.

June 17, 2022

Fighting Social Media Fraud! Facebook And Twitter Agree To New EU Rules!

Social media are powerful tools for scammers to chase victims. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms have agreed to abide by tougher EU standards for policing online postings, WSJ reports. Big tech companies will also face tougher rules under the coming US digital-content law. Under the new EU code of practice, social media platforms will be expected to take steps to prevent advertising intentionally false or misleading information. Platforms will also be expected to provide users with more tools for identifying such content online.

June 6, 2022

Interesting! Australian Court Orders Google To Pay $515,000 For Defamation!

The online search monopolist Google earns a lot of money with illegal content. FinTelegram readers know that. A court in Australia has now convicted Google of defamation and ordered it to pay the former politician John Barilaro $515,000 over two defamatory YouTube videos. Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found Barilaro had been the “subject of a relentless, racist, abusive and defamatory campaign conducted on YouTube.”

February 6, 2022

Wanted for court service – Mark Tepterev and his Russian-Estonian hosting provider SmartApe

Israeli Gal Barak, sentenced in September 2020 to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering, was a ringleader of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. He was released from jail on probation. He currently runs defamatory websites in which he slanders FinTelegram, EFRI, and his former partner. An EU court has ordered the hoster SmartApe to delete the articles, but the court order has not been served yet. We are therefore looking for the whereabouts of its director Mark Tepterev.

January 18, 2022

Urgent warning against crypto fake review sites!

We are currently focusing on scam facilitating marketing activities via Google and social media. Currently, warnings from financial market regulators against illegal crypto platforms are literally exploding. FinTelegram has already outlined many times that fraudulent crypto campaigns like Bitcoin Prime are used to trap victims for broker scams. To this end, fake review sites promote fraudulent crypto trading robots with the best ratings and reviews. Here is a list of fake crypto review sites.

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October 24, 2021

Hop Rocks or how to distribute fake financial news!

Hop Rocks is one of the hundreds of digital marketing agencies facilitating scammers and cybercrime activities. The venture was founded in 2019, has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE, and an office in Sri Lanka. On the website, one looks in vain for the details about legal entities or people behind Hop Rocks. Most recently, fake news website operators have hired the agency to place their amounts on reputable online news sites. One of the agency's clients is Gery Shalon's cybercrime organization.

October 20, 2021

R4I – Have you heard about the WALP Entertainment?

We did not know about WALP Entertainment S.R.L. until recently. The company supposedly is registered in Costa Rica and is massively involved in crypto gambling. This offshore entity also operates the unlicensed crypto gambling site Pasino (www.pasino.com) and the unregulated crypto payment processor FaucetPay (www.faucetpay.io). WALP Entertainment is also the issuer of the Feyorra (www.feyorra.com) crypto token, which is positioned as a payment token for the gambling industry.

October 18, 2021

R4I – SmartApe, the Russian-Israeli hosting company for cybercriminals!

Many evil people hate FinTelegram. For a good reason. These people are cybercrime activists who steal money from consumers through illegal websites and get rich doing it. Many of these bad people are Israelis who use the considerable potential of their highly-gifted FinTech pundits to steal money in the cyberfinance space. FinTelegram writes about these people. We are hated and slandered for this, for example, by people around Gery Shalon, Gal Barak, or Vladislav Smirnov, who run defamatory websites via the hoster SmartApe.

September 11, 2020

Investor Alert – Do not trust TrustPilot Ratings and Reviews #CapitalWay

We have been monitoring the TrustPilot review platform in the context of scams activities. Specifically, we have reported on the case of Capital Way aka Capital Way Group on the basis of a public investor warning issued by the UK regulator FCA. While the UK watchdog warned investors about the scam, the scam on TrustPilot still gets 5-stars reviews. A 1-star rating of FinTelegram referring to the FCA warning has been temporarily put offline by TrustPilot after the Capital Way guys complained about a possible breach of guidelines.