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September 25, 2021

Urgent Warning! JoyTrust scammers fake Blockchain.com

We recently warned again about the JoyTrust broker scam. The German regulator BaFin has announced an investigation into the fraud, and its operator, the UK-registered Top Suite Ltd. The scam continues to be very aggressive and attacks victims in Europe. Currently, JoyTrust contacts potential victims falsely claiming that the customer has a high balance on his Blockchain.com wallet and only needs to pay a $250 conversion fee to get it. As proof, they send a copy of a fake ID of a Blockchain.com employee called Robert Mendes. Please do not fall for it.

September 23, 2021

R4I – The Amsterdam-New York Connection with Safened, fourthline, and Payvision spin-off Cetler

Safened is the trading name of Safened-Fourthline Limited, a company licensed by the FCA as an Authorised Payment Institution since May 2018. Safenet-Fourthline Opco Holding B.V. in Amsterdam controls the company, says UK Companies House. A director of Safened-Forthline is Payvision founder Rudolf Booker. SafeNed Deposits B.V. in Amsterdam is also connected to Safened. All companies are registered at Tesselschadestraat 12 in 1054 Amsterdam. The Payvision spin-off Cetler B.V. is also located there.

September 22, 2021

U.S. Fraud Complaint against T1 Payments, Payvision and its spin-off Cetler

There is no end to the drama surrounding the disgraced Dutch FinTech and high-risk payment processor Payvision. The ING subsidiary and its founders Rudolph Booker, Gijs op de Weegh, and Cheng Liem Li have been facing allegations of having facilitated scams and cybercrime for many years. In addition to criminal investigations and victims' claims, there are also lawsuits in the U.S. filed against Payvision and its spin-off Cetler. They allegedly were working in collusion with the T1 Payments group. Here's the story.

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September 21, 2021

Warning! FundsProMax scam pretends to be BaFin!

Currently, the broker scam FundsProMax (www.fundspromax.com) sends emails in which employees of the scam pretend to be representatives of the "recovery department" of BaFin. They tell us that there is a balance of €500 in our account. They would like to pay this out. To discuss the payment, please give them your telephone number and be prepared to talk to them. BaFin warns on its website that these scammers use the BaFin name fraudulently. Do not fall for FundsProMax!

September 19, 2021

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

FXVC is operated by Finteractive Ltd (previously Centralspot Trading 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

September 18, 2021

Wellington Holdings, Solid Invest, and the huge Capital Letter scam network

It is indeed a huge scam network. Scams will typically either take offshore companies or simply invent fake companies. Only rarely, they are operated by companies in Europe as is the case with the Capital Letter scam network. Capital Letter GmbH, registered in Munich, Germany was the operator of several large scams until the end of 2020. In addition, two other companies also registered in Germany, Brunnlitz GmbH and Tokkata Software GmbH, participated in the scams. All three companies are operated by Ukrainian individuals; all received warnings from regulators.

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.