EFRI Principal Elfriede Sixt gave an interview to the German magazine DER SPIEGEL about the functioning of illegal boiler rooms and the situation of broker scams in Germany. Read the article here.
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Investor Alert: Please DO NOT download ANYDESK!
During the hearing of the witnesses in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials last week (please read more here on FinTelegram) it got evident how crucial for the fraud was the use of the remote software tool AnyDesk. More or less all Gal Barak`s victims told the judge that they were heavily pushed by the boiler room agents (i.e. the call center guys) to download this free-of-charge software tool thus enabling the fraudsters to remote access the PC of the victims and to purportedly "assist" them.
