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Scam Alert And How Victims Are Being Targeted
Cybertrace is issuing a warning alert for the scam websites advswiss.com and finproxy.ai. These fake consultants are looking to take everything you have! If you have or are in contact with these entities, please reach out to our team. We can recommend the next steps to take.
ADV Swiss, The Obvious Red Flags And The Contradicting Claims
At a glance, the advswiss.com website looks professional and organised. It lists a phone number, email address and physical address all to give the impression that it is a legitimate and trustworthy company.
The ‘About’ section states that the company is an ‘International audit insurance, investment and financial consultancy company’ which helps people in Switzerland and internationally. The company also claims that they aim to build ‘life-long relationships with our customers’, but the reality is, they are a fraudulent entity stealing money from hard-working Australians.
A look at the website’s ‘testimonials’ section exposes their deception, specifically this review from ‘Lars’.
Our investigators confirmed that the website only became active on 8 April 2024. How can ‘Lars’ say he’s been working with the company for three years when they weren’t even online at that point? This proves that these claims are false.
They also claim to have a ‘97% Cases Win Rate’
What exactly can they ‘win’ when they are supposedly helping with tax and insurance?
The website has provided a ‘Contact’ page. However, you are unable to put in your email address. Instead, it only asks for your phone number, which encourages direct calls.This approach enables the scammers to speak with you personally, build rapport and gradually gain your trust.
The website provides links to their supposed Social Media accounts but clicking them does not redirect you to Facebook or Instagram, you stay on the same page. Most legitimate companies have social media pages that customers can view.
Analysis Of Registration And Legitimacy
The website lists a Swiss Registration number of CHE-161.173.274. Our investigators conducted a search and confirmed the name of ADV Swiss AG has this company registration number. However, it appears this company has been registered for quite some years, and we cannot be sure if it has anything to do with the scam website. It is not uncommon for scammers to claim they are associated with a registered company, but in fact have no real association.
Offenders can also impersonate legitimate businesses to operate and use falsified or stolen credentials to conduct fraud.
Other Identical Websites Linked To This Operation
Our investigators identified a variety of websites almost identical to the advswiss.com. The following website was created on 5 October 2023 and is almost identical to the advswiss.com website: safeswiss.co.
They even have the exact same review from ‘Lars’ which states that he has been working with the company for three years!
An even deeper look into advswiss.com and the red flags become even more apparent. When you click on ‘Retirement Planning’ under the heading ‘Pension & Tax’’ this message is shown.
It sounds promising doesn’t it? The catch, however, is that it’s likely been stolen from this website.
https://auditech-ch.co/pension.html
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Our investigators identified that auditech-ch.co was created on 18 August 2022, which means the advswiss fraudsters copied it from this website. It is unknown whether the site is operated by the same scammers as advswiss.com.
Further investigations identified a similar website that claims to offer the same services as the advswiss.com website.
https://audiba.co/en
The website claims to offer ‘international audit insurance, investment & financial consultancy’ just like the fraudsters at advswiss.com.
A mobile phone number of +41 52 508 32 23 was identified on the website.
A quick open source search confirms that the phone number was previously linked to a ‘Max Haller’ and a very unhappy customer had a lot to say about Max.
It appears that ‘Max’ was previously linked to agm-swiss.ch. Our searches confirm that the website is inactive and was first identified to be live on 1 February 2020.
This means that this operation has been active for years, and that the offenders changed brand names and domains to avoid detection.
Our investigators identified an additional website created on 10 June 2025 that is almost identical to advswiss.com.
https://abhswiss.com
The layout and design of the website appear to be quite similar. Even the way their services are listed is the same.
Both websites list the phone number of +41 31 528 21 55, which likely indicates that they are operated by the same scammers. Scammers tend to operate several platforms and change names frequently to avoid detection.
A Real Client’s Experience With This Scam Network
Our client contacted advswiss.com with the hopes of recovering money lost to a previous scam. The client formed a relationship with the scammers and trust was built between them. They would ask about his family and show a genuine interest in his life. This is a common tactic scammers use to build trust with victims. The scammers promised our client that his funds would be returned but needed him to open a wallet with finproxy.ai to ‘receive’ them.
The client opened the wallet and was asked to pay made up fees to receive his money. The Client paid the fees and asked for his money back, and as you may have guessed the scammers asked for more!
Our investigators identified a Crypto Legal webpage listing finproxy.ai as a scam.
https://www.cryptolegal.uk/list-of-reported-scam-companies
If finproxy.ai is a scam, then advswiss.com is definitely one too!
Further investigations identified the following website which appears to be identical to finproxy.ai.
https://www.monopay.ai
The moonpay.ai website was created on 29 July 2025 about a year after finproxy.ai which was created 18 June 2024. As moonpay.ai was created after and is exactly the same. We have strong reason to believe that both websites are operated by the same scammers.
Our client was supposedly in contact with Christopher Soder who claimed to work for the company. The following profile image was identified in his email signature.
Further investigations identified that the image is a 95% match on an AI database. Which means the image has been edited. Additional searches identified a slightly edited but similar photo used for Charles Teel, the Marketing Manager for, emevera.com.
What Can I Do If I’ve Already Been Scammed?
The first step in this process is to ensure you keep records of everything. Specifically your transaction records and any correspondence you have between you and the offenders. Make sure you make note of their phone numbers, email addresses and any other contact details they provide you.
The second step is to report it to your local police, if they cannot be of assistance, get in touch with Cybertrace to speak with a professional to discuss investigation and recovery options.
There are several ways we can take offenders on, and this can be done either through Cryptocurrency Tracing or through a Forensic Website Investigation.
Cybertrace was the first company in Australia to provide cryptocurrency tracing to the public. The purpose of cryptocurrency tracing is to see where your funds have ended up and where they have been cashed out at an exchange. Most exchanges have Know Your Customer (KYC) Policies in place where your ID documents have to be uploaded in order to open an account. Police can request for these records from the exchange.
Our Forensic Website investigations essentially pull the website apart and look at DNS hosting records, domain records as well as any companies or businesses linked to the website to try and identify offenders. We are experts in this field and have successfully helped many clients around the world.
Beware if you are searching the world wide web for recovery agents, the majority on Google are asset recovery scammers who promise a quick and easy return of your funds. In a perfect world, it would be that easy but unfortunately, there is nothing simple about international fraud and recovery can take time and resources.
Feel free to tell us your story in the comments section below if you have been the victim of advswiss.com, finproxy.ai of any of their associated websites.
