Marina BARAK was the acquittal a misjudgment?

MARINA BARAK – was her preliminary acquittal a misjudgement?

When German and Austrian prosecutors arrested Gal BARAK (the Wolf of Sofia) in Sofia on January 29, 2019, Marina BARAK took over the management of the boiler rooms of the cybertrading platforms xtraderfx, OptionStarsglobal, and safemarkets. Some of the victims registered with EFRI transferred money to the scam platforms by

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Kobenhavns Andelskasse scammers

How Kobenhavns Andelskasse got hijacked by scammers!

Kobenhavns Andelskasse (a/k/a Copenhagen Cooperative Fund or KBH Andelskasse), a small Danish regulated bank, collected and transferred hundreds of millions of stolen money to boiler room scammers in 2017 and 2018 after it got hijacked by scammers.   To date, EFRI represents more than 1.100 European consumers who have been

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Interview EFRI

Interview Part II: Decipering cybercrime and scams!

For Part, I of the interview with the EFRI founder Elfriede Sixt go here. Q 6. How did BitRush develop into the Lenhoff cybercrime case? Although knowing about the money laundering claims, Joachim Kalcher, the then technical chief operator of Bitrush Corp, teamed up with Uwe Lenhoff. He continued to pursue his

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Bulgaria - a money-laundering hub

BULGARIA – An EU scam and money-laundering hub

Gal and Marina BARAK’s Bulgarian money-laundering organization On 1 September 2020, the by now infamous Wolf of Sofia, the Israeli citizen Gal BARAK was found guilty of serious fraud and money laundering as operator and beneficial owner of the cybercrime organization of E&G Bulgaria, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. During the

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Hong Kong a center for scammers

Hong Kong is 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 activities are limited to social media and messenger services. The perfect environment for financial fraud is right now reaching new dimensions. Acting cross-border is

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Payvision a huge PSP for scammers

PAYVISION B. V. was a huge PSP for scammers (Part I)

PAYVISION B.V. was the primary payment service provider for big scammers PAYVISION B.V., registered in Amsterdam, is a payment service provider founded in 2002 by Rudolf BOOKER and his partners to offer payment services to online shops. PAYVISION has been granted a license as a Payment Institution under the Payment

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EBA steps up with anti money laundering

EU steps up in anti-money laundering!

The money laundering scandals of recent years in the European Union have shown that the European Union’s banking sector, particularly, remains highly vulnerable to cross-border money laundering. Some late scandals like the #Wirecard scandal in Germany and the #Kobenhavn Andelskasse scandal or the Danske Bank scandal in Denmark made the

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WHICH Push Payments

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 to send money via online banking to an account controlled by the scammers. As you gave instructions to your bank and authorized them to send the money to a different

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Have you been SCAMMED?

Have you been scammed?

So you just noticed that your “best buddy” – a boiler room guy who has told you that he is probably one of the most experienced online traders ever – is no longer reachable for you. Neither he nor anyone else from the frenzy online trading website reacts to your

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