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RocketGate is a high-risk payment processor and merchant service provider operated through Rocketgate PR LLC, a legal entity in Puerto Rico. We have discovered Rocketgate as a payment processor on the sex live cam sites xHamsterLive and StripChat, operated by the Cyprus-registered Technius Ltd. This company also operates the Paymentico payment gateway through which porn tokens can be purchased. Paymentico is a RocketGate client.

In the last few weeks, as part of our Wirecard Legacy series, we have started research on high-risk processors for the porn sector. Wirecard was one of the payment processors for the porn empire of the MindGeek group, which operates the porn sites YouPorn and PornHub, among others. In addition, xHamsterLive and StripChat are also large porn sites operated by Technius Ltd, which is registered in Cyprus. Epoch is involved as a payment processor, among others. We would like to know more.

Recently, the online financial magazine FinanceFWD brought a report about the porn customers of the collapsed German high-risk payment processor Wirecard. For years, Wirecard happily processed payments for the porn empire around MindGeek, for example, for their websites PornHub or YouPorn. Today, the former Wirecard top executives Dietmar Knoechelmann and Ruediger Trautmann and their German-Cyprus Payabl Group are among the leading porn payment processors, Similarweb data suggest.