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October 9, 2020

Maxigrid Case – Open Letter to CySEC chairwoman and Europol

FinTelegram and EFRI have sent an open letter concerning Maxigrid and the related broker scams like RoyalsFX or LincolnFX (to name only two) to Demetra Kalogerou, chairwoman of CySEC, and Europol. The claim of The Financial Ombudsman Service of the Republic of Cyprus that CySEC would not be responsible for the crypto activities of the investment firms they regulate is wrong in our view. In addition, Maxigrid also handled bank deposits for scams hance was involved in fraudulent FIAT transactions too.

October 8, 2020

Maxigrid Case – Cyprus Financial Ombudsman confirms regulatory violations but doesn’t care!

Cyprus is really dark territory within the regulatory regimes in the EU. In plain sight, CySEC-regulated investment firms operate scams and/or facilitate them with their financial services. As in the case of Roy Almagor's Maxigrid and its meanwhile vanished BitandBuy crypto investment platform. Even the Financial Ombudsman Office has found that Maxigrid has violated regulatory requirements. However, the office does not feel responsible for customer complaints for very strange reasons.

August 31, 2020

Broker scam Trade99, ClearTransfer, and another vanished crypto platform

Since we started our reports about the RoyalsFX Scam and described the background and processes, victims of other scams like LincolnFX or Trade99 have come forward. They have identified similar processes and/or have been involved in several of these scams and have discovered parallels. The involvement of the CySEC-regulated Maxigrid Ltd as a payment processor and its crypto platform BitandBuy was one of these parallels. As is the disappearance of another crypto platform.

August 23, 2020

FCA warns against PumaTS-Leverate scam RoyalStox with Praxis Cashier

The UK regulator FCA has issued an investor warning against the scam broker RoyalStox (www.royalstox.com). This is operated by Marom Partners Limited on St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The scam is part of the Leverate and PumaTS network and connected to their Activ8 trading servers. It’s another full-blown scam from without any special features. The scam works with the payment processors Praxis Chashier and QubePay for crypto payments.

August 19, 2020

Scam broker RoyalsFX, LincolnFX, and CapitalFunds are part of the Joshua Group

In the last weeks, we have invested considerable time and resources in the Scams RoyalsFX and LincolnFX. These scams were customers of the CySEC-regulated Maxigrid Ltd of Roy Almagor and Jekaterina Pedosa and have processed payments of client-victims via crypto and FIAT. Substantial sums of the customer victims were processed via the now-closed crypto platform BitandBuy (www.bitandbuy.com and https://crypto.maxigrid.com). The platform disappeared without further comment during the probe in Maxigrid. These scams and many more are part of the scam network of the Joshua Group.

August 7, 2020

The CySEC Scam Tourism – Launch of Investigative Series

CySEC is the financial supervisory authority of the Republic of Cyprus and a sort of gatekeeper for the EU financial markets. Cyprus has developed into the single most important gateway to EU financial markets for non-EU citizens and organizations. The Israeli financial scene in particular makes intensive use of this gateway. But also Russian individuals and companies enter the EU financial markets via Cyprus. The CySEC is controversial within the EU regulators because of its "relaxed" approach.

August 5, 2020

Broker scams LincolnFX, ZurixCorp, and its payment processors

The UK watchdog FCA and the Spanish regulator CNMV issued investor warnings against the scam broker LincolnFX operated by Lincolnfx.capital Ltd. It's still online on August 5, 2020. The FinTelegram Research team has received documents from some of the scam's victims and thus has taken a closer look. Consequently, facilitating payment processors like Plus Exchange or Titan Payments as well as interesting connections have been identified.

June 3, 2020

Request 4 Information – RoyalsFX, BitandBuy, Maxigrid, and a victims case

We have been in intensive contact with client-victims of the RoyalsFX broker scam in the last weeks. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and the Italian CONSOB have warned against the RoyalsFX scheme which worked with Maxigrid and its crypto payment platform BitandBuy.