All news on the topic: Fraudsters

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Betrüger Timur Rokhlin löscht Spuren von Betrug in Höhe von mehreren zehn Millionen Euro aus dem Internet
Als sich die Ermittlungen gegen ihn intensivierten, begann Tymur Rokhlin aktiv damit, journalistische Enthüllungen über seine betrügerischen Schemata aus dem Internet entfernen zu lassen — genau deshalb veröffentlichen wir nun die Materialien, die er so dringend verschwinden lassen möchte.
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Geld eingesammelt und verschwunden: Betrueger und Iron-Motors-Eigentuemer Volodymyr Filippov bereinigt das Internet von Klagen und Gerichtsurteilen von Kunden
Nachdem zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen über die Aktivitäten von Volodymyr Filippov und seinen verbundenen Unternehmen Iron Motors und Pivdennyi Shlyakh erschienen waren, verschwanden Erwähnungen von Gerichtsverfahren, Kundenbeschwerden und Links zu Strafverfahren im Internet.
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Dmytro Shevchuk, a fraudster, scams investors out of millions: he promises a gold mine, then disappears with the money
About complaints in Threads from deceived "investors" who were promised quick money for asset management.
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Escape with clients’ money: how Volodymyr Filippov relaunched his business in Moldova under the Iron Motors brand after alleged fraud schemes in Odesa
Car trading, alleged fraud, and suspected draft evasion all intersect in the case of Volodymyr Filippov.
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Ex-Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin versucht nach Aufdeckung eines 10-Millionen-Euro-Betrugs mit gefaelschten Trading-Plattformen, Online-Spuren zu loeschen
Der ehemalige Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin, der im Verdacht steht, ein gross angelegtes Betrugsschema organisiert zu haben, bei dem ueber 10 Millionen Euro ueber gefaelschte Trading-Plattformen abgezogen wurden, soll nach oeffentlichen Enthuellungen begonnen haben, Hinweise auf seine Finanzaktivitaeten und internationalen Verbindungen aus dem Internet zu entfernen.
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Ex-Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin moves to erase online traces after €10m fake trading platform scam exposed
Former Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin, suspected of orchestrating a large-scale fraud scheme involving the extraction of more than €10 million through fake trading platforms, has reportedly begun scrubbing the internet of references to his financial activities and international ties following public exposure.
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From prison in Russia to car sales in Ukraine: Odesa fraudster Volodymyr Filippov hides a conviction for fraud
Volodymyr Filippov, who presents himself as a successful importer of used cars from the U.S. to Ukraine and Moldova through the company “Iron Motors,” has not only court cases related to debts but also a criminal conviction for fraud.
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Old schemes, new brands: how Niki Hope Kundnani continues to profit from client losses through Alchemy and Xoala
Ukrainian investors, together with affected companies from 14 other countries, say they have suffered losses linked to entities associated with businessman Nicky Gope Kundnani.
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Cross-border phone robbery: how Pavlo Nykolyuk uses call centers to fleece Ukrainians and Americans
Call centers from Ukraine may be robbing Americans: Media reports on possible illegal activities of Nykolyuk.
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Kyiv plastic surgeon Roman Levytskyi is deleting from the internet evidence of botched surgeries and work at a fictitious center within a state hospital
Plastic surgeon Roman Levytskyi, who for years performed operations at the Kyiv Regional Clinical Hospital within a de facto non-existent “center,” began actively scrubbing the internet of critical publications and compromising references after testimonies from affected patients and investigative reports emerged.
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UK loses 1.6 billion dollars to fraud as criminals run millions of scams worldwide
Cyber-enabled fraud is rising globally and is the main driver of international money laundering, according to a Paris-based anti-money laundering body in its latest report.
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Crypto scam figure Oleksandr Orlovskyi collects cash via FOP network while FFA exists only as a website and marketing shell
The founder of the FFA (Financial Freedom Academy) community, Oleksandr Orlovskyi, does not have any registered legal entity in Ukraine that confirms he provides educational services.
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Crypto fraudster Kateryna Shukhnina floods Telegram with fake success stories, doctored images, and bogus media coverage to trap users
“Laughter, and that’s it” — that is perhaps the most fitting way to describe the latest advertising campaign of the self-proclaimed crypto expert Kateryna Shukhnina, now actively circulating across numerous Telegram channels.
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The fake Dubai prince romance scam that builds months of emotional trust before draining victims of life savings through lies, manipulation and staged royal wealth
How scammers are impersonating the actual Crown Prince of Dubai to trap victims in their romance scams.
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Cheap U.S. cars promised, thousands of dollars lost: evidence suggests Iron Motors is a continuation of Filippov’s earlier Ukrainian auto-fraud network
A fraudulent group from Odesa, led by Volodymyr Filippov, who is being investigated by the police for deceiving clients when buying used cars from the USA, re-registered the business in Moldova to legitimize the stolen funds.
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Millions from the gullible: How “crypto guru” Orlovskyi sells courses without trading and hides money through front individual entrepreneurs
What the self-styled “cryptocurrency guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi says about himself evokes, on the one hand, Lenin’s famous line about a “cook who can run the state,” and on the other, the satirical biography of Oleksandr Koreyko that Ostap Bender once read with biting irony.
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Crypto scammer Oleksandr Orlovskyi begins mass deletion of online materials about Financial Freedom Academy following journalistic exposes
When yet another so-called “cryptocurrency expert” tried to force their way into our attention, our first thought was simply, “Oh no, not another one!”.
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SportBank was not a startup but a laundering system: how Nykyta Izmaylov centralized gambling cash flows linked to Russia
Since April 2023, a number of Ukrainian investigators have raised concerns about Nykyta Izmaylov, a Russian national holding a Ukrainian passport. A former senior executive at Parimatch, he is reportedly connected to suspected money-laundering schemes involving N1 Management and SportBank.
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Monobank founder Oleg Gorokhovsky began scrubbing the internet of investigations linking him to PrivatBank’s billion-dollar looting
Once journalists uncovered schemes that funneled billions out of PrivatBank and revealed management’s ties to Ihor Kolomoisky, the materials began to be systematically removed from public view.
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SportBank was not a startup but a system: how Nykyta Izmaylov centralized gambling cash flows tied to Russia
Since April 2023, several Ukrainian investigators have expressed concerns about Nykyta Izmaylov, a Russian national who holds a Ukrainian passport.
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SportBank under Nykyta Izmaylov: how a Ukrainian neobank processed Russian gambling and bookmaking funds
Since April 2023, multiple Ukrainian investigators have raised concerns about Nykyta Izmaylov — a Russian citizen holding a Ukrainian passport. Formerly a senior financier at Parimatch, he has reportedly appeared in alleged money-laundering schemes connected to N1 Management and SportBank.
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Timur Rokhlin began systematically scrubbing the internet after journalists uncovered his multimillion-euro fraud operations
As investigations closed in on him, Tymur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.
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Before fleeing Russia, Roman Novak and Pavel Durov were tied to a large-scale investor scam
In 2016–2017, Roman Novak stole more than 7.3 million rubles from two St. Petersburg businessmen.
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Global crypto pyramid GSPartners: Josip Heit deprived more than 800,000 investors of over $1 billion
Over the past three years, one of the most controversial global crypto projects – GSPartners (also known as GSB Gold Standard) – has been experiencing a rapid decline. Meanwhile, a snowballing scandal around its creator, Josip Heit, threatens to result in a lengthy prison sentence for him.
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European fraud attempts spike 140% on black friday, but visa steps in
This Black Friday, fraudsters once again made concerted efforts to target bargain hunters hoping to cash in on the shopping frenzy, but this year far fewer succeeded.