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January 17, 2021

Payvision and Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Let’s scam the scammers and the EFRI Campaign

Oh yes, the alleged German cybercrime mastermind Uwe Lenhoff was a very good acquaintance of Payvision founder and CEO Rudolf Booker. They spent skiing vacations together in Austria and communicated a lot. Thanks to the frequent and very open communication between Lenhoff and Booker, their business details can be found in the criminal files. They show how high-risk payment processors work.

January 17, 2021

High-Risk Payment Processors Series and the dark side of finance

Undoubtedly, high-risk payment processors (#HRPP) are at the very center of cybercrime and scams. Very often, they facilitate consumer fraud and related money laundering. In early September 2020, Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials (#VCT) for operating a global scam broker network. A breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime. the forensic analysis of banking and financial data by law enforcement, the trial findings, and the court's reasoning in the verdict also allow investigating the anatomy of high-risk payment processors.

January 15, 2021

Illegal Payment Processors FermenTec Trade and Wascom Group exposed

Scams would not even be possible without the intentional or grossly negligent involvement of payment processors. In this respect, the prosecution and detection of crime-facilitating payment processors is a key focus in the fight against scams. Thanks to the cooperation of scam victims and whistleblowers, we have already been able to uncover numerous licensed and unlicensed payment processors. With the Serbian FermenTec Trade DOO and the Hungarian Wascom Group KFT, we have again caught two illegal payment processors.

January 12, 2021

Scam-facilitating Maltese payment processor PayTah refused to recognize its legal responsibility

Recently, we reported that the high-risk payment processor Phoenix Payments Ltd d/b/a Paytah (www.paytah.com), like Maxigrid in Cyprus, has been helping large broker scams like RoyalsFX, LincolnFX, or CodeFX to defraud consumers and retail investors with their payment services. Paytah is to be held liable for this but has so far refused to accept its responsibility for intentionally or grossly negligently supporting the scams and refuses to provide any assistance to the victims.

January 6, 2021

Investor Alert – Broker scam NAB Consulting with PaynetEasy

Every single day we receive reports about new scams from whistleblowers and victims. Much appreciated it is! For us, this is an indication that investors are becoming more alert. That's excellent news. However, regulators and law enforcement are taking longer to do so. But that's exactly why FinTelegram exists. An insider informed us that there is a new broker scam active with NAB Consulting. We took a look at the scam and found Israeli-Russian PaynetEasy as the facilitating payment processor.

January 4, 2021

Investor Alert: Estonian Broker Scam MDX500 and XChangePro

MDX500 (www.mdx500.com) was just down for a while and displayed error message 522. It will not be a surprise if the scam goes offline. They all do after a few months. However, the boiler rooms and payment processors behind the scams are here to stay. In the case of MDX500, these are the boiler rooms that also run Blackstone500, for example. The Estonian BlueData OÜ operated the scam. Client-victims informed us that withdrawals and tradings had been stopped. Goodbye, money then! Another Estonian scam ripped off investors with Estonian regulators and law enforcement doing nothing.

December 15, 2020

UK Watchdog issues warning against Ukraine Broker Scam WFT Group with iPayTotal and BridgerPay

FCA has issued an investor warning against the Forex broker scam WFT Group a/k/a WFT World operating under the domains www.wft.world and www.wft.group. As the operator and illegal payment processor, we found IT Consult Pro Ltd operating through an account at TransferWise Europe with IBAN LT633270001000069681. On the website, Invest Group LLC in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is given as the operator.

November 29, 2020

Urgent Warning against scam-facilitating Lithuanian payment processors

In the last few weeks, we have noticed an increasing number of Lithuanian companies acting as illegal payment processors for scams and handling bank payments for their client-victims. The payments are made on the basis of fake invoices for alleged consulting services issued by these illegal payment processors. Recently we have uncovered Skylas UAB, Fuselma UAB, or Merelita UAB as such scam facilitators and money launderers. We urgently ask investors to be super-cautious before paying an unrelated Lithuanian company for fake services.

November 26, 2020

CySEC confirms crypto regulation – What it means for Maxigrid and BitandBuy!

Maxigrid Ltd is a regulated Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) and has made its crypto platform - as well as its bank accounts with GlobalNetint - available to scammers and acted as a payment processor for them. The Financial Ombudsman Service of the Republic of Cyprus purported that the CySEC would not regulate crypto assets. Apparently, it does. The CySEC has issued a guideline on how CIFs should deal with crypto.

November 6, 2020

Law and Tax Enforcement Actions – Start with Payment Processors to chase cybercriminals

FinTelegram is frequently contacted by law enforcement agencies in various jurisdictions with requests for information. It has become known in the international law enforcement scene that FinTelegram has indeed valuable information and contacts. In our respective discussions, we recommend starting enforcement actions against facilitating payment processors. They are the backbone and payment data hubs of the ever-expanding cybercrime universe and its scams.

November 4, 2020

Maxigrid Case – GlobalNetint allegedly terminated bank accounts

Maxigrid Ltd of the Israeli FinTech entrepreneur Roy Almagor is a CySEC-regulated investment firm. Despite the regulation, Maxigrid has supported scams like RoyalsFX or LincolnFX as a payment processor according to the information available to us. Payments from client-victims of the scams were made via the Lithuanian GlobalNetint (GNI), among others. Allegedy, GNI terminated the bank accounts of Maxigrid, Roy Almagor, and related entities.

November 3, 2020

Update on the Crypto Capital Corp Shadow Banker Case

The superseded indictment against U.S. citizen Reginald Fowler and his Israeli partner Ravid Yosef was unsealed in early 2019. They are charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, bank fraud, and wire fraud. All this is said to have been done on the basis of cryptocurrencies and hundreds of millions of dollars are said to have been moved around the globe. This case is closely connected to the Bitfinex Case around a lawsuit.