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September 19, 2021

CySEC-regulated FXVC attacks European consumers with offshore entity Gstaad Brokers

FXVC is operated by Finteractive Ltd, a broker regulated by CySEC with the approved domain www.fxcv.com/eu under the license 238/14. Its offshore entity Gstaad Brokers Ltd, regulated by the FSA in Seychelles, operates on www.fxvc.com/int and illegally solicits EU residents, onboarding them without proper onboarding or KYC and AML verification. In April 2021, the UK FCA banned FXVC for its inappropriate practices, including misleading financial promotions. Moreover, the FXVC trading platform is used by big broker scams.

September 16, 2021

Gery Shalon – The Plea Deal and the forfeited fortune of a cybercrime mastermind

In 2015, U.S. prosecutors charged the Georgia-born Israeli citizen Gery "Gabi" Shalon in a twenty-three count Superseding Indictment. He was charged with computer hacking, securities fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal online gambling, illegal money transmitting business, and money laundering. Most of the files are still unsealed. What is known now is that in April 2017, Shalon has pled guilty to all 23 counts and made a plea deal with prosecutors that included transferring all seized funds and assets to the United States. We are talking about a real big fortune. We are talking about a real big fortune including a $74.7M bank account.

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September 15, 2021

CySEC rebooted? Chairwoman Demetra Kalogerou already vanished!

Long-term CySEC Chairwoman Demetra Kalogerou already vanished from the regulator's website. George Theocharides, the current Vice-Chairman, is expected to succeed Demetra Kalogerou as Chairman. Theocharides’ appointment was arranged already a year ago. He agreed to serve first as a Vice-Chairman for 14 months alongside Kalogerou, whose term ends on September 14 after serving two terms. Demetra Kalogerou was appointed in 2011. Theocharides, 49, will become the second academic to take the helm at CySEC. The first was Marios Clerides, Financial Mirror reports.

September 15, 2021

Alert! Wellington Holdings scam facilitated by SysPay, Coinicash, and AdvCash

The Swiss regulator FINMA has recently issued an investor warning against the Wellington Holdings scam (www.wellingtonholdings.com). The scam operators do not disclose any information about the legal entity or persons but give Bleicherweg 10 in 8002 Zurich, Switzerland, as the address. This is bullshit, says FINMA. As a payment processor, we once again found SysPay, regulated by the Maltese regulator MFSA, in criminal collusion with Coinicash and AdvCash. We also noticed this combination most recently in the Cento GX scam.

September 13, 2021

Investor warning – FinoMarkets facilitated by Coinicash, AdvCash, and Texcent

Spanish financial markets authority CNMV issued a warning against FinoMarkets on September 13, 2021. The scam's website does not specify an operator or a competent jurisdiction. However, we have again Coinicash acting as a payment processor for credit and debit card payments. Coinicash is again facilitating in its capacity as a registered merchant with Texcent and AdvCash, who actually process the payments. Victims' deposits are apparently represented and miscoded as purchases of cryptocurrencies on the Coinicash exchange.

September 10, 2021

Introducing scam-facilitating payment processor NeoBanQ

NeoBanQ is one of the most aggressive scam-facilitating payment processors for credit and debit card processing. To name a few, Apollo Finances, Fortexo, ProfitMarket, ProAktivMarket, or StatusMarkets we have uncovered in the last few weeks. Often NeoBanQ works in combination with BridgerPay cashier. NeoBanQ is operated through an unregulated legal entity in the United Kingdom and controlled by Billy Eldridge. Since its launch in early 2020, the payment processor has facilitated dozens of major scams.

September 9, 2021

Attention! The ProfitMarket broker scam facilitated by Jubiter et al

A incoming email refers to the already well-known fake article in The Financial Magazine about a student who became a millionaire. With his system, anyone could earn more than €10,000 within 21 days. The link in the article leads to the notorious Bitcoin System fraud campaign on Safe Offers. There are we promised $13,000 earnings within 24 hours. After registering, we land on the payment page of the broker scam ProfitMarket (www.profitmarket.net) and find there on the facilitating crypto payment processor Jubiter and other acquaintances.

September 8, 2021

Investor attention! Don’t fall for the CoinsBanking scam facilitated by Praxis Cashier

The fraudulent Profit Maximizer (https://the-profitmaximizer.com) campaign today promotes the CoinsBanking broker scam (www.coinsbanking.com). Anyone registering with the campaign is automatically registered as a future victim at CoinsBanking and redirected to the scam's payment page. There we meet Praxis Cashier to lose our money via credit and debit card payments. Coinswitch Ltd, registered in the Commonwealth of Dominica, is stated as the operator of the scam. The scam attacks in English, German, and Arabic.

September 7, 2021

Introducing crypto payment processor Global DLT Exchange with Jubiter and Coindeck

Coindeck is a new high-risk crypto payment processor brand operated by Slovakia-based Global DLT Exchange S.R.O., which also operates Jubiter. The latter was the trade name of Estonian Jubiter Technologies OÜ, which was licensed until February 2021. After many scam involvements, the company lost or renounced its license. Jubiter was transferred to Global DLT Exchange S.R.O. but continued to surface as a scam facilitator. Frequently together with BridgerPay. Most recently, we also found both in the GoldBachInvest scam.

September 6, 2021

Latvian Racket – Spanish regulator warns against Morgan FX Capital scam

Today, the Spanish regulator CNMV has issued a warning against the Morgan FX Capital (www.morganfxcapital.com) broker scam. The operator of this scam is UK-registered Preqster Ltd which already operated the vanished scams Pips500 (www.pips500.com) and Preqster FX (www.preqsterFX.com). It is controlled by the Latvian citizen Sergejs Vasiljevs and is one of the many legal entities of the so-called Latvian Racket. n our review today, none of Morgan FX Capital's payment options worked.

September 5, 2021

More victim complaints against the Infinitrade scam and Paytah

In May 2020, the UK FCA issued an investor warning against the Infinitrade (www.infinitrade.com and www.infinitrade.io) broker scam, operated by offshore entity A&E Products Ltd. The scam has been facilitated by payment processors Praxis Cashier System Ltd d/b/a Praxis Cashier, Phoenix Payments Ltd d/b/a Paytah, and Finligue Grupp OÜ d/b/a Crypto1. The Maltese regulator MFSA has received complaints from victims about Paytah and its scam clients. Despite FCA's warning, PayTah and Crypto1 have continued to support the Infinitrade scam.

September 4, 2021

Israeli fund recovery schemes chasing scam victims

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.