25 August 2026

Chapter 1: The First Crack

Rockspace vs “GS AS”

On 17 November 2015, four individuals were named together as defendants in the same case before the Tel Aviv District Court.

The plaintiffs were Rockspace Ltd., an Israeli technology company, and the USAGC Organization Ltd., a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

The defendants were Shefi Goldberg, Gal Birand (Behrend), Amit Shulian, and their recently established company, GS AS International Marketing Ltd.

The proceedings, registered as Case No. 38552-11-15, appeared at first sight to be a conventional commercial dispute. Rockspace and USAGC alleged that the defendants had copied confidential business information, customer databases, commercial know-how, and branding associated with the USAGC immigration consultancy business. Among the remedies sought were injunctions preventing the defendants from soliciting customers, using allegedly copied materials, and continuing to trade under branding that the plaintiffs claimed was intentionally confusing.

One allegation stood out. Rockspace argued that the defendants had begun using the name “USALGC”, which it claimed was deliberately designed to resemble “USAGC.” The application for interim relief asked the court to prohibit the use of the USALGC name, logo, or any confusingly similar commercial identity in websites, advertisements, signs, or other promotional material.

For most observers, this would have been an ordinary dispute between competitors.

For our investigation, however, the case marks something much more significant: the first point at which networks of “immigration consultancies” reported as fraudulent became visible through public records.

The litigation introduced many of the individuals, companies, and brands that would reappear repeatedly over the following decade. Once we completed our investigation of GO-BE Marketing and their connections with Scam Empire we decided to review every litigation case we could find.

USAGC (USA Green Card Services)

Historical Internet archives trace the USAGC brand and the domain usagc[.]org to approximately 2004, making it one of the earliest publicly identifiable websites offering immigration consultancy services under that name. Over time, the website evolved through multiple designs, operators, and jurisdictions, but its core business remained remarkably consistent: immigration consultancy, VISA assistance, and related services.

Unlike many Internet businesses that operate through a single legal entity, the USAGC business appears to have relied on a succession of companies incorporated in different jurisdictions. Despite their claims of being a legal and legitimate business, obscuring its owners seemed something done by design.

We examined public records of every company mentioned in the website and managed to identify companies in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Malta, and later the United States, each associated at different times with the operation or administration of the consultancy business.

The earliest corporate layer identified consists of USAGC Organization Ltd., incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. Historical versions of the USAGC website subsequently referred to Yeke Limited and Cornerblock Ltd., both Cyprus companies, while later versions identified US Immigration Center LLC in White Plains, New York, as the operator.

So who run the USGC for more than two decades?

Rockspace Ltd.

Rockspace Ltd., incorporated in Israel, was the company initiating the litigation case. Public corporate records identify Elad Shmuel Nathanson (אלעד שמואל נתנזון) as director or officer of Rockspace Ltd. Additional companies associated with Nathanson include Rockspace Marketing Limited, Elad Nathanson Management Ltd., Seven Rounds Ventures Ltd., and Loyaltiecom Ltd.

Company registration papers of Rockspace Ltd in Israel includes a shareholder, Rockspace Marketing Limited, a company incorporated in Malta. Historical corporate records, including those published through the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database, identify Costakis Alexandrou as a director or legal representative of Rockspace Marketing Limited. The same records also associate him with Appnext Limited and KPAX Marketing Online Limited. Both companies close connected to Elad Shmuel Nathanson.

We also found that Cyprus corporate records identify Kostas Alexantrou as a director of Yeke Limited, one of the companies that has been historically associated with the USAGC business.

The outcome of this initial company registration review was to successfully link USAGC to its offshore business setups and Rockspace Ltd in Israel.

Mr. Nathanson’s (Natanson) companies operate in sectors of online advertising, affiliate marketing, software, and digital services including online gambling. Such connections can be found the areas of work of his associated companies KPAX Marketing and SkillOnNet.

Our findings provide strong evidence that USGC website is operated by Rockspace Ltd, a company of Elad Shmuel Nathanson who is associated with business in the online advertising, affiliate marketing and online gambling.

After nearly three years of litigation, the Tel Aviv District Court dismissed the remaining commercial claims brought by Rockspace Ltd. and USAGC Organization Ltd. against Shefi Goldberg, Gal Birand (Behrend), Amit Shulian, and GS AS International Marketing Ltd. Earlier in the proceedings, the Court had ruled that the employment and trade-secret claims fell within the jurisdiction of the Regional Labor Court, leaving only the commercial causes of action before the District Court. In its judgment of 23 October 2018, the Court rejected those remaining claims, dissolved the interim injunctions, and ordered Rockspace Ltd. and USAGC Organization Ltd. to pay the defendants’ legal costs, bringing the District Court proceedings to a close.

Chapter 2: Building a Competing Business

GS AS International Ltd.

The Rockspace litigation introduced three individuals that would recur throughout this investigation: Shefi Goldberg, Gal Birand (Behrend), and Amit Shulian.

Unlike the historical USAGC structure, which had evolved over many years through companies incorporated in several jurisdictions, GS AS appears to have been a newly established Israeli company created by three individuals who previously had been involved in the immigration consultancy business. Public corporate records identify Shefi Goldberg, Gal Birand, and Amit Shulian as the principal figures associated with GS AS.

The plaintiffs in the Rockspace litigation alleged that GS AS was not merely another competitor entering the immigration-services market. Rather, they alleged that the company had been built using confidential commercial information, customer databases, operational know-how, and branding originating from the USAGC business. Those allegations formed the basis of the injunction application filed in November 2015.

Among the most prominent allegations was the adoption of the USALGC brand. Rockspace argued that the name was intentionally confusing, differing from USAGC by only a single letter. The plaintiffs sought an order prohibiting the defendants from using the name, associated logos, or any confusingly similar commercial identity in websites, advertising, or promotional material. The litigation also reveals something about the nature of the business itself. The injunction application sought orders requiring the return of customer databases, work procedures, operational documents, accounting records, invoices, payment confirmations, and other business material.

The rise and fall of “GS AS”

Although the public record does not disclose the internal workings of GS AS in detail, later events demonstrate that the partnership did not survive for long. Over the following years, the same individuals who had jointly defended the Rockspace proceedings became opponents in their own litigation. Public court records show that Amit Shulian subsequently commenced proceedings against Shefi Goldberg and Gal Birand in Case No. 17190-03-19, marking the first documented legal dispute within the former partnership.

Additional proceedings followed. In 2019, GS AS became the subject of criminal tax proceedings (Case No. 51092-08-19), while in 2020 the company entered insolvency-related proceedings (Case No. 24750-01-20) involving the principals’ holding companies, including Shefi Goldberg Holdings Ltd., Gal Birand Holdings Ltd., and Amit Shulian Ltd.

The divorce inside GS AS explains the origin of the successor companies that emerged in later years:

• Indigo Immigration Services run by Amit ans Idan Shulian
• GO-BE Marketing run by Shefi Goldberg and Gal Beherend

Chapter 3: The Bromance is over, new actors emerge

Indigo Immigration

By 2019, public records show that the partnership behind GS AS International Marketing Ltd. had effectively come to an end. The company had become embroiled in civil litigation, internal disputes between its principals, tax proceedings and, eventually, insolvency proceedings. Yet the disappearance of GS AS did not mark the end of the business. Instead, the corporate structure evolved into a new generation of companies operating across Israel, Bulgaria, Estonia, South Africa, Cyprus, United States and Spain.

The first company that appears in this phase is Indigo Immigration Services Ltd. (indigoil[.]com), established in Israel by Amit Shulian (29-08-1987) and Idan Shulian. Public records also identify Indigo Strategic Solutions Ltd., another Israeli company associated with the same principals.

PROICC

By the end of 2018, the Professional Immigration Counseling Centre (PROICC) emerged as a significant online immigration consultancy brand targeting immigrants seeking visa for USA and Canada. We downloaded all the archived versions of the website preserved by the Internet Archive and found references to:

• Indigo Ltd. (2018 – 2019)
• Bronza Tech Ltd. (Bulgaria) (2019 – 2021)
• AIS Global Immigration Solutions S.L. (Spain) (2021- )

Despite these corporate transitions, the public-facing website retained substantially the same purpose, offering immigration consultancy services to prospective clients in multiple countries.

This pattern, where the underlying legal entity changes while the customer-facing brand remains stable, is consistent with earlier observations concerning the historical Rockspace’s USAGC business.

We found conclusive evidence that PROICC was run by the Shulian brothers when we found out that Amit and Idan were the owners of the Bulgarian company Bronza Tech Ltd.

Similarly, we found that other website of Indigo myusgc[.]com was operated by the Spanish AIS Global Immigration Solutions S.L., another company run by the Shulian brothers.

In summary, Amiy and Idan Shulian were the owners of the following companies offering immigration services:

• Indigo Immigration Services Ltd (Israel)
• Indigo Strategic Solutions Ltd (Israel)
• Professional Immigration Counseling Centre (PROICC) (Company not found)
• Canada Immigration Ltd) (Company not found)
• Indigo Ltd. (Company not found)
• Bronza Tech Ltd. (Bulgaria) (2019 – 2021)
• AIS Global Immigration Solutions S.L. (Spain) (2021- )

GO-BE Marketing Ltd (Israel)

The second company that emerged after the GS AS International Marketing Ltd. bromance came to an end was GO-BE Marketing Ltd. While Indigo was run by the Shulian brothers (Amit and Idan), Gal and Shefi created GO-BE (GOlberg-BEherend).

Unlike GS AS, GO-BE developed into a considerably larger organization with subsidiaries, holding companies and operational entities distributed across multiple jurisdictions. The most visible brand of their immigration services is the “Immi Net“.

The Immi-Net and Smart Pay

GO-BE established subsidiaries in Estonia, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States and Spain and they expanded their services into payment processing services (Smart Pay, Trigo Pay) for frauds involving several financial investment brands.

In partnership with Maor Yehudai, GO-BE Marketing operated MSG Marketing (Pty) Ltd to channel payments for Gloffix, a fraudulent crypto investment.

In Spain, Ori Beherend brother of Gal Behrend, run GO-BE branch to manage the transactions of the collections received from the parent company in Israel, as well as the establishment of call center services. He also is the head of Znavit Services SL to operate their website: immigrationservicesgroup[.]com.

In the USA, business colleague Gal Goldrat registered several entities in Pensacola (Florida, USA):

• GO BE Holdings LLC
• GO BE Properties LLC
• Immigration Services Consultants LLC

GO-BE also registered several companies in the Australia, UK and Cyprus associated to payment processors and websites selling educational materials that served to collect payments from victims. More details of GO BE network can be found here.

Since the USAGC (Rockspace) structure relied heavily on offshore companies for example in Cyprus, Malta and the British Virgin Islands, GO-BE also developed a geographically diversified corporate network with companies in USA, United Kingdom, South Africa, Estonia, Australia, Israel and Spain.

Chapter 4: Once upon a time in 2001

USAFIS – a notorious brand

The previous chapters documented a cluster of immigration consultancy business that we identified through a chain of litigation cases involving personnel associated with Rockspace, GO AS, Indigo and GO-BE. The four entities have been responsible of very well known brands in this industry such as USGC, USALGC, PROICC, USALWS or the IMMI-NET.

By the end of the investigation, we managed to identify yet another cluster of companies, which was new to us, that have been used to promote brands like USAFIS, notoriously reported for their abusive consultancy services. We could find the first trace of the USAFIS brand already in 2001.

The first companies we found associated to USAFIS and related brands include:

• Memo Global (Doron Levi) (Israel)
• Pronet Online Marketing GmbH (Austria)
• Immigration Solutions SL (Spain)

One of the victims of USAFIS has released a fantastic video (a must see), describing his experience with the brand. Thanks Sebastiano!

FRONET and Memo Global

Ofer Mosberg is an Israeli businessman associated with EDP Group who led the 2012 acquisition of DSNR’s immigration-services operations. The company was later renamed to Memo Global. Official and registry-derived records subsequently connect him to PRONET Online Marketing in Austria, DSNR-controlled payment and immigration-support companies in Spain, and a broad UK group operating under names including Global Worldwide Immigration, Australia Immigration Services, Canadian Visa Experts, CVP Global Services, and Jobs Moving Life. In several UK companies, he is recorded not only as director but as the person exercising majority ownership and control.

In Spain we identified at least three companies associated to Mosberg with DSNR Ltd. as the main shareholder, the companies that were setup in 2013 have been used to handle payments from its parent company in Israel. Some examples of the companies that operate immigration consultancy websites include: becomeacanadian[.]email Immigration Solutions SL (was Kash Col SL), Global EU and North America Consultants SL (was Flashcobro SL), and Post Haste SL.

Mosberg also runs several companies registered in the United Kingdom, for example:

• BFP Global Limited (canadianvisaapp[.]com)
• Global Worldwide Online Marketing limited (usavisaconsultant[.]com)
• Blti Online Services Limited
• CVP Global Services

Memo Global has been reported as fraudulent by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (Canda) and also operates as MEMO Global Danışmanlık A.Ş. in Turkey.

DSNR

DSNR Ltd dsnrmg[.]com was an Israeli e-commerce and direct-marketing company based in Ra’anana. Its core business included online advertising, multilingual call centers, and selling paid assistance for U.S. Diversity Visa “Green Card lottery” applications.

Contemporary reporting in 2007 said DSNR was controlled by Daniel Scalosub and Nino Ransenberg, operated two telemarketing centers in Israel, and offered Green Card lottery application services online. The same report said it was expanding into online gambling.

In October 2012, DSNR’s direct-sales and immigration-services division, employing approximately 500 people, was sold in an all-cash transaction for more than NIS 100 million (20 MEUR). The transaction transferred the Green Card and immigration consultancy business to a consortium led by Ofer Mosberg, while DSNR’s online advertising operations remained with the founders.

Daily Maple News

But the Pronet cluster does not just run dozens of websites promoting immigration services for Australia, Canada and the United States, we even found an “immigration news site” (Daily Maple News) used to lure victims into their own services as PR Canadiense.

One of the posts of the Facebook page of Daily Maple News, received a “Like” from a person called Daniel Schrier (Daniel Basnin), who states in his social media to be the Alternative Payments Project Manager at Memo Global, a partner company of EDP Group. MEMO Global was formerly known as DSNR.

Spain: A a hub for payment processing

During our investigation we identified that three different company groups associated with fraudulent immigration consultancy services: GO-BE Marketing (GOBE), AIS Global Immigration Solutions S.L (Indigo) and Immigration Solutions SL (EDP) choose companies registered in Barcelona (Spain) to process payments from their parent companies in Israel.

Appendix

Immigration Ecosystem

Brands

Brands and Legal entities

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USAFIS Brand – DSNR and Memo Global

Litigation Cases

Disclaimer

This investigation examines a network of companies, brands and individuals that have operated in the immigration consultancy and visa assistance industry over the past two decades. The purpose of this investigation is to document who runs dozens of brands associated to deceptive and highly questionable business practices.

Immigration consultancy is a sector that has repeatedly been identified by consumer-protection authorities, immigration authorities and law-enforcement agencies worldwide as being particularly vulnerable to deceptive marketing, misleading representations, aggressive sales practices and advance-fee fraud. Government agencies in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the European Union and numerous other jurisdictions have published warnings advising consumers to exercise caution when dealing with private immigration consultants and visa-service providers, particularly those promising guaranteed immigration outcomes, employment opportunities or preferential access to government immigration programs.

The companies, brands and individuals discussed in this report publicly present themselves as providers of legitimate immigration consultancy and related services and, where applicable, deny allegations of wrongdoing or having any association to the brands we traced back to each of them.

Throughout this report we identify the companies, brands, directors, shareholders, beneficial owners and other individuals associated with the businesses under examination. We do so intentionally. Corporate structures, frequent changes of legal entities, and the continued use of established commercial brands across multiple jurisdictions can make it difficult for consumers, regulators and researchers to understand who is ultimately responsible for a particular business or service. Presenting these relationships transparently enables readers to follow the evidence and understand how these businesses evolved over time.

The findings presented in this report are based on publicly available sources, including official corporate registries, court records, government publications, historical Internet archives, technical forensic analysis, company filings, regulatory records and other primary-source material. Wherever possible, original source documents are referenced so that readers may independently verify the information presented.

We believe that transparency serves the public interest. By documenting these corporate relationships and publishing the supporting evidence, readers—including customers, former customers, individuals who believe they may have suffered financial loss, journalists, researchers, regulators and law-enforcement authorities—are better placed to make informed decisions, verify the information independently and, where appropriate, exercise their legal rights, seek professional advice, report concerns to the competent authorities or pursue any remedies available under applicable law.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, references to complaints, regulatory actions, consumer warnings, media reports or allegations are presented as matters of public record and are not themselves findings of fact by the authors. Where judicial proceedings are discussed, the report distinguishes between allegations, evidence presented before the courts and the final outcome of those proceedings.

The analysis, opinions and conclusions contained in this report represent the authors’ assessment of the evidence available at the time of publication. Should additional verified information become available, the authors reserve the right to amend, update or correct the report accordingly.

This report has been prepared solely for the purposes of research, journalism and public-interest investigation. The inclusion of any company or individual in this report should not be interpreted, by itself, as a finding of criminal or civil liability.

Right to reply

Before this follow up publication on the deceptive “immigration consultancy and visa assistance industry”, we contacted individuals and companies whose roles or business relationships appear in our investigation and gave them an opportunity to respond. Depending on the recipient, our questions concerned their involvement in companies linked to immigration and relocation services, payment processing, telecommunications and call-centre infrastructure. We also invited recipients to identify factual errors, provide context and submit supporting documentation.

During this second round of mails we received responses from three out of the four groups describes in this investigation: GO-BE Marketing, Indigo Immigration Services and Memo Global (DSNR). The respondents were Gal Behrend, Shefi Goldberg, Amit and Idan Shulian (via Roee Weinberger of Weinberger & Co legal firm) and an unidentified senior representative of Memo Global.

Gal Behrend (GOBE) — 6 July 2026

Gal Behrend rejected the allegations and said all of his business activities had been conducted lawfully. He described the findings presented to him as a collection of unrelated and, in several cases, inaccurate assertions. He said he had never participated directly or indirectly in fraudulent activity and warned that he would pursue legal remedies if false, unsupported or defamatory statements about him were published.

Behrend specifically said he was unaware of any venture called the “Immi Network”, denied establishing or participating in a business by that name, and denied any corporate affiliation between businesses in which he has an interest and Trigo XO Pty Ltd. He also denied involvement with SmartPay or Trigo Pay and said he had never heard of the “Scam Empire” network.

Shefi Goldberg (GOBE) — 5 July 2026

Shefi Goldberg acknowledged that he owns and manages several businesses, but said all of them operate lawfully and denied involvement by himself or his companies in fraudulent or illegal activity. He specifically denied having any ownership, control or other corporate involvement in Trigo XO Pty Ltd.

Goldberg acknowledged that some of his businesses use telecommunications providers, while arguing that an ordinary customer-provider relationship does not imply wrongdoing. He said he had never heard of an “Immi Network” and did not know what the “Scam Empire” referred to. He did not provide specific answers concerning several other entities raised in the right to reply, including Golden VoIP and all payment providers, and warned that he would pursue legal action over false or misleading reporting.

Idan and Amit Shulian (Indigo) — 24 July 2026.

Amit Shulian responded through his lawyer, Roee Weinberger of Weinberger & Co. that confirmed his involvement in GS AS International Marketing Ltd and that he was a respondent in Case 38552-11-15. The legal firm stressed that the application for a temporary injunction was dismissed and that costs were awarded in their favor.

It was also confirmed that the company was wound up around the time of the litigation, after which the shared commercial relationship between Shulian and the other individuals associated with the company ended (without explicitly mentioning former business partners Shefi Goldberg and Gal Behrend). He maintains that he has had no business relationship with those individuals since then. Shulian categorically denies ever having ownership, control or involvement in PROICC or GO-BE Marketing. Shulian further states that he has always conducted his business affairs lawfully, has never participated in fraudulent, deceptive or otherwise unlawful activity, and has never been investigated in connection with such conduct.

To our surprise all mails that we received that we addressed to Amit and Idan Shulian were signed by Masha Manilovich (Office Manager of Indigo).

MEMO Global / DSNR (USAFIS) — 20 July 2026

MEMO Global rejected allegations that its operation was fraudulent or predatory and said it has operated for more than 25 years with established customer-service and quality-assurance procedures. At the same time, the company confirmed that the brands we identified in our request were owned and operated by MEMO Global, while stating that DSNR had ceased to exist around 13 years earlier. In their response they said Ofer Mosberg was no longer a director or manager of the company. The company also confirmed that Daily Maple News was used as a marketing platform, describing it as a blog publishing positive news about Canada. While in their first response they stated that EDP Group was not affiliated with MEMO Global, subsequently clarified that EDP Group had previously provided IT services to MEMO Global.

Regarding its business model, MEMO Global confirmed that USAFIS charged customers for assistance with the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery even though entering the official government lottery was free. It acknowledged that its sales representatives were “assertive and persuasive,” but said misleading customers was prohibited, calls were monitored by its quality-assurance department, and dissatisfied customers could receive discounts, additional services or refunds.

The company also confirmed offering customers additional products and services, including multi-year participation, immigration assistance, job-search platforms and English-language courses, but denied that customers were forced to purchase them or charged extra to obtain their official lottery confirmation numbers.