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December 29, 2022

High-Risk Payment Processor Payeer, Its Russian Clients, And An Excellent Trust Level!

We have been following the activities of the high-risk payment processor Payeer for several years now. Payeer is operated through Payeer OÜ, which holds an Estonian crypto license, and Paycorp Limited, registered in Vanuatu by the VFSC. Most recently, we discovered Payeer as a payment processor at many Russian high-risk merchants such as Express Wallet or Taxi Money. In recent months, an average of 25% of website visitors came from Russia.

October 7, 2022

The EU Crypto Ban On Russians And Some Of The Top Crypto Payment Processors Affected!

The EU has announced an adaptation of the existing sanctions package against Russia. Among other things, this provides for a complete ban on crypto services for Russian companies, citizens, or residents. This ban will probably be critical for licensed or unlicensed Estonian crypto payment processors. We have repeatedly pointed out that FIU-licensed Estonian and some Lithuanian crypto platforms apparently do a significant part of their business with Russian merchants and consumers.

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August 30, 2022

Russian-Controlled Estonian Payment Processer Payeer Changed Ownership And Directors!

Payment processor Payeer, which operates with an Estonian crypto license, has been on our radar since 2021, having been a facilitator in various broker scams. Until June 2022, Russian Liubov Svezhentseva was officially registered as the beneficial owner and director. After our last report, new Estonian individuals were again registered as beneficial owners and directors. We may justifiably conclude that they are acting as nominees for the real owners. Here is the update.

March 14, 2022

Attention! Russian crypto payment processor Payeer with Estonian license!

The FCA recently made clear that regulators worldwide are taking concerted action against crypto companies that violate Western Alliance sanctions against Russia. Cryptoasset firms must take steps to ensure their compliance with the sanctions. The Estonian FIU recently made sure that Russian-controlled Garantex Europe OÜ had its crypto license surrendered. However, there are plenty of other FIU-licensed crypto payment processors controlled by Russians that engage in illegal activities. One of them is Payeer OÜ, for example. Here is an update.

March 9, 2022

Western sanctions against Russia don’t bother their high-risk payment segment!

As is well known, the Western Allies have largely excluded Russia from SWIFT. In addition, Visa and MasterCard have also blocked services for Russian companies. Theoretically, the numerous Russian payment processors in the high-risk and cybercrime segment should no longer work. Many Russian payment processors operate via licensed Estonian crypto payment processors such as Volrix OÜ d/b/a SafeCurrency or Fincana OÜ d/b/a Payeer.

March 10, 2021

Estonian scam facilitator Payeer and its Russian owner

Fincana OÜ, a crypto payment processor, licensed in Estonia by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as the competent regulator, operates the payment processor Payeer (www.payeer.com) together with Paycorp Limited, which is registered in Vanuatu and licensed by the VFSC. This payment processor has increasingly appeared as a scam facilitator over the last couple of months. For example, in the scams of the Capital Letter group against which regulators issued numerous warnings. The beneficial owner of Payeer is the Russian Liubov Svezhentseva.

February 23, 2021

Spanish Watchdog CNMV warns against Russian crypto scam Deal Trade

The crypto hype is the new playground for scammers. This week, the Spanish regulator CNMV issued an investor warning against the Deal Trade scam (www.dealtrade.io) operated by the UK-registered Deal Trade Inc Ltd. As payment processors, we have identified Perfect Money and Payeer. However, the scam merchant is currently disabled on the latter. Investors should not get too greedy and lose their common sense.

February 17, 2021

Investor Warning – Dragon Capital with Optimus Markets and Spintop Capital

UK FCA issued an investor warning against the scam broker Optimus Markets (www.optimusmarkets.com), allegedly operated by Hungarian Dragon Capital KFT (a/k/a Dragon Capital Limited). This entity also operates the Spintop Capital scam. Both scams target victims in Europe and Russia. Several Russian payment processors are integrated, and the sites are available in Russian. The main currency used when selecting the payment option is the Russian ruble. QIWI, Itez, Payeer, Alikassa, BetaTransfer, Paythrone, and Pay Op are integrated as payment processors.

February 15, 2021

German-Ukrainian Capital Letter Scam Group and its payment facilitators

Against the German Capital Letter GmbH and its network of offshore entities and scams such as BrightFinance, SolidInvest, GFXRoyal, STSRoyal, STSCrypto, or GFXFinance, various European regulators such as the UK FCA (here), BaFin (here), or the FMA (here) have already warned and issued Cease and Desist Orders over the last months. The Italian Consob has ordered a blackout of the sites (here). However, the scammers are unimpressed. Some scams are still active. Now the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a new warning.