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September 16, 2021

Gery Shalon – The Plea Deal and the forfeited fortune of a cybercrime mastermind

In 2015, U.S. prosecutors charged the Georgia-born Israeli citizen Gery "Gabi" Shalon in a twenty-three count Superseding Indictment. He was charged with computer hacking, securities fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal online gambling, illegal money transmitting business, and money laundering. Most of the files are still unsealed. What is known now is that in April 2017, Shalon has pled guilty to all 23 counts and made a plea deal with prosecutors that included transferring all seized funds and assets to the United States. We are talking about a real big fortune. We are talking about a real big fortune including a $74.7M bank account.

September 15, 2021

Alert! Wellington Holdings scam facilitated by SysPay, Coinicash, and AdvCash

The Swiss regulator FINMA has recently issued an investor warning against the Wellington Holdings scam (www.wellingtonholdings.com). The scam operators do not disclose any information about the legal entity or persons but give Bleicherweg 10 in 8002 Zurich, Switzerland, as the address. This is bullshit, says FINMA. As a payment processor, we once again found SysPay, regulated by the Maltese regulator MFSA, in criminal collusion with Coinicash and AdvCash. We also noticed this combination most recently in the Cento GX scam.

September 14, 2021

FMA follows Fintelegram and issues warning against WinbitX

FinTelegram issued a warning against WinbitX on 11 June 2021, which was promoted by the fraudulent Bitcoin Profit campaign at the time. On September 14, 2021, the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) issued an investor warning against the scam. In our initial review, we exposed PayNetEasy and Pay Credits as the scam-facilitating payment processors. In today's review, the cashier was operated through a new domain. This is the only change from what we can see. WinbitX is still attacking consumers!

September 13, 2021

Investor warning – FinoMarkets facilitated by Coinicash, AdvCash, and Texcent

Spanish financial markets authority CNMV issued a warning against FinoMarkets on September 13, 2021. The scam's website does not specify an operator or a competent jurisdiction. However, we have again Coinicash acting as a payment processor for credit and debit card payments. Coinicash is again facilitating in its capacity as a registered merchant with Texcent and AdvCash, who actually process the payments. Victims' deposits are apparently represented and miscoded as purchases of cryptocurrencies on the Coinicash exchange.

September 12, 2021

Investor warning against Swiss Capital Bank facilitated by Jubiter

Over the last few weeks, we have increasingly discovered and reported Jubiter as a scam-facilitating payment processor. A victim of Swiss Capital Bank (www.swisscbank.com) has reported that she also made deposits via Jubiter operated by the licensed Slovakian Global DLT Exchange; lost her money. In addition to Jubiter, victims can also make bank deposits to the Dutch Select Enterprises B.V., which has its respective bank account with the regulated Lithuanian e-money institution Trustcom Financial UAB.

September 9, 2021

Attention! The ProfitMarket broker scam facilitated by Jubiter et al

A incoming email refers to the already well-known fake article in The Financial Magazine about a student who became a millionaire. With his system, anyone could earn more than €10,000 within 21 days. The link in the article leads to the notorious Bitcoin System fraud campaign on Safe Offers. There are we promised $13,000 earnings within 24 hours. After registering, we land on the payment page of the broker scam ProfitMarket (www.profitmarket.net) and find there on the facilitating crypto payment processor Jubiter and other acquaintances.

September 8, 2021

A bit late! German BaFin investigates BrokerXP scam

The German financial market regulator BaFin announced on Sept. 7, 2021, that it is investigating the illegally operating broker BrokerXP (www.brokerxp.com). The Edinburgh-based and now dissolved M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Consultancy LP is alleged to have been the operator. The General Partners of this Scottish entity were Aviant Marketing Limited in the Marshall Islands and Maytech Innovations Limited. We discovered Praxis Cashier as the payment processor. BrokerXP does not seem to work anymore and is about to close down.

September 8, 2021

Investor attention! Don’t fall for the CoinsBanking scam facilitated by Praxis Cashier

The fraudulent Profit Maximizer (https://the-profitmaximizer.com) campaign today promotes the CoinsBanking broker scam (www.coinsbanking.com). Anyone registering with the campaign is automatically registered as a future victim at CoinsBanking and redirected to the scam's payment page. There we meet Praxis Cashier to lose our money via credit and debit card payments. Coinswitch Ltd, registered in the Commonwealth of Dominica, is stated as the operator of the scam. The scam attacks in English, German, and Arabic.

September 7, 2021

Spanish CNMV warns against BridgerPay client ProAktivMarket

CNMV has issued a warning against ProAktivMarket. An entity in St. Vincent and the Grenadines allegedly operates the scam. A specific legal entity is not named on the website of the scam, which attacks consumers and naive retail in German and English. German-speaking consumers seem to be the primary target. As a payment processor for credit and debit cards, we have once again discovered BridgerPay and Neobanq. Perfect Money and the Estonian crypto payment processor Quamtor are integrated into the facilitating BridgerPay cashier.

September 7, 2021

Attention! GoldBachInvest broker scam facilitated by BridgerPay and Coindeck

CNMV has issued an investor warning against GoldBachInvest (www.goldbachinvest.com). The operator of the scam is allegedly Gold Bach Invest Limited, registered in the Marshall Islands. Our educated guess would be that the same scammers and boiler rooms operate GoldBachInvest as the GS4Trade scam (report here). Both operate on Leverate's SIRIX platform. As a supporting payment processor, we again found Israeli-Cypriot VISA network partner BridgerPay; and Slovakian crypto payment processor Coindeck.

September 6, 2021

Alert! Fraud campaigns CFDSociety, AI Stock Profits, and Forex Maverick chase victims

This morning we find an email from [email protected] that leads us to the websites CFDSociety (https://thecfdsociety.com), AI Stock Profits (https://aistockprofit.com/) and Forex Maverick (https://forexmavericks.com). There run fraudulent marketing campaigns that promise quick wealth or high income. AI Stock Profits promises $2,500 per week and Forex Maverick $5,000 income per day. All campaigns today promote Cento GX broker facilitated by Coinicash, AdvCash, and SysPay.

September 5, 2021

Maltese SysPay, Coinicash, and AdvCash facilitate the Gento GX scam and others

It is no secret that we consider scam-facilitating payment processors to be much more dangerous than the scams themselves. These payment processors make the scammer scene possible; they are the facilitators of the fraud attacks on consumers and retail investors. Many crypto payment processors have been established in recent years, giving the high-risk and scam-facilitating scene another boost. In many cases, crypto payment processors hold bank accounts with regulated institutions to facilitate scams like Coinicash, AdvCash, and PaySys in the Cento GX scam.