@ArmitageJim @premnsikka @retheauditors 1/ The curious case of the ChoopaCabre (sic). In 2015 the NYTimes carried out an ‘old school’ expose on the shadowy world of the payment processor facilitators of notorious reported illegal offshore gambling ops allegedly targeting …
2/ USA punters. Many of these payment processor facilitators are ‘old hands’ from the shadowy world of facilitating notorious affiliate online pornography +/or unlawful (in many countries) Pharma dispensary(eg Viagra)/scam ops. We’ve seen already the likes of the notorious …
3/ #Electracash USA Cheque payment processor () + it’s alleged links to the notorious UK ‘Consett formation factory’ as allegedly also with Mindgeek (aka PornHub, Redtube etc) (). In the NYTimes piece, notorious offshore gambling …
4/ op BetOnline.com (since rebranded to BetOnline.AG) allegedly had #VISA credit card gambling payments processed via a ‘dummy’ UK webstore (aka “transaction laundry”) ‘Moser Safety’ in ‘rogue PSP’ fashion () allegedly morphing …
5/ what should have been high risk offshore gambling merchant category & country codes in to low risk UK merchant web-store codes. Unsurprisingly, digging a little deeper it turned out ‘Moser Safety’ was in fact a constituent of the notorious UK ‘Consett formation factory’ - …
6/ ‘Moser Media Ltd’. One of numerous alleged ‘transaction laundries’ facilitating the nefarious activities of ‘rogue PSPs’ etc in @theFCA’s #emoney scene as allegedly in aggregate £b’s like this moved through the UK financial system.
7/ The NYTimes in researching notorious illegal online gambling op #BetEagle went on to uncover a ‘nest of 100 online gambling sites, none licensed by the state’ + whose content it’s alleged was delivered by Vultr LLC. Vultr LLC was reported run by ‘David Aninowsky’ along …
8/ with Choopa LLC. It was reported that one of David Aninowsky’s companies was banned by France from hosting an unlicensed French gambling site. Recently David Aninowsky has rebranded to ‘Constant’. 2 weeks ago a purported USA resident BetOnline.AG gambler …
9/ alleged that rather than his payment to BetOnline.AG appearing on his ‘bank account’ as from BetOnline.AG, instead a transaction appeared from “Jamestsa.com, some bogus auto webstore”. Current DNS records show the Jamestsa.com …
10/ web-store’s A record IP address as allegedly Choopa LLC - small world!. Reverse DNS on the A record IP address shows multiple allegedly ‘dummy’ web-stores. Unsurprisingly back in 2009 in a ‘handbags at dawn’ USA court case between pornography kingpins …
11/ (Cammarata v. Bright Imperial Ltd), Choopa LLC was alleged to be hosting the infamous Redtube online pornography site. Meanwhile, back in the UK, while @theFCA(FSA) turned a blind eye, swarms of notorious USA, German & Israeli payment processor ‘kingpins’ with …
12/ long histories of facilitating affiliate online pornography/gambling & illegal online Pharma dispensary/scam ops turned the FCA’s notorious ‘small caps cesspit’ & #emoney scene in to glorified ‘transaction laundries’ with notorious ‘formation factories’. With the …
13/ alleged ‘blind eyes’ of VISA prepaid card issuers, prepaid cards were used en masse to facilitate affiliate online pornography/gambling & illegal online Pharma dispensary/scam ops + also to mask chargeback ratios by allegedly creating streams of thousands of fake prepaid …
14/14 transactions via fake merchants. These transaction laundries it’s also been alleged found use in large scale #MoneyLaundering ops. Much more to come … meanwhile @theFCA & BaFin as always sleep at the wheel.
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