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November 8, 2020

Investor Protection – SEC secured $600 million for harmed investors in 2020

In the fiscal year 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dealt with 715 regulatory enforcement actions addressing a broad range of significant issues. Through these actions, the SEC obtained judgments and orders totaling approximately $4.68 billion in disgorgement and penalties and returned more than $600 million to harmed investors. The Commission awarded a record $175 million to 39 whistleblowers, both the highest dollar amount and the highest number of individuals awarded in any previous fiscal year.

November 6, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Indictment against alleged cybercrime CFO Marina Barak effective!

In early September 2020, Gal Barak, the Wolf of Sofia, was sentenced to four years in prison and reparations payments for investment fraud and money laundering. The Israeli principal of the cybercrime organization of E&G Bulgaria is responsible for tens of thousands of scam victims. Now the charges against his partner and wife Marina Barak became legally effective. She is accused of money laundering. The trial will start early next year.

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

Research Update on MoneyNetint and GlobalNetint

Authorized by the UK FCA as an e-Money Institution (EMI), MoneyNetint Ltd is a FinTech veteran and has scaled up in the era of binary options. It is controlled by the four Israelis Raphael Golan, Gil Trif, Nissan Trif, and Yishai Trif. The latter is also the CEO of the company. Since 2017, the Group has been operating GlobalNetInt UAB in Lithuania, authorized by the Bank of Lithuania as EMI, together with local partner Luidvikas Kulikauskas.

November 2, 2020

Another Trustpilot Case – Scam-warning Capital Way review removed

Trustpilot for sure has a serious problem with its business model. The review platform is systematically abused by scammers to fabricate a serious image for potential client-victims via fake reviews. Trustpilot accepts operators of obvious scams like Capital Way as paying customers and removes critical reviews on their request. By doing this, Trustpilot facilitates scams and/or unauthorized businesses and their illicit activities.

November 1, 2020

Payvision and the EFRI fight for victims’ money!

Without the collaboration of payment processors, scam operations and online fraud schemes would be very difficult if not impossible. Currently, EFRI, co-founded by FinTelegram, is fighting with the Dutch FinTech Payvision for restitution payments to the victims of scams of Uwe Lenhoff and Gal Barak who has been found guilty of investment fraud and money-laundering in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials ("#VCT").

October 29, 2020

Trustpilot and WorldMarkets – Finally the scam warning review is back online

It was a fight! Last week, FinTelegram News was contacted Trustpilot which informed us that a review on WorldMarkets had been removed. WaMeng Ltd as the alleged operator of WorldMarkets had complained about alleged defamation by the review. The review had only factually pointed out that regulators warn against the WorldMarkets scheme. After discussions with Trustpilot our review is back online.

October 26, 2020

What happened to AlgoPay, AlgoCharge, and the Seroph Group?

FinTelegram research has been uncovered that the Good Option and Royal Broker binary options scams were operated by the Anguilla-registered G.O. Limited between 2014 and 2015. These and other scams have been facilitated by the Cyprus-based Payment Processor AlgoCharge of the Israeli Sarel Tal who acts as the director of AlgoPay Limited registered in Cyprus. Today all companies and websites have disappeared or are about to.

October 23, 2020

Whistleblower Business – SEC Issues Record $114 Million Whistleblower Award

The fight against scams and cybercrime is unthinkable without the support of whistleblowers. Most regulators and law enforcement agencies have established whistleblower reward programs. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced an award of over $114 million to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement actions.

October 21, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials and the disturbing Balkan Papers

The Israeli scammer and cybercrime principal Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison and restitution payments at the beginning of September 2020 at the start of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials ("#VCT"). Further charges against his co-conspirators will follow in various EU jurisdictions. Barak and his partner Uwe Lenhoff have also operated their illegal boiler rooms and payment processors in the Balkans. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has recently published the Balkan Papers related to the #VCT.

October 19, 2020

EFRI charges Payvision with scam facilitation claiming restitution payments

The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI) has sent a letter of formal notice to the ING subsidiary Payvision and asked for restitution payments for the victims of scams of the German Uwe Lenhoff, who died in prison while waiting for his indictment. Ther German prosecutors charged Lenhoff with operating a cybercrime organization, investment fraud, and money laundering. Lenhoff was a close business partner of Payvision and an acquaintance of its founder and then CEO Rudolf Booker.

October 18, 2020

CySEC confirms receipt of Maxigrid Request 4 Action

Over the last months FinTelegram has received plenty lot of evidence that suggests the involvement of Roy Almagor's CySEC-regulated Maxigrid Ltd in broker scams like RoyalsFX or LincolnFX. These scams have harmed thousands of EU small investors. However, the legal responsibility to investigate the allegations lies with the responsible regulator CySEC and law enforcement. We have therefore sent a Request 4 Action to the CySEC Chairwoman and Europol. The receipt was confirmed by email and the clock is running.