The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a renewed warning against Pay Back, a/k/a Money Back fund recovery scheme. This scheme, which operates out of Israel, has been blacklisted by FinTelegram due to its deceptive practices. Despite posing as a legitimate recovery service, Pay Back has been exploiting scam victims by promising to recover their lost funds for an upfront fee.
As a concerned entity dedicated to the fight against financial fraud, we at FinTelegram commend your recent efforts in seizing one of the websites associated with the notorious Israeli money collection scheme, PayBack, also known as MoneyBack. This operation, led by Israelis Amir Geva and Daniel Poleb, has been masquerading as a legitimate fund recovery service while allegedly defrauding countless victims. However, this recent seizure is just one step in dismantling an extensive and multifaceted fraudulent network.
The Israeli fund recovery scheme, Pay Back, a/k/a Money Back, has been black-listed by FinTelegram following detailed investigations. Operating for years under various brands, domains, and websites, this scheme has been exploiting the vulnerabilities of scam victims under the guise of offering them a chance to recover their lost funds. The UK FCA issued an updated warning against the scheme, which acts as a clone of an FCA-regulated entity.
It must be clearly stated that fund recovery with scammers is not successful in 99% of cases. Likewise, 99% of fund recovery schemes are also scams. These are facts. It has come to our attention through various victim reports that certain so-called "fund recovery" companies, including those such as Pay Back Ltd, may be engaging in dubious practices that could further endanger your financial security and personal privacy.
Israeli fintech pundits also invented binary options industry. Big players like SpotOption, PandaTS, or Tradologic had thousands of binary options schemes running on their platforms as white-label clients. Binary options turned out to be ultimately a gigantic fraud industry. Conveniently, fund recovery companies have also emerged in Israel, often run by former scammers. Schemes like Europe Refund or MyQuickRefund run massive Google Ad campaigns to acquire scam victims and sell their expensive services.
We have already published a review about the Israeli fund recovery service Pay Back a/k/a PayBack a/k/a Money Back owned by Amir Geva and Daniel Poleb. It is no secret that we are very skeptical when fund recovery services ask victims for several thousand euros or dollars down payment and, in addition, profit sharing. In many cases, it would be easier for victims to go directly to the relevant financial ombudsman and reclaim the money from the facilitating bank. This is also confirmed by the following report from a Financial Ombudsman.
The FCA has this week issued a warning against the fund recovery scam Binary Forex Recovery (www.binaryforexrecovery.com). On the website, we have not found any information about legal entities or persons running the scam. Addresses in the United Kingdom and the United States are given. Interestingly, the website presents articles about the fraudulent activities of other fund recovery scams such as Wealth Recovery International (WRI) and Austin Smith. The fact is that 9 out of 10 fund recovery offers are unfortunately scams or operated by scammers.
Israeli scammers have expanded their business model globally between 2010 and 2018, spreading their boiler rooms geographically. They defrauded hundreds of thousands of retail investors out of billions of dollars. Now, the center of the global fund recovery business is in Tel Aviv. Like Wealth Recovery International (WRI) of Austin Smith, some of them have turned out to be scams or fraudsters. Others like Action Refund, Money Back, or Pay Back are being under our investigation. Stay alerted and super-cautious. We'll keep you updated!