Tag: P2P

FinTelegram has reported several times between 2018 and 2019 about illegally operating German payment processors that supported binary options and broker scams. Among these illegal German payment processors were P2P GmbH and B2G GmbH. EFRI filed money laundering charges against the two companies; German prosecutors subsequently filed charges and seized €2.5 million of P2P bank accounts in 2019 but, to date, failed to make restitution payments to victims. On the contrary, the millions will remain with the German state for a long time: a scandal but this time on the side of the German prosecutors and courts.

Illegal payment processors are an essential element for cybercrime activities such as scams. Over the last few years, Germany has built a dark reputation in this regard. Numerous illegal payment processors such as B2G, TrustSecure, or P2P have laundered funds for dozens of scams. BaFin has now announced investigations against the illegally operating payment processor A-B Group a/k/a A-B Group Online. The company acquires home office workers with the purpose of opening bank accounts under their ID.

The public prosecutor's office in Cologne has filed charges against the responsible operators of the illegal payment processor P2P GmbH ("P2P"), which acted as a scam-facilitating payment processor for numerous major binary options and broker scams. Gal Barak's E&G Bulgaria criminal files show that P2P processes millions of victims of their various scams. With the P2P indictment, the Cologne prosecutor's office has charged the second illegal payment processor following a criminal complaint of EFRI. We reported about the B2G indictment recently.

The HybridReserve broker scam vanished sometime in 2020. It has defrauded thousands of victims during its active period between 2018 and 2020. Several financial market regulators in Australia and Europe have issued warnings against the scam. The vanished website was owned and operated by the offshore entity SingleBell LTD, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, and the unlicensed Estonian SingleBell OÜ, One of the facilitating payment processors has been the German P2P GmbH, which is investigated by German law enforcement agencies.

FinTelegram was asked by an EU law enforcement agency to ask for information about the broker scam HybridReserve. The authorities have received several fraud complaints from retail investors. Already in February 2019 the Belgian regulator Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) and other regulators issued an investor warning against HybridReserve, which is operated by Singlebell Ltd in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Singlebell OÜ from Estonia.

The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI), co-founded by FinTelegram, is specialized in the recovery of funds of investors who have been defrauded by investment scams. Furthermore, EFRI sees itself as an advocate for investors and investor protection. Currently, EFRI has been granted a Power of Attorney by more than 800 victims which have been defrauded of more than EUR 34 million. The approach applied by EFRI differs in several aspects from the activities of lawyers and other organizations in the recovery business. Also because EFRI is organized as an initiative and association of victims.

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous...

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Since our request for information in connection with Blue Trading and Onyx Capital, more than 150 affected parties have...