FinTelegram has reported several times on the collapse of the notorious British-Indian high-risk payment processor iPayTotal. In Oct 2020, a UK court ordered the insolvency and liquidation of iPayTotal Ltd. In Oct 2021, the successor company iPaySolutions Ltd also filed for liquidation. Since then, iPayTotal has been relabeled into a FinTech software company operated by IPT Solutions PT, Portugal, which also runs the crypto payment platform CryptoMatix with iPayTotal co-founder Ruchi Rathor. Here is the update!
In March 2021, we reported the disappearance of the high-risk processor OctaPay, which was allegedly the successor to the infamous collapsed iPayTotal. Both reportedly each disappeared with their merchants' money. In Feb 2021, Octapay Limited applied for a voluntary strike-off, suspended by Companies House. There is another version of OctaPay with a different domain and logo still active as a high-risk payment processor in Brazil. If and how these OctaPay ventures are related, we do not yet know.
isappeared a few months ago. FinTelegram reported! According to our information, they had brutally ripped off a lot of their merchants. Among these merchants were also many operators of scams and cybercrime ventures that had stolen the money anyway. Paypound, a successor to iPayTotal and OctaPay, a whistleblower claims, has emerged and offers its payment services to the high-risk segment. Or so it says.
iPayTotal, perhaps the most notorious high-risk payment processor, is apparently closing down for good. This can be read on the website www.ipaytotal.com of the British-Indian company. This does not really come as a surprise. In November 2020, the UK High Court of Justice ordered the dissolution of the company. The company's business was transferred to iPaySolutions Ltd. Sen Kugan was appointed as director and registered as the beneficial owner. Now it appears that it is finally over.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Christian van Biezen lives and works in Limassol, Cyprus, one of the European powerhouses of Forex brokers, which are part of a high-risk industry, whether regulated or unregulated. Consequently, a highly active high-risk payment processor scene has developed around these Cypriot forex brokers. OctaPay was one of them, and Christian van Biezen was its director until he realized it was defrauding its merchants. So he left in December 2020, exposing the crime. As a result, OctaPay and its people vanished with most of its customer funds.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a public investor warning against the broker Scam RoyalGTX. This Broker Scam has indeed interesting connections to Estonian payment processors and is to be positioned via Juno Group Ltd in the environment of the Scam Broker Network of PumaTS. The RoyalGTX scam is facilitated by the payment processors iPayTotal and NeoBanQ. And there are other interesting connections.