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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 19, 2021

Trinity Files – The U.S Case of Gery Shalon, Vienna Cybercrime Trials, and Russian connections

The Georgian-born Israeli Gery "Gabi" Shalon is arguably the mastermind of the world's largest cybercrime organization, stretching over the U.S., Europe, Russia, Georgia, Israel into Asia. The Israeli accountant Ziv Orenstein was one of Shalon's deputies in the U.S. There, they operated illegal gaming schemes and performed the largest cybercrime attack ever on the U.S. financial industry. While waiting for his U.S. trial Shalon continues to operate his cybercrime ventures.

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 11, 2021

Breaking News -German prosecutors filed extradition request for cybercrime principal Gal Barak

Gal Barak was sentenced to four years imprisonment and restitution payments for investment fraud and money laundering as a principal of the Bulgarian cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials (#VCT) opening in early September 2020. It was already clear at the time that other countries would also press charges against Barak if he were found guilty. Barak is currently still in prison in Austria. Germany intends to file charges against him and has sent an extradition request to the Austrian authorities.

January 8, 2021

Gery Shalon Case – Russian home office hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years prison term

The Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for his role in the largest financial hacker attack in US history, which was masterminded and coordinated by the Georgia-born Israeli cybercrime supervillain Gery "Gabi" Shalon. Tyurin has pleaded guilty to the charges and allegedly earned more than $19 Mio for his job. Tyurin controlled hacking activities through a computer infrastructure on five continents from his home office in Moscow.

December 16, 2020

Investor Warning – Boiler Rooms associated with MegaTradeFX, MarketCapital, or SolidCapital

Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) issued an investor warning against the broker scam SolidCapital (www.solidcapital.io), allegedly operated by Royal Gates Ltd, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The scam works with Anydesk and Boiler Rooms with the phone number +442037692938 (one of many). This phone number is connected to other scams like MegaTradeFX or MarketCapital. As a payment processor at SolidCapital, we noticed BridgerPay again.

December 15, 2020

Investor Warning – Boiler Rooms associated with MegaTradeFX, MarketCapital, or SolidCapital

December 15, 2020

Investor Warning – Boiler Rooms associated with MegaTradeFX, MarketCapital, or SolidCapital

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

November 25, 2020

Finally! BaFin orders Deutsche Handelsbank to implement appropriate AML procedures

Deutsche Handelsbank has appeared as a payment processor in many binary options and broker scams. Moreover, the BaFin-regulated institution is a correspondent bank and partner of other regulated payment processors such as MoneyNetint, which also support scams. EFRI has filed a corresponding complaint to BaFin. The German regulator has now officially ordered Deutsche Handelsbank to implement appropriate AML measures to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.