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February 6, 2022

Wanted for court service – Mark Tepterev and his Russian-Estonian hosting provider SmartApe

Israeli Gal Barak, sentenced in September 2020 to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering, was a ringleader of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. He was released from jail on probation. He currently runs defamatory websites in which he slanders FinTelegram, EFRI, and his former partner. An EU court has ordered the hoster SmartApe to delete the articles, but the court order has not been served yet. We are therefore looking for the whereabouts of its director Mark Tepterev.

January 18, 2022

Urgent warning against crypto fake review sites!

We are currently focusing on scam facilitating marketing activities via Google and social media. Currently, warnings from financial market regulators against illegal crypto platforms are literally exploding. FinTelegram has already outlined many times that fraudulent crypto campaigns like Bitcoin Prime are used to trap victims for broker scams. To this end, fake review sites promote fraudulent crypto trading robots with the best ratings and reviews. Here is a list of fake crypto review sites.

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October 24, 2021

Hop Rocks or how to distribute fake financial news!

Hop Rocks is one of the hundreds of digital marketing agencies facilitating scammers and cybercrime activities. The venture was founded in 2019, has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE, and an office in Sri Lanka. On the website, one looks in vain for the details about legal entities or people behind Hop Rocks. Most recently, fake news website operators have hired the agency to place their amounts on reputable online news sites. One of the agency's clients is Gery Shalon's cybercrime organization.

October 20, 2021

R4I – Have you heard about the WALP Entertainment?

We did not know about WALP Entertainment S.R.L. until recently. The company supposedly is registered in Costa Rica and is massively involved in crypto gambling. This offshore entity also operates the unlicensed crypto gambling site Pasino (www.pasino.com) and the unregulated crypto payment processor FaucetPay (www.faucetpay.io). WALP Entertainment is also the issuer of the Feyorra (www.feyorra.com) crypto token, which is positioned as a payment token for the gambling industry.

October 18, 2021

R4I – SmartApe, the Russian-Israeli hosting company for cybercriminals!

Many evil people hate FinTelegram. For a good reason. These people are cybercrime activists who steal money from consumers through illegal websites and get rich doing it. Many of these bad people are Israelis who use the considerable potential of their highly-gifted FinTech pundits to steal money in the cyberfinance space. FinTelegram writes about these people. We are hated and slandered for this, for example, by people around Gery Shalon, Gal Barak, or Vladislav Smirnov, who run defamatory websites via the hoster SmartApe.

September 11, 2020

Investor Alert – Do not trust TrustPilot Ratings and Reviews #CapitalWay

We have been monitoring the TrustPilot review platform in the context of scams activities. Specifically, we have reported on the case of Capital Way aka Capital Way Group on the basis of a public investor warning issued by the UK regulator FCA. While the UK watchdog warned investors about the scam, the scam on TrustPilot still gets 5-stars reviews. A 1-star rating of FinTelegram referring to the FCA warning has been temporarily put offline by TrustPilot after the Capital Way guys complained about a possible breach of guidelines.