Have you seen this famous cult classic movie called “Catch Me If You Can?” If not, let me share a quick gist of what it is about. It’s based on the story of a former con man and convicted felon, Frank Abagnale Jr., played by the famous Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Although, as a young adult, Frank started gaining notoriety in the 1970s for being a crook and fraudster targeting small businesses and individuals – his criminal journey started way early, at just 15. His first victim was his own father, whom he had duped of $3400. From then on, he never looked back and cheated several unsuspecting individuals and companies in multiple countries.
After getting caught and serving time for his crimes, Frank started a consulting service, helping people and businesses learn how to avoid scams involving forged documents. He turned his life around from a convicted felon to an honest consultant, becoming a celebrated author and one of the world’s top authorities on secure documents.
Frank’s story is a special one as it ended on a perfect and happy note. However, not every scammer chooses to go down that path. Most of them simply go back to their old ways of duping and cheating their victims in one form or another. The subject of this article, Warning-Trading.com, and the people behind it are one such example.
What is Warning-Trading.com?
Warning-Trading.com, as per their website, is an internet-based press site run by “journalists” specializing in financial scams. They supposedly exist to help the victims of scams and claim to have helped more than 27,000 victims for free so far.
These are all unsubstantiated claims; no record of any victims helped by Warning-Trading.com exists. We will dive deep into how this elaborate scam is run and operated right before the unsuspecting and clueless authorities. The victims of scams are further hurt by the people behind this site and its sister organizations.
Understanding The Nexus Behind Warning-Trading.com
It is expected that the masterminds of most scamming schemes cheating people out of their money often set up a multi-layered system or structure that helps them hide in plain sight while making it difficult for untrained eyes to see their true intentions. So is the case with Warning-Trading.com as well. Here is a quick look at the setup used by the masterminds behind Warning-Trading.com to run their scamming enterprise.
At the very top of this criminal enterprise is the legal services firm Net and Law, founded in 2014 and based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Their legal details are as follows:
Net and Law OOD
VAT Number: BG203080575
Registered Address: 49, Knyaz Aleksandar Dondukov Boulevard, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Tel.: +33 977 218 278
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/net-and-law
Net and Law is apparently run by Marc Bouzy, the President of Broker Defense, France, the litigation agency of Net and Law. You can see him listed on LinkedIn among the four employees working for the company.
Here’s the LinkedIn page for Marc:
https://fr.linkedin.com/in/marc-bouzy-ab56859a
Is Marc the solo mastermind behind Net and Law? NO! He is only a stooge placed in the front of this massive operation. The actual people behind this enterprise are those with real-life experience in running scams with the help of organized gangs. We will look at the details of these hidden characters working behind this nexus later in this article.
However, why did these people choose Sofia, Bulgaria, of all the places to set up their company? If you remember, the biggest crypto scam to hit the world (in addition to FTX), the infamous OneCoin, founded by another scamster and financial criminal, Dr. Ruja Ignatova, was also headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Is it because of the strong presence of the mafia in the country running security and other companies as fronts for their criminal activities?
Or could this be because Bulgaria is a well-known tax haven with lesser scrutiny applied on companies engaged in defrauding people?
Whatever the case is, one thing is for sure: the criminals operating the nexus behind Warning-Trading.com are no straight arrows. They are deeply entrenched in the gang-like activities of the criminal underworld operating out of Sofia, Bulgaria.
At the bottom of their setup are the sites such as Warning-Trading.com, Signal-Arnaques.com, and CheckandPay.fr. These sites act as the sales funnel, bringing in unsuspecting scam victims using carefully crafted articles pretending to expose different financial scams.
For example, when a scam victim ends up on Warning-Trading.com, they are meticulously led to BrokerDefense.net (Broker Defense, France) and/or CheckandPay.fr through various suggestive texts on the website in the name of helping them fight scam. This is all done in a very matter-of-fact manner to avoid suspicion of any foul play.
BrokerDefense.net and CheckandPay.fr offer a variety of packages for the victims of scams who end up on these websites after reading the scandalous, often made-up, articles on Warning-Trading.com and Signal-Arnaques.com.
Here’s the link with all their packages on offer on Broker Defense:
https://www.brokerdefense.net/nos-services
Their fees range from €35 to a whopping €1800. The unsuspecting victims of scams often fall for these worthless services that have no purpose but to fatten the pockets of the nexus behind Net and Law, Broker Defense (BrokerDefense.net), and Warning-Trading.com.
The above are just a couple of the many packages on their website.
As you can see, the nexus behind this elaborate scheme starts by publishing defaming articles on their press site, Warning-Trading.com, to call out the supposed scam. This allows the nexus to exploit two great ways of making quick money.
First, let us assume that the article is about an actual scam. In that case, the scam victims will likely connect with Broker Defense, France (BrokerDefense.net) and fall for their worthless services. In this case, the nexus makes a chunk of easy money through the hefty fees they charge these poor victims.
In the second scenario, the nexus hopes to extort money from legitimate companies using carefully crafted articles (on Warning-Trading.com and other sites) pointing fingers at them and indirectly labeling them as a “potential scam.” The company, on finding such articles that defame them, reaches out to the people behind Warning-Trading.com and gets fleeced by the nexus in the name of removing such malicious articles.
In doing all this, the nexus behind Warning-Trading.com mostly stays protected throughout the process under the guise of being an investigative journalistic endeavor. In multiple instances, their lies have been caught, and the nexus has been forced to face justice in the courts by the different aggrieved parties.
Multiple ongoing defamation cases are currently filed against the nexus operating Warning-Trading.com. They proudly list them here on this link and even solicit donations from their readers to help them pay the legal fees needed to survive these lawsuits:
https://www.warning-trading.com/warning-trading-attaque-en-justice
Even though these lawsuits often result in Warning-Trading.com having to spend thousands in lawyer fees and damages in the form of compensation for their illegal and defamatory tactics, they continue to keep working on their scheme as they make a lot more money fleecing large sums of fees from the victims of the scams and extorting companies that choose not to go the legal route.
Some of the aggrieved parties, for example, CARINVEST Europe, Deontifi.com, and TradeSources.fr have addressed these illicit activities and scams run by the Warning-Trading.com nexus out in the open..
Here are the links (external sources):
https://carinvesteurope.fr/documentation-aussi-complete-et-transparente-que-possible/
https://deontofi.com/1-warning-trading-en-proces-le-sommaire-sur-deontofi-com/
https://www.tradesources.fr/actualites/peut-on-faire-confiance-au-courtier-alvexo/
You will find that one person is named in all these reports by these companies. You also know how the whole scam behind Warning-Trading.com operates. It is time to meet the real people, the masterminds working behind this nexus.
The Masterminds Behind Net and Law, Broker Defense, France (BrokerDefense.net), Signal-Arnaques.com, CheckandPay.fr, and Warning-Trading.com
Meet Nicolas Gaiardo and Thomas Aurlant (aliases Sebastien Borgeaud, Philippe Miller, and Philippe Touya). These two individuals have been orchestrating the malefic operations of Warning-Trading.com and the other companies involved in their illegal activities.
Nicolas Gaiardo and Thomas Aurlant would want you to think that they are somewhat of messiahs sent to help those who have fallen prey to the various scams. Check out their LinkedIn profile pages, where they proudly call themselves as the ones working to fight the scams of this world.
The LinkedIn profile page for Nicolas Gaiardo:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-gaiardo-12328971
The LinkedIn profile page for Thomas Aurlant (aliases Sebastien Borgeaud, Philippe Miller, and Philippe Touya):
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-miller-34b1105
However, few people know that these two are hiding a VERY BIG SECRET from everyone. A secret that, when revealed, would make them and anyone in their nexus a bunch of untouchables no one in their right mind would want to entertain.
Nicolas Gaiardo and Thomas Aurlant, who present themselves as vigilantes working to help victims of financial scams, are, in fact, something else altogether.
They have been… wait for it…
CONVICTED OF A MASSIVE ORGANIZED FRAUD in 2007 and declared an ACTIVE PART OF THE ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GANG RUNNING A SCAM!
You can read more about the case and sentencing here:
“Ruling publicly, in the first instance and by contradictory judgment, with regard to GAIARDO Nicolas; Declares GAIARDO Nicolas guilty of the acts with which he is accused.
Sentences GAIARDO Nicolas: to 12 months of suspended imprisonment and 1 misdemeanor fine of 5,000.00 Euros for the offense of SCAM CARRIED OUT IN AN ORGANIZED GANG.
Notes that the President gave the convicted person the warning provided for by article 707-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.”
“Ruling publicly, in the first instance and by contradictory judgment, with regard to TOUYA Philippe; Declares TOUYA Philippe guilty of the acts with which he is accused.
Sentences TOUYA Philippe: to 10 months of suspended imprisonment and 1 tort fine of 1000.00 Euros for the offense of SCAM CARRIED OUT IN AN ORGANIZED GANG.
Notes that the President gave the convicted person the warning provided for by article 707-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.”
The above two screenshots (along with the EN translations) clearly explain the judgments handed out to the two culprits of organized financial crime.
Click here to download and view the complete judgement as PDF.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
So, the scam exposers are convicted scammers themselves and very much an active part of the organized gang carrying out scams. If you carefully look at the timeline of how they have structured their organization and websites, it fits in very well.
Nicolas Gaiardo and Thomas Aurlant (aliases Sebastien Borgeaud, Philippe Miller, and Philippe Touya), after their sentencing in 2007, decided to lay low for a few years. While struggling to pay the fines as ordered by the court and inching towards the possibility of going bankrupt, these two criminal scammers came up with a new idea.
The thought of rallying for the cause of those who are the victims of different scams struck a chord with both, as it was the best way to hide their criminal past in plain sight while pretending to fight for the scam victims fleecing more money from them in the form of fees for their useless consulting and legal services.
The new business also offered them the golden chance to extort large sums of money from the various brands and companies by posting cooked-up stories about them and creating false narratives that defame them and damage their market reputation.
All in all, it was a fantastic plan. So Nicolas Gaiardo started registering these companies and websites around the same time and started building them up with the help of his colleague Thomas Aurlant (aliases Sebastien Borgeaud, Philippe Miller, and Philippe Touya).
Again, here is a quick look at the domain/business registration details of each entity in their scandalous organization.
1. Warning-Trading.com – domain registered in 2013.
2. Net and Law – business registered in 2014.
3. BrokerDefense.net – domain registered in 2014.
4. Signal-Arnaques.com – domain registered in 2014.
5. CheckandPay.fr – domain registered in 2019.
Here are the screenshots for proof.
For now, Nicolas Gaiardo and Thomas Aurlant (aliases Sebastien Borgeaud, Philippe Miller, and Philippe Touya) have successfully built themselves a scam that they can run without much scrutiny and interference from the legal authorities.
However, as the complaints against the duo and their fraudulent companies pretending to be journalistic entities that help victims of scams mount up, they will have no place to run but to answer for their crimes in front of the law.
Let us hope that the day these scammers are made answerable for their crimes will come soon. Till then, we all must ensure that the true nature of these scheming people is brought out in front of the unsuspecting people to prevent them from becoming their victims. Share this article with your friends as much as possible and ask them to do the same.
Stay safe from such predators, and keep investing!