Tag: Yukom

A few days ago, Israeli citizen Sabrina Elofer was sentenced to six months of house arrest by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in connection with the vast Israeli binary options fraud scheme Yukom Communications. As part of her settlement, Elofer has also agreed to pay more than $2.9 million in restitution. Binary options were banned in most regulatory regimes in 2017, but fraud schemes will keep the courts busy for longer.

Yukom Communications was the Israeli boiler room operator behind vast binary options scams BigOption, BinaryBook, or BinaryOnline and caused retail investors worldwide $150M losses. Elad Bigelman was the brand manager for BigOption. On March 14, 2022, Judge Paula Xinis handed a prison term of 36 months and three years of supervised release to Bigelman. It was the latest decision in the still-pending Yukom Case

Israeli lawyer Moshe Strugano, 52, is a greedy man always looking for more money. He was one of the facilitating lawyers of the fraudulent Israeli binary options scene. Scammers like Yossi Herzog, Kobi Cohen, Lee Elbaz, David Cartu, et al have run dozens of binary options scams worldwide, defrauding tens of thousands of consumers out of hundreds of millions. They could not have done this without the support of lawyers like Moshe Strugano. The US prosecutors charged him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud and sought his extradition from Israel.

This is perhaps not too good news for the German regulator. Fibonatix, founded by the Israeli Tal Miller, is a notorious high-risk payment processor. It has been facilitating dozens of broker scams. Fibonatix was also one of the payment processors of Gal Barak's cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. Barak confirmed that in addition to Payvision, Fibonatix was laundering stolen funds. Fibonatix, regulated as a payment institution by the FCA since 2018, announced the opening of an office in Berlin. It plans to serve the put a specific focus on the DACH region!

Israeli fintech pundits also invented binary options industry. Big players like SpotOption, PandaTS, or Tradologic had thousands of binary options schemes running on their platforms as white-label clients. Binary options turned out to be ultimately a gigantic fraud industry. Conveniently, fund recovery companies have also emerged in Israel, often run by former scammers. Schemes like Europe Refund or MyQuickRefund run massive Google Ad campaigns to acquire scam victims and sell their expensive services.

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.

UK FCA issued investor warnings against two suspected fund recovery scams Trader Recovery (www.traderrecovery.co.uk) and National Association of Refund Expert Bureaux (www.refund-expert.org). The former's website is currently down. It is a sad fact that there are more and more fund recovery scams that lure even more money out of already damaged victims of scams by promising them to get their money back. Unfortunately, they are nothing but super-toxic.

Lee Elbaz, an Israeli, was hired as the CEO for the Yukom boiler room in Israel. She managed the fraud on investors under direction and instruction. The U.S. jury found her guilty of fraud. She was sentenced to 22 years in prison and $28 million in restitution payments. On Dec. 18, 2020, she filed the appeal, asking for a vacation of the conviction because her former boss Yossi Herzog, also charged, has not provided testimony. He would have confirmed that Elbaz had no intention to commit fraud, the appeal argues.

A few days ago FinTelegram reported that Australian media uncovered the scam activities of the Israeli Yossi Herzog in Australia. Herzog, along with his partner Kobi Cohen and other co-conspirators, has been charged with binary options fraud in the U.S. His former employee Lee Elbaz, as CEO of Yukom scam, has already been sentenced to 22 years in prison and a $28 million restitution payment. Yossi Herzog's scam network is truly global and developed some real supervillains.

Yossi Herzog, charged in the Yukom Case in the U.S. with binary options fraud to the tune of $200 million is one of the alleged supervillains of the binary options era. Apparently, he defrauded tens of thousands of victims out of hundreds of millions with his broker schemes in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. As a result of Australian investigations, the Australian regulator ASIC is now heavily criticized for not having taken action against Herzog and his scams earlier.

Over the last weeks and months, we have painstakingly worked through the history behind the Moneta International UAB, which...

FinTelegram received information connected to binary options scams around David Cartu. These include court documents provided by retail investors who have already filed criminal complaints in various jurisdictions.