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July 16, 2021

And again! BridgerPay facilitates illegally operating broker NATA Trading

We actually strive almost 24/7 to capture the incoming scam messages in our database, analyze them and make the cross-connections. It is almost a Sisyphean task. The number of reported scams that come in every day we can carefully record in our database, but we can't report on every single scam. Today we receive a report from a victim of the illegally operating NATA Trade broker. Allegedly, the broker is operated by NATA Trade Limited. What is certain is that the payment facilitator is once again Ran Cohen's Israeli-Cypriot BridgerPay.

July 9, 2021

BitcoinX fraud campaign chases victims for ProfitsTrade facilitated by Praxis Cashier

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 facilitated by Praxis Cashier.

July 7, 2021

Investor Warning – Cryptrader broker scam facilitated by PayWize

Limassol is firmly in the hands of Israeli FinTech entrepreneurs. Without them, CySEC would probably be bankrupt tomorrow, and Cyprus would lose its main source of revenue. This includes the official fees that CIFs have to pay and the penalties that these CIFs have to pay frequently. They flow into the state budget. However, there is fierce competition within the Israeli FinTech community, such as between Ran Cohen and his BridgerPay and Amit Klatchko and his Praxis Cashier. We discovered both along with PayWize as payment facilitators in the Cryptrader scam.

July 2, 2021

ActivTradee scam facilitated by CryptoEngine fraud campaign and BridgerPay

We once again received an email via Google Slides this morning that leads us to the CryptoEngine scam campaign (https://en.cryptoengine.we-trck.com). Anyone who registers there today..

June 11, 2021

Investor warning against Triton Markets facilitated by Praxis Cashier

Like on any other day, today, we have received more than a dozen emails from fraudulent marketing campaigns that are on the catch for victims of various scams. One email leads us (once again) to the already known scam campaigns Bitcoin Prime and Bitcoin Champion. From there, we are directed to the still active broker scam Triton Markets (www.tritonmarkets.com) a/k/a Triton Capital Markets. Surprise, Praxis Cashier is still active as a payment processor, although there have been warnings against this scam for months.

June 6, 2021

Investor warning against TradeLax broker scam facilitated by BridgerPay

The U.K. FCA issued an investor warning against the broker scam TradeLax (www.tradelax.com). The scam is allegedly operated by TradeLax Ltd, registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On TrustPilot, Tradelax has been labeled as a scam for quite some time and has a 2-star rating with a "poor" trust level. As a payment processor have once again discovered the Cypriot-Israeli BridgerPay by Ran Cohen. Scam warnings against its merchants have never bothered BridgerPay.

May 14, 2021

FCA warns against RazerMarkets scam facilitated by PandaTS and BridgerPay

The UK FCA issued an investor warning against the RazerMarkets broker scam. The scam is allegedly operated by RazerMarkets Ltd, registered in the Marshall Islands. It is a PandaTS white-label scam. As a payment processor have once again discovered BridgerPay. Behind BridgerPay Cashier, we have also discovered Estonian crypto payment processor CryptoPayIn, operated by Navasu OÜ. Until recently, Plus Exchange was also integrated as a cryptoprocessor.

April 19, 2021

Investor Warning – KadoCapital broker scam facilitated by Praxis Cashier

The KadoCapital scam attacks consumers in German and English with the Japanese approach with the slogan "The Art of Finance." The scam is actually a poorly done white label mutation. The UK FCA issued an investor warning against KadoCapital a few days ago. We have once again discovered Praxis Cashier by Amit Klatchko as a payment processor for credit and debit cards in our review. Allegedly, the scam is operated in the Commonwealth of Dominica.

March 19, 2021

Investor Warning – Illegal broker CoinsTrades facilitated by BridgerPay

CoinsTrades (www.coinstrades.com) is an unregulated CFD broker that operates outside the regulatory framework and offers different account types with leverage levels prohibited in the EEA. In the Pro Account, a 1:400 leverage is offered at one million investment. On the website, one searches in vain for the legal entity behind CoinsTrades. Only the address Strawinskylaan 1, 1077 XW Amsterdam, Netherlands, is given. While we found no legal information, we found BridgerPay as the payment processor for the illegal broker.

March 15, 2021

Update BridgerPay – VISA ISO with Amir Turgeman

A few months ago, we talked to Ran Cohen about the scams in which his BridgerPay was found to be a facilitator. At the time, he argued that his BridgerPay merely provides the gateway to route transactions and is not directly involved with the merchants or the credit card networks. In fact, the Visa Service Directory shows that Bridger AI Limited operates as an ISO for high-risk merchants. This apparently appealed to Amir Turgeman, an Israeli investor living in Cyprus, who acquired a 20% stake in Bridger AI Limited.

March 12, 2021

BridgerPay allegedly about to receive fresh money from Southern Israel Bridge Fund

Interesting rumors! Israeli forex expert Ran Cohen established his Bridger AI Limited in Cyprus in Feb 2019 to operate the BridgerPay payment processor. In November 2020, BridgerPay announced that it had hired Nati Harpaz, the former CEO of Australian e-commerce group Catch.com as Executive Director. Harpaz is said to play a significant role at BridgerPay and allegedly organized the financing round with the Israeli South Israel Bridge Fund (SIBF), co-founded and presided by the former Mossad boss Tamir Prado.

March 6, 2021

Italien Consob ordered black-out of FX24 facilitated by BridgerPay

This week the Italian Consob ordered the black-out of the FX24 broker scam website operated by Swiss Management Corporation Ltd. The scam also operates with the domain www.fx24.live, which is not mentioned in the Consob order. The scam operator Swiss Management Corporation is registered with the private forex "regulator" IFMRC. A fake regulator for a fake company We have once again identified the unregulated Cyrpus-based BridgerPay as the payment gateway for credit and debit card deposits.