These 81 Investment Platforms Were Part of a Scam Network. Here’s What We Learned About Them. They looked like different brokers competing for your investment. Underneath, they shared the same staff, the same spreadsheets, and the same goal: whisking your money away.

Our #ScamEmpire project revealed how sophisticated scam call centers ruined thousands of victims’ lives using fake investment platforms.

Now we investigate 81 of these platforms, revealing their scam tactics.

As of now, 15 of the 81 platforms uncovered by reporters are still online. #ScamEmpire

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Scam Operations Relied on Third-Party Marketing Companies for Steady Stream of Potential Victims Two professional scam call-center operations depended on affiliate marketing firms to supply them with contact details of people who had clicked on ads for phony investment platforms. The marketers…

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta projected last year that 10% of its overall income would come from advertising for scams or banned goods, Reuters reports.

The #ScamEmpire project revealed how social media ads were central to scammers' strategies:

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#ScamEmpire #Impact

Scam Empire: How Criminal Call Centers Make Millions From Investment Scams Scam call centers have been a scourge for years, conning ordinary people around the world out of hundreds of billions of dollars. Touting fake celebrity endorsements and deploying the latest technolog...

Read more about the #ScamEmpire project and our findings here:

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Behind the Scam: How Fraudsters Use Social Media, Software, and Shell Companies to Steal Millions Professional scammers call upon a global network of service providers to execute their work in a sophisticated, streamlined fashion. Here are some of their names.

NEW: The #ScamEmpire project revealed the inner workings of call centers where scammers hawk fake investment products to victims around the world.

But these expert manipulators don’t operate in a vacuum — they rely on an ecosystem of tech products and other services:

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Despite Criminal Probe, Georgian Call-Center Scammers Are Back At Work Last month, more than 30 media outlets reported on a global scam operation based in Tbilisi, prompting Georgian authorities to launch an investigation. But newly obtained telecom records show that the...

NEW: Despite a criminal probe in Georgia, call center from our #ScamEmpire investigation appears to be back. According to newly obtained records, the scammers have continued making calls using a VoIP service that allows them to disguise their country of origin. www.occrp.org/en/project/s...

In case you missed it:
#ScamEmpire a three-part series showing an international syndicate running over 70 suspected fraudulent online trading platforms worldwide, using real South African licenses, shell firms, and fake celebrity endorsements. 

https://amabhungane.org/category/scam-empire/

#ScamEmpire Part 3: In the latest instalment of our investigation on fraudulent online trading platforms we expose the shocking middlemen who actually collect your money. Read more here.

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#ScamEmpire Part 3: When unsuspecting “investors” sign up for what look like legitimate, sleek trading websites they have no idea of the shady financial architecture whirring in the background. Here’s where the money really goes.

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#SCAMEMPIRE PART THREE:
In the latest instalment of our investigation on fraudulent online trading platforms we expose the shocking middlemen who actually collect your money.

Huge Ecosystem of Unregulated Payment Providers Helps Scammers Collect Victims’ Money Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies, proxy account holders, and sham paperwork to receive funds from their victims th...

¿Cómo se cobra una estafa? | #ScamEmpire

El auge de las neobancas digitales ha sido de gran ayuda para estafadores que, usando diferentes métodos, consiguen que sus víctimas pongan importantes sumas de dinero en cuentas irrastreables. Hasta ahora:

TODAY: Join us for an exclusive event exploring the findings behind our latest investigation into sprawling financial scam networks #ScamEmpire. This session is designed for professionals working in compliance, due diligence, law enforcement, banking, and policy mailchi.mp/occrp/occrp-...

Join us for an exclusive event exploring the findings behind our latest cross-border investigation into financial scam networks #ScamEmpire. In this live OCCRP Briefing, journalists who broke the story will explain why #KYC and #AML safeguards failed to stop it mailchi.mp/occrp/occrp-...

Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) London 2025 Join us on March 26 and 27 for the Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) London 2025 in London, United Kindgom.

Scam tactics are evolving, and so must our response. OCCRP Deputy Editors in Chief Julia Wallace and Peter Jones will speak about our #ScamEmpire project at the Global Anti-Scam Summit today.

Learn how scammers operate — and how to stop them. Register: www.gasa.org/gass-2025-lo...

From the europe community on Reddit: Hi, we investigated two scam call center networks from the inside and uncovered their dirty tricks and hidden structures. Ask us anything! Explore this post and more from the europe community

OCCRP editors Ilya Lozovsky and Laura Mannering and @svt journalist Björn Tunbäck will be answering questions about the #ScamEmpire project on r/europe at 3pm CET today 👇

Ericsson Cuts Relationship With Israeli Firm That Provided Tech Used by Scammers The Israeli company Coperato provides technology that is widely used for legitimate purposes, but has also been utilized by scammers, because it can mask the true origin of a phone call.

IMPACT: Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has cut business ties with an Israeli company that provided calling technology to the global scam operations uncovered by OCCRP and partners in #ScamEmpire www.occrp.org/en/news/eric...

NEW: They thought they were untraceable — but we tracked them down.

Our latest documentary goes inside a call center that ran brazen investment scams from Georgia.

Watch “Inside a Merciless Scam Empire” now 👇

#ScamEmpire

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Scam Empire part 2: behind the veil

#SCAMEMPIRE PART TWO - The multinational “online trading” syndicate we exposed two weeks ago is spreading its wings with several new platforms launched since November last year. Here’s who seems to be pulling the levers…

Los ciberestafadores usan proveedores ilegales de pagos para mover el dinero de sus víctimas El dinero del cirujano español estafado se pierde tras haber sido ingresado en la cuenta de una empresa fantasma en el Santander y pasar de allí

Investigación #ScamEmpire
Los ciberestafadores usan proveedores ilegales de pagos para mover el dinero de sus víctimas.

Un trabajo del @occrp.org
sobre las ciberestafas en el que participa @infolibre.es
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Huge Ecosystem of Unregulated Payment Providers Helps Scammers Collect Victims’ Money Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies, proxy account holders, and sham paperwork to receive funds from their victims th...

Wie kommen Krypto-Betrüger an das Geld ihrer Opfer? @occrp.org enthüllt ein Netz an „Dienstleistern“ und Scheinfirmen, die immer neue Wege finden Geld durch das weltweite Finanzsystem zu leiten. #ScamEmpire

Los ciberestafadores usan proveedores ilegales de pagos para mover el dinero de sus víctimas El dinero del cirujano español estafado se pierde tras haber sido ingresado en la cuenta de una empresa fantasma en el Santander y pasar de allí

‼️ Investigación #ScamEmpire

Los ciberestafadores usan proveedores ilegales de pagos para mover el dinero de sus víctimas

Una investigación de @occrp.org en la que participa infoLibre como único medio español www.infolibre.es/investigacio...

The Big Bash Dubai 2022 #scamempire

Inversiones falsas, amigos falsos, plataformas comerciales falsas: pensaron que pasarían desapercibidos. Pero los encontramos. #ScamEmpire de la portada de #ZDF, @papertrailmedia.de, @occrp.org, SVT y muchos más. ahora en YouTube 👇

La red israelí de ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell Los tres grandes bancos españoles movieron al menos dos millones de euros de la trama criminal dirigida desde Israel y Chipre en apenas unos mese

‼️ *INVESTIGACIÓN #ScamEmpire*

👉 *La red israelí de #ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell*, por Begoña P. Ramírez

La red israelí de ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell Los tres grandes bancos españoles movieron al menos dos millones de euros de la trama criminal dirigida desde Israel y Chipre en apenas unos mese

#ScamEmpire
La red israelí de ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell.
Por Begoña P. Ramírez

Una investigación del consorcio de medios @occrp.org, al que pertenece @infolibre.es
www.infolibre.es/investigacio...

'Scam Empire': la industria del ciberfraude de inversiones, al descubierto en infoLibre 'Scam Empire' es una investigación del consorcio de medios OCCRP, al que pertenece infoLibre, la televisión pública sueca SVT y otros 30 medios d

🗃️ Dosier | #ScamEmpire es una investigación del consorcio @occrp.org al que pertenece infoLibre

Hemos destapado dos grupos de call-centers que han estafado al menos 265 millones de euros haciendo creer a las víctimas que estaban invirtiendo

Léelo aquí ow.ly/8HyF50VbKO9

Los tres grandes bancos españoles movieron al menos dos millones de euros de la trama criminal dirigida desde Israel y Chipre en apenas unos meses, por Begoña P Ramírez @occrp.org #ScamEmpire ow.ly/PmBc50Vl49J

La red israelí de ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell Los tres grandes bancos españoles movieron al menos dos millones de euros de la trama criminal dirigida desde Israel y Chipre en apenas unos mese

‼️INVESTIGACIÓN #ScamEmpire

La red israelí de ciberfraude creó 61 empresas pantalla que operaron sin trabas con cuentas de BBVA, Santander y Sabadell, por Begoña P Ramírez

Una investigación de @occrp.org que infoLibre publica en exclusiva en España ow.ly/PmBc50Vl49J