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April 16, 2021

Bet90 Holdings – Surviving its vast cybercrime legacy?

In 2016, Uwe Lenhoff, the alleged German head of a global cybercrime organization, celebrated the IPO of Veltyco Group PLC in London together with his partner, Amsterdam real estate investor Dirk-Jan Bakker. Veltyco was to become the cybercrime organization's white flagship and be used for money laundering. In January 2019, Lenhoff was arrested. In July 2020, he was found dead in his prison cell in Germany. Cause of death unknown. Consequently, Veltyco was renamed Bet90 Holdings and has now repositioned itself.

February 9, 2021

BaFin’s Cease and Desist Order against illegal payment processor Egramming is final

The illegal German payment processors are very popular among the worldwide scammer community. Companies like B2G of Rainer Treuer and his Russian partner Oleg Shvartsman have processed tens of millions of scammers like Gal Barak or Uwe Lenhoff and contributed to the fraud of tens of thousands of small investors. In October 2020, BaFin issued a Cease and Desist Order against the German Egramming, which allegedly facilitated the crypto scam Capital Coin Exchange, among others. The order is final now!

January 21, 2021

The Scammers War in Belgrade amidst Vienna Cybercrime Trials

A shooting attack was carried out this morning on Belgrade lawyer Marko Vujosevic. He apparently survived unharmed but badly shocked. Vujosevic was the founder and administrator of Global Payment Solutions Podgorica, which was registered in Montenegro. This was an illegal payment processor for two scammers Uwe Lenhoff and Gal Barak. The latter was sentenced to four years in prison in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials (#VCT). Lenhoff was found dead in his prison cell before the trial began. Previously, Vujosevic had claimed that Gal Barak had issued a murder order against him.

January 17, 2021

Payvision and Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Let’s scam the scammers and the EFRI Campaign

Oh yes, the alleged German cybercrime mastermind Uwe Lenhoff was a very good acquaintance of Payvision founder and CEO Rudolf Booker. They spent skiing vacations together in Austria and communicated a lot. Thanks to the frequent and very open communication between Lenhoff and Booker, their business details can be found in the criminal files. They show how high-risk payment processors work.

January 17, 2021

High-Risk Payment Processors Series and the dark side of finance

Undoubtedly, high-risk payment processors (#HRPP) are at the very center of cybercrime and scams. Very often, they facilitate consumer fraud and related money laundering. In early September 2020, Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials (#VCT) for operating a global scam broker network. A breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime. the forensic analysis of banking and financial data by law enforcement, the trial findings, and the court's reasoning in the verdict also allow investigating the anatomy of high-risk payment processors.

January 10, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The Written Verdict in the Gal Barak Case

The Vienna Crime Trials (#VCT) are not an official term but is used by FinTelegram to refer to the various court proceedings surrounding the E&G Bulgaria cybercrime organization. In September 2020, the Israeli citizen Gal Barak was convicted as the organization's mastermind. He was sentenced to a 4-year prison term, restitution payments, and already seized $2,5 Mio have been declared forfeited. According to the current information, there will be several indictments and court cases under #VCT.

December 22, 2020

Bet90 Holdings – The Zombie company that survived its founder Lenhoff

On December 9, 2020, Bet90 Holdings PLC announced that it had received another €700,000 via a convertible loan. Since the arrest of founder Uwe Lenhoff in January 2019 on charges of operating a cybercrime organization with many online scams and his subsequent death in prison in early July 2020, it is completely unclear how the story will end. Authorities in several countries are still investigating the matter for investment fraud and money laundering and could give the story a few more twists.

December 19, 2020

Kosovo call centers attack Germany with lottery and broker scams

Until the spring of 2019, the LottoPalace scam website attacking German-speaking victims. A few weeks after the German scam mastermind Uwe Lenhoff was arrested, the..

December 9, 2020

Money-laundering complaint filed against Deutsche Handelsbank and PPRO Group

EFRI has filed several crucial money-laundering complaints against banks and payment processors with the competent authorities in various jurisdictions. Without the intentional or negligent facilitation of these institutions, investment fraud by scammers would not be possible in the first place. EFRI has now filed a money laundering complaint against Deutsche Handelsbank and the PPRO Group along with extensive evidence.

December 9, 2020

Money-laundering complaint filed against Deutsche Handelsbank and PPRO Group

December 1, 2020

PPRO Group and its involvement in vast scam operations

PPRO Group consists of PPRO Financial Limited (www.ppro.com), an e-money institution (EMI) regulated by the UK FCA and several other entities in different jurisdictions including South America and Asia. The German PPRO Holding GmbH is the controlling entity. Philipp Nieland, a German citizen, is a director in both companies. The FCA-regulated PPRO Financial has a bank account with the BaFin-regulated Deutsche Handelsbank and through these accounts, it processes payments from scam customers and their victims.

December 1, 2020