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May 27, 2021

James Scerri Worley, and the withdrawal of license of Money + Card Payment Institution Ltd

James Scerri Worley is a practicing lawyer in Malta. He was an official of Money + Card Payment Institution Ltd d/b/a epayzz which had its license revoked by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). The company did not possess enough funds to cover the minimum required by law and did not meet its governance requirements. James Scerri Worley being an integral part of the company, also faced other decisions by the Authority. MFSA decided that Money + Card Payment Institution Ltd should wind up its business.

April 26, 2021

R4I – Scam-facilitating payment processor MidPay powered by Coriunder

Scam-facilitating payment processors enable cybercrime organizations to conduct their illegal business and launder the money stolen or illegally acquired in the process. The scams run by cybercrime organizations come and go; their offshore entities and websites disappear vanish into thin air. However, payment processors remain and form the financial backbone of the dark side of CyberFinance. MidPay is one of them working with the Israeli Coriunder white-label platform. We'd like to know more about it.

March 15, 2021

Update BridgerPay – VISA ISO with Amir Turgeman

A few months ago, we talked to Ran Cohen about the scams in which his BridgerPay was found to be a facilitator. At the time, he argued that his BridgerPay merely provides the gateway to route transactions and is not directly involved with the merchants or the credit card networks. In fact, the Visa Service Directory shows that Bridger AI Limited operates as an ISO for high-risk merchants. This apparently appealed to Amir Turgeman, an Israeli investor living in Cyprus, who acquired a 20% stake in Bridger AI Limited.

March 12, 2021

BridgerPay allegedly about to receive fresh money from Southern Israel Bridge Fund

Interesting rumors! Israeli forex expert Ran Cohen established his Bridger AI Limited in Cyprus in Feb 2019 to operate the BridgerPay payment processor. In November 2020, BridgerPay announced that it had hired Nati Harpaz, the former CEO of Australian e-commerce group Catch.com as Executive Director. Harpaz is said to play a significant role at BridgerPay and allegedly organized the financing round with the Israeli South Israel Bridge Fund (SIBF), co-founded and presided by the former Mossad boss Tamir Prado.

February 23, 2021

Regulator warns against BridgerPay scam client The Forex Premium

Bridger AI Ltd is an unregulated PayTech and, therefore, apparently moves feels free to accept scam merchants without too much concern. Just recently, Cohen hired Nati Harpaz, a big name, as an additional Executive Director. One would expect legitimacy there. However, BridgerPay has come up more frequently as a payment facilitator of scams regulators warn against. So it facilitates The Forex Premium (www.4xpremium.com) operated by Premium Finance Solutions Ltd.

February 10, 2021

iPayTotal cooperates with FCA-regulated Global Payments to facilitate scams

In our research on the Financial Resident broker scam, we identified iPayTotal as one of the payment facilitators. However, when processing deposits via iPayTotal, visitors are redirected to Global Payments (www.globalpay.com), a payment processor licensed by the UK FCA. iPayTotal is one of the most notorious high-payment processors in the scammer scene. Many scammers complain that they were ripped off by iPayTotal and that funds were not transferred to them anymore. In this respect, the cooperation with a regulated FCA entity is somewhat surprising.

January 25, 2021

TransferWise appoints Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for blockbuster IPO in London

TransferWise prepared for a blockbuster IPO and appointed the two Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as joint coordinators, Sky News reported last week. The surprising thing here is the decision in favor of a listing in London and against New York. This is certainly an important milestone for London to remain Europe's most important financial center after Brexit. The valuation for the IPO is expected to exceed $5 billion. And hey, they are profitable!

December 19, 2020

Praxis Cashier plans to help brokers to raise client-victims deposits up to 20%

An estimated 6-7 out of 10 broker scams use Amit Klatchko's unregulated Praxis Cashier Systems Ltd (d/b/a Praxis Cashier) as a payment processor to process customer deposits. This gives Praxis Cashier the leading market position in the scam segment. With the integration of the broker CurrentDesk, Praxis Cashier aims to be able to increase deposits from "traders" (aka victims) by up to 20% again. This is totally bad news!

December 15, 2020

R4I – High-risk payment processor EU Paymentz and its US operator

The U.S. citizen Chris Ortega from Austin, Texas, registered the domain www.eupaymentz.com back in 2015. According to Ortega's LinkedIn profile, he has been the director and owner of the Delaware company EU Paymentz, LLC since January 2020. However, on the payment processor's website, Sofia, Bulgaria, is presented as the registered office address. There Ortega has also registered Bitronum Ltd. He also owns JC Velecom, LCC, another Delaware company with connections to Serbia and Eastern Europe. We would like to learn more.

December 15, 2020

R4I – High-risk payment processor EU Paymentz and its US operator

December 11, 2020

Problems at OctaPay – European director fired for refusing to accept illegal practices!

Troubles at high-risk payment processor Octapay which is allegedly conntected to iPayTotal through Vishal Coodye and its Rashal International LLC. Yesterdy, Octapay announced that its European CEO Christian V. was fired on accusations of an extensive list of serious malicious activities. We would like to learn more about Octapay and its activities.

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December 8, 2020

R4I – Let us know more about the High-Risk Payment Processor Octapay and iPayTotal

Octapay Limited was founded on 16 September 2020. According to UK Companies House, the sole director and beneficial owner is Madhumita Singh. The company acts as a payment processor for high-risk merchants in gaming, crypto and forex operating the websites www.octapay.fund. And it seems to be related to iPayTotal.