A victim has provided documents to FinTelegram that are included in the criminal files surrounding the Broker scams GetFinancial, o4trade, Fivecircles, and others. Authorities have traced the money from victims to ultimate recipients over and have also discovered the facilitating payment processors. Besides the notorious illegal German payment processors like SecurePort GmbH, they also found advCash, MoneyNetInt, DIXIPAY, and the regulated Cypriot e-Money Institute SEPAGA E.M.I. Limited.
The public prosecutor's office in Cologne has filed charges against the responsible operators of the illegal payment processor P2P GmbH ("P2P"), which acted as a scam-facilitating payment processor for numerous major binary options and broker scams. Gal Barak's E&G Bulgaria criminal files show that P2P processes millions of victims of their various scams. With the P2P indictment, the Cologne prosecutor's office has charged the second illegal payment processor following a criminal complaint of EFRI. We reported about the B2G indictment recently.
Germany is something of a strategic base for international cybercrime and money laundering. It has been known not only since the collapse of the former FinTech star Wirecard that Germany makes considerable contributions to the prosperity of the international cybercrime and scammer scene. Dozens of illegal German payment processors like B2G, TrustSecure, or StronIT are facilitating scams in plain sight of law enforcement. The German software company AnyDesk Software GmbH provides a highly efficient remote access software to empower fraudulent boiler room agents.
Germany is something of a strategic base for international cybercrime and money laundering. It has been known not only since the collapse of the former FinTech star Wirecard that Germany makes considerable contributions to the prosperity of the international cybercrime and scammer scene. Dozens of illegal German payment processors like B2G, TrustSecure, or StronIT are facilitating scams in plain sight of law enforcement. The German software company AnyDesk Software GmbH provides a highly efficient remote access software to empower fraudulent boiler room agents.
The unauthorized and thus illegally operating German payment processor TrustSecure GmbH has been operating since 2017. Initially, the company was founded at the end of 2017 as SCRI-Alpha 961 GmbH as an asset management company. Already in January 2018, the company was renamed to Trustsecure GmbH and Serghei Grodetchi with official residence in Düsseldorf was appointed as managing director. The BaFin issued another cease-and-desist order to TrustSecure in the context of the broker scams FDM Trade Online and TradesPrime.
The unauthorized and thus illegally operating German payment processor TrustSecure GmbH has been operating since 2017. Initially, the company was founded at the end of 2017 as SCRI-Alpha 961 GmbH as an asset management company. Already in January 2018, the company was renamed to Trustsecure GmbH and Serghei Grodetchi with official residence in Düsseldorf was appointed as managing director. The BaFin issued another cease-and-desist order to TrustSecure in the context of the broker scams FDM Trade Online and TradesPrime.
Illegal broker schemes would not have been conceivable without willingly participating payment services providers (PSP). FinTelegram already pointed out...