Tag: Tradixa

We warned again about the vanished GS4Trade broker scam several times. The website has since disappeared with the money of numerous victims. In principle but the boiler rooms are still active. The GS4Trade scam has left a wide trail of blood in Europe. Authorities are searching for those behind it. A boiler room agent with the stage name Robin Leo Nicholas is still contacting victims asking them for money for the next scam. Please do not fall for these boiler room perpetrators.

In July 2021, the German BaFin had warned against GS4Trade (www.gs-4trade.com) and announced the launch of an investigation. In September 2021, the UK FCA issued another investor warning against the broker scam running as a white-label mutation on the SIRIX platform of Israeli Leverate. GS4trade Invest Limited, registered in the Marshall Islands, allegedly operates the broker, attacking consumers in English and German. As facilitating payment processors, we again found BridgerPay, Jubiter, and CoinDeck.

A few weeks ago, we warned against the broker scam Tradixa, operating with different domains. Currently, www.tradixa.net is the active domain of the scam allegedly operated by Tradixa Ltd, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and All Media EOOD, Bulgaria. The facilitating payment processors back then have been Praxis Cashier and ePay. While Praxis Cashier evidently terminated Tradixa, we have been able to establish that Estonian-Slovakian Jubiter and Spanish Paysend also facilitated the broker scam.

Israeli Gal Barak was sentenced in September 2020 to four years in prison and millions in restitution payments for investment fraud and money laundering in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials. Barak also faces charges in Germany. He was the head of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria, which operated broker scams such as XtraderFX, SafeMarkets, Golden Markets, or OptionStarsGlobal. Payvision was its main payment facilitator, and PandaTS, the white label provider, which Barak charges with similar arguments as the U.S. SEC does in its SpotOption fraud complaint.

The TradesRun broker has been operated under several domains by several offshore entities such as Evergo Ltd, Marshall Islands. So were 24tradex and BGold Capital scams. However, these offshore companies are always fake. The truth is, that these scams are operated by the Albanian boiler room of 3 FID Tech (a/k/a 3fidtech), owned by the Albanian Brisilda Duraku, who is also the (former?) beneficial owner of Global-Tech DOO in Belgrade. This boiler room company is the criminal entity behind many scams such as Brokerz, Tradixa a/k/a Tradi-Xa, Globalixx, Golden-CFD, and many more.

The broker scam Tradixa currently operates with the domain www.tradixa.net. The legal entitiwa behind the scam allegedly used to be Tradixa Ltd, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and All Media EOOD, Bulgaria. In December 2020, the Italian Consob ordered the scam's website's blackout; several other European regulators have issued investor warnings. The scam is still active and facilitated by Epay as its payment processor.

FinTelegram recently brought an update on Leverate Financial Services Ltd ("Leverate"), which CySEC regulates with license number 160/11 (see the report here). At this point, we apparently did not have some information, as a whistleblower kindly pointed out. For example, the beneficial owners behind Leverate are also said to be associated with the FXVC (www.fxvc.eu) brand of Finteractive Ltd, another CySEC-regulated CIF with the license number 238/14. Likewise, we were not aware of other unregulated brands as well as boiler rooms in Belgrade. Here the update.

The Austrian Financial Market Authority FMA has recently issued several investor warnings. Specifically, the FMA warns against the broker scams Tradixa, GFXRoyal (GFX Finance), HBC Market (HBC Markets), and BSB Global. The FinTelegram Research Team has looked at the special features of these scams. And this is what we found: