Tag: ProfitsTrade

The Public Prosecution Office in Bavaria, Germany, brought charges against the operators of fraudulent binary options platforms, including GetFinancial. Israeli nationals aged 34, 34, and 62 must answer in proceedings, the prosecutors informed. The GetFinancial scheme was launched in 2015 with a boiler room in Israel. Additional boiler rooms have been set up in Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia in subsequent years. Tens of thousands of victims in Germany and many more in other jurisdictions lost their money.

Earlier this year, German prosecutors filed charges against Israeli scammers in the so-called GetFinancial Case. In June 2022, an Israeli court approved the extradition of four suspects Nimrod Blechman (33), Chen Malka (31), Pavel Kotler (47), and Yuri Dashevsky (33). Now it became known that the prosecutors in Liechtenstein are investigating Nadav Gover and others for money laundering in the GetFinancial case. Evidently, they used bank accounts in Liechtenstein to launder the stolen money.

Israeli news platforms reported today that the appropriate Israeli court approved the extradition of four more arrested suspects in...

Israelis media reports confirm FinTelegrams reports regarding the German request regarding the Israeli lawyer David Bar-El. According to Posta, the International Department of the State Attorney's Office confirmed that David Bar-El, 37, a citizen of Israel and Georgia, is in the process of being deported to Germany for prosecution in the GetFinancial Case. The German prosecutor Mamkus Karmann leads the case. David Bar-El is the brother-in-law of cybercrime mastermind Gery Shalon.

Simona Weinglass provided an update on the GetFinancial Case and the respective law enforcement actions in Israel, which have been initiated by German prosecutors. Allegedly, 15 people have been questioned by the police, four are said to be extradited to Germany. Court documents show that the cybercrime organization ran the scams GetFinancial, IntegraOption, SolidCFD, TradeSolid, BitCapitalMarkets, MyCoinbanking, Procapitalmarkets, Profitstrade, FXPace, Acceptrade, and Gainfintech using the platforms SpotOption and Tradologic.

Today we found a new, at least for us, fraudulent marketing campaign in which Elon Musk promotes crypto for getting rich quickly. The "BitcoinX - The Elon Musk Effect" presented in a fake Wall Street Journal campaign on the ElectLinks site (https://electlinks.biz/em-effect), which is run by Post Affiliate Pro (www.postaffiliate.pro) by Quality Unit s.r.o. in Bratislava. Today, the campaign promotes the ProfitsTrade scam.

Busy Friday! Today, the scam scene in Cyprus seems to be very active in the cyberfinance space. Emails are arriving almost by the minute, promising quick money and wealth. Those who click on the links are led to scam campaigns like CryptoEngine or Bitcoin Profit. The latter currently facilitated the broker scam ProfitsTrade (www.profitstrade.com), supposedly operated by ProfitsTrade Ltd in the Commonwealth of Dominica. We have discovered RocketBit for crypto payments as payment processors.

The crypto hype is getting stronger every day. Almost every day, we read headlines about new crypto events. PayPal reports records since they accept cryptocurrencies. Elon Musk and his Tesla are buying $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoins, and most recently, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z announced the creation of a Bitcoin trust. Meanwhile, the big media houses like CNN, BBC, or the Financial Times entertain with ever new exciting crypto stories. Scammers use this hype to rip off greedy and/or naive consumers with scams like Bitcoin Formula and ProfitsTrade.