Elfriede Sixt

November 26, 2020

MEPs in charge of Internal Market and consumer protection in Europe to address for our concerns.

The EFRI-Initiative was set up because we think that consumer protection should have definitely more focus on Cybercrime threats for the European consumers as cyber..

November 23, 2020

EFRI`s Request for Initiation of Infringement proceedings against GERMANY, NETHERLANDS AND BULGARIA

As of today EFRI represents 876 mainly European victims who lost their lifetime savings of more than EUR 45.9 million to boiler room scammers. EUR..

November 16, 2020

BULGARIA – An EU scam and money laundering hub

The money laundering system of the Gal BARAK Cybercrime organization On 1 September 2020, a first verdict was reached at the Vienna Criminal Court within..

November 10, 2020

Hong Kong – a great place for scammers!

Amid the COVID-19 pandemics dozens of millions of people are locked down in their home office or must apply social distancing rules. Hence, their social..

November 9, 2020

SCAM ALERT: Scammers are using the EFRI logo to defraud people!

Harvey is not real! – he is just a little guy trying to be a shark! We got emails from fraud victims out there asking..

October 23, 2020

Scammers and their bankers (Part I): PAYVISION, a huge Payment Service Provider for the scamming industry:

PAYVISION B.V., registered in Amsterdam, is a payment service provider founded in 2002 by Rudolf BOOKER and his partners to provide payment services for online..

September 9, 2020

GAL BARAK – former CEO of Bulgarian and Serbian boiler rooms and beneficial owner of a major international binary option and Forex fraud scheme sentenced to 4 Years in prison in Vienna, Austria.

On 1 September 2020, Gal BARAK, a citizen of Israel, 33, was sentenced to 4 years in prison at the Regional Court of Vienna, by..

August 25, 2020

EFRI`S UNITED AGAINST INVESTMENT FRAUD WEEK!

Only a very small number of victims of online investment fraud (including boiler room fraud, ponzi and pyramid schemes) report their fraud cases to the..

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August 13, 2020

EU is taking more steps to fight the money laundering Issue.

The money laundering scandals of recent years in the European Union have shown that the banking sector in the European Union in particular remains extremely..

August 12, 2020

All about Authorized Push Payments!

Did you transfer money to a scammer by using online-banking tools? if yes, pls read this: So scammers convinced you by making false pretenses to..

Author: Elfriede Sixt