Scam victims started to bring legal claims against ING subsidiary Payvision before the courts. Instead of dealing professionally with these claims, Payvision and its founder and former CEO Rudolf Booker started a tsunami of legal intimidation and defamatory campaigns to silence EFRI. A new climax was reached when Booker learned that Sixt was a speaker at the upcoming Financial Economic Crime event in Brussels. He retained a Belgian lawyer to send intimidating and defamatory threats to the event organizer and other event speakers to prevent Sixt from speaking.