Payvision BV, a 100% entity of ING Bank NV (one of the biggest bank in Europe) was identified by the Austrian law enforcement agency as being the main payment processor for a vast criminal organization headed by Gal Barak, Gery Shalon, Uwe Lenhoff and others. Payvision willfully, and ruthlessley violated
Cybercrime has become a threat to our society! Recent data reveals an alarming rise in cybercrime, posing a significant threat to our global society. A comprehensive study conducted by the renowned digital industry association Bitkom, underscores the gravity of the situation. It indicates that cyberattacks, often linked to organized crime
Letters sent out with a strictly confidential clause always tend to be interesting for many more people than the addressees. Last night, some Barak and Lenhoff victims represented by EFRI presumably received a refund offer from ING! As there are thousands of ING victims out there (a total of more
During the past four years, the European Commission worked on legislative initiatives to upgrade the EU’s digital services rules: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Digital Services Act is aimed to establish a new set of obligations for hosting services, marketplaces, and online platforms
As we have seen so often in the past years, the European authorities have been mainly concerned with protecting the interests of the business users in drafting the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and have forgotten about the so much-needed consumer protection. It is about time to enhance consumer protection in
The Directive for the Rights of Victims (DIRECTIVE 2012/29/EU) in principle prescribes everything needed to protect consumers and care for fraud victims. Based on experiences made by the fraud victims we represent we realized that there is a severe backlog in adopting this Victims´Rights Directive in many European Union member
Today, EFRI represents 876 mainly European victims who lost their life savings of more than EUR 45.9 million to boiler room scammers. Fraud victims transferred EUR 45.9 million to beneficial owners of fraudulent websites through various European banks/financial service providers. Our updated Follow the Money evaluation (downloadable here) and our studies of the
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
EFRI is the abbreviation for European Funds Recovery Initiative. The legal entity behind this Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation (EFRI-Association) registered in Vienna, Austria. Here you can read the statutes of the not-for-profit organization. Read More
