FBI closed down payback

FBI shut down Payback Ltd!

Recovery scammers are probably even worse as the original scammers! When victims realize that they got scammed they are desparate and are searching for help. This is when recovery scammers – having bought the customer (victims) lists from the original scammers – show up and offer help for a substantial

Read More »
brands processed by payvision

Payvision´s cooperation with Gal Barak and Uwe Lenhoff!

The cooperation of Payvision B.V., a Dutch supervised Payment Service provider, with the cybercriminals Gal Barak, Uwe Lenhoff, and his accomplices (Gery Shalon, Vlad Smirnov, and others) began in 2013. The cooperation ended at the end of January 2019 with the arrest of Gal Barak and Uwe Lenhoff. When reading

Read More »
JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS

Spotlight on the Danish Financial Complaint Board!

During the past years, EFRI approached the Danish authorities frequently over the Kobenhavn Andelskasse money laundering case. Until now, we have been disappointed.  They do not care a lot about European online fraud victims. Next to Deutsche Handelsbank and the German Wirecard, Kobenhavn Andelskasse, a small Danish cooperative bank, showed

Read More »
Popular crypto scams

Most popular crypto scams and how to avoid them!

Crypto scams are a plague Although we are in a crypto winter with the crash on the markets also driving down the crypto valuations, we still receive emails from victims about scammers trying to convince them to invest in promising crypto ventures. So, crypto scams are still a plague, and

Read More »
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

Read More »
AAvoid downloading Anydesk

Avoid downloading ANYDESK!

During the hearing of the witnesses in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials last week (please read more here on FinTelegram), it got evident that the remote software tool AnyDesk was involved in all fraud cases. More or less all Gal Barak’s victims told the judge that the boiler room agents heavily pushed them to download

Read More »