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Fraudulent online investment platform: five arrests of high-value targets

April 21st, 2023 (0)
Eurojust and Europol have supported a new coordinated action against a fraudulent online investment platform, which has so far cost at least 33 000 victims an estimated EUR 89 million. At the request of the German authorities, two action ...

Beware over Covid-19 business email fraud

August 27th, 2021 (0)
Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has recently published a media release to inform that a sophisticated fraud scheme using compromised emails and advance-payment fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Romania, the Netherlands and Ireland as part ...

Large-scale online investment fraud network with hundreds of victims across Europe

May 27th, 2021 (0)
On 11 May 2021, a large criminal network involved in investment fraud and money laundering was dismantled as a result of a cross border operation supported by Europol and Eurojust. The investigation, led by Germany, involved law enforcement and ...

Individuals and companies charged in $165 million global Binary Options fraud scheme

September 4th, 2020 (0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on 02 September, 2020 the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas charging six individuals and four companies with operating a fraudulent ...

Forex fraud: Individual and his company to pay over a million dollar penalty

July 13th, 2020 (0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri entered an order of default judgment finding that Joshua Christian McDonald and his company, Perfection PR Firm ...

Huge wine frauds uncovered in Europe; Legal proceedings

July 3rd, 2020 (0)
Fresh allegations have emerged in a major wine fraud investigation underway at Spain’s top criminal court, the Audencia Nacional. The inquiry centers on the involvement of two of Spain’s biggest wine companies in the fraudulent labelling of young wine ...

Individual and Company ordered to pay $755,000 for Binary Options fraud

June 18th, 2020 (0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued an order granting a permanent injunction against Aaron B. Butler, a former resident of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, ...

Charges in international Binary Options and Digital Asset fraud scheme

May 25th, 2020 (0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement early in May to inform about the filing of a multi-million dollar fraud action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, charging three individuals and three companies with ...

A resident of Denmark charged in $1.5 million Forex fraud scheme

May 25th, 2020 (0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging defendant Casper Mikkelsen, a/k/a “Carsten Nielsen,” a/k/a ...

Alert! Criminals taking advantage of coronavirus anxiety to defraud victims online

March 18th, 2020 (0)
INTERPOL is encouraging the public to exercise caution when buying medical supplies online during the current health crisis, with criminals capitalizing on the situation to run a range of financial scams. With surgical masks and other medical supplies in ...
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