Cactil secures MyChargeBack non-prosecution agreement
Recovery scammers MyChargeBack have secured a non-prosecution agreement from the DOJ.
As a result of the agreement, details of which have not been made public, the DOJ has agreed to return MyChargeBack’s website domain to parent company Cactil LLC.
Cactil LLC is a recovery scam factory run by Aaron Lazor, an Israeli national based out of Tel Aviv.
The DOJ seized MyChargeBack’s website domain in June 2024, as part of an ongoing investigation into “criminal acts” tied to “cryptocurrency return fraud scheme[s]”.
This prompted a legal petition from Cactil, requesting return of the MyChargeBack domain.
In August 2024 response to Cactil’s petition, the DOJ stated it had “established probable cause to believe that the [MyChargeBack] website has been involved in violations of federal law”.
The DOJ asserted that returning the MyChargeBack domain to Cactil, would result in it being used to “commit additional criminal acts”.
In September 2024 the FBI formally confirmed seizure of the MyChargeBack domain, as part of a wider enforcement action against recovery scammers.
Special Agents with the FBI San Diego Field Office have seized websites belonging to three cryptocurrency recovery services.
The seizures come as the FBI continues to crack down on an emerging scam tactic aimed at further defrauding cryptocurrency scam victims.
The web domains were from the following cryptocurrency recovery services: MyChargeBack, Payback LTD, and Claim Justice.
These companies claim to provide cryptocurrency tracing and promise the ability to recover lost funds. Representatives of these companies often advertise strong success in recovering victim funds but have no track record in doing so.
They often charge significant upfront fees and ask for a commission should funds be recovered.
These companies use extensive social media advertising, including false reviews, to convince victims of the legitimacy of their services.
Cactil’s social media advertising was fronted by Elijah Jackson, MyChargeBack’s Digital Marketing Manager.
In addition to MyChargeBack, Cactil ran ChargeReturns, ChargebackMyMoney, RapidCoinRecovery and GetMyPayBack – all of which Cactil has since disabled the domains of.
It appears holding Cactil and Lazor accountable for defrauding crypto scam victims is no longer a DOJ concern. Instead, focus has shifted to protecting perpetrators of the alleged fraud.
In late July Cactil filed a motion seeking to file documents under seal;
Petitioner Cactil, LLC d/b/a MyChargeBack.com (“Cactil”) hereby applies for an order allowing it to file the Non-Prosecution Agreement and Agreement to Return Seized Domain Mychargeback.Com between Cactil and the government (the “Settlement
Agreement”) as an exhibit to Cactil’s forthcoming unopposed motion to dismiss its petition.The Settlement Agreement contains confidential information, including, inter alia, the identity of individuals who had been named by the government as within the scope of its investigation.
Cactil thus seeks authorization to file the Settlement Agreement under seal. The government does not object to this application.
Why the identities of the Cactil perpetrators is “confidential information” is unclear.
The motion was granted on July 28th, prompting Cactil to file a Motion to Dismiss its own case on July 31st.
Pursuant to a Non-Prosecution Agreement and Agreement to Return Seized Domain Mychargeback.com between Cactil and the government, a copy of which is attached to this Motion Dismiss, but filed under seal, Cactil seeks to dismiss the Petition.
Cactil filed the non-prosecution agreement under seal on August 1st.
The court approved the motion and dismissed Cactil’s case on August 5th.
At time of publication MyChargeBack’s website domain still returns a DOJ/FBI seizure notice. Also still online is the FBI’s appeal for victims to contact them if they’ve been scammed by MyChargeBack and other “recovery scheme fraudsters”.
It’s assumed any new and existing MyChargeBack complaints filed by consumers will now be forwarded to the nearest FBI office shredder.
Neither the FBI or DOJ have issued any official statement since the Cactil non-prosecution agreement was reached.
It’s unclear whether Cactil and Lazor, potentially now with the DOJ’s blessing, will continue to defraud consumers through recovery scams.
Reminder BehindMLM picked up this non-MLM story because recovery scammers targeting MLM fraud victims are rampant.
BehindMLM itself was getting 10-20 recovery scam comments a day up until earlier this year. It took a while for the spam filter to learn but it catches all of them now.
Still, these fuckers are everywhere and going after Cactil was then hoped to be the start of law enforcement targeting recovery scammers.
Instead we’ve gotten secret non-prosecution agreements, quietly closed investigations and victims given the middle finger. “Crime is legal” strikes again.
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The problem is that even when victims were specifically told that these were not lawyers and that no reputable firm could make promsies of returns, the victims persisted in hiring the Israeli misery firm.
That’s a problem but not *the* problem when it comes to recovery scammers. These fucks double-scam victims of fraud by inflicting new fraud onto them.
In the same way we point and laugh at people who fall for dumb scams but still hold the scammers who scammed them accountable, the same goes for recovery scammers.
Please be wary of all “scam awareness” platforms asking for victims to report information.
Scamadviser.com has fed victim information to Payback LTD
Scamwatcher.org has fed victim information to MyChargeBack
Scam-detector.com has fed victim information to CyberClaims
Whether these relationships still exist I do not know, but “dummy lists” as they are called are quite a valuable commodity.
Recovery scamming has sprung up as a whole shadow industry. Go on any social media platform and you’re more likely to run into recovery scammers than actual scams first (putting aside recovery scamming is a scam in and of itself).