2Consumer Ltd. Scam

2Consumer Ltd. Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

2Consumer Ltd. home page screenshot: 01-Aug-2009

2Consumer Ltd. is part of a huge Russian money laundering criminal network that has hundreds of aliases going back years, among them being Promo Invest, Transfer Invest Inc., E-Investment Projects, E-Investments Provider Inc., K-Investment Group, EU Investment Solutions, etc etc etc. It's the usual fake website set up deliberately to lure the unwary into the world of money laundering fraud. Most if not all of the website is made up from stolen content - for example, their 'What You Need to Know' page has been stolen from here. The payload of the site is the usual money mule job advertised under the 'Careers' tab. Their domain 2consumer.net was only registered on March the 20th 2009 with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) for the usual 'criminal's domain minimum period of only one year and the contact/location details are demonstrably fake. The bogus site mentions a previous alias - the FastWire fraud which uses an identical website template and content - clear evidence of fraud. The website money mule job is the almost identical job advertised on many other fraud sites, including the Personal Escrow Service scam. I won't list all of this crook's innumerable aliases, but if you want to see a selection of them, click on this Google Search for the phrase taken from their 'About Us' - 'History' page: "by three enthusiasts having financial education".

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) On the 'About Us' page of their website the criminals claim "2Consumer Ltd. is a private equity investment management firm based in Moscow, Russia and formed in 2003", but their domain 2consumer.net was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 20-Mar-2009 for the usual criminal domain minimum period of one year. A clear indication of fraud.

ii) The payload of the site is a clear part-time, work from home, illegal money laundering mule job under the 'Careers' tab, under the title 'Money Transfer Agent':

Money Transfer Agent

United States of America ONLY
AVAILABLE

Location: USA
Status: Opened
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee

2Consumer Ltd. based in Moscow, Russia is looking for energetic and committed individuals to fill the part-time receivables clerk position in the United States. As a receivables clerk, you will be in charge of processing and facilitating investment funds transfers initiated by our US clients under the supervision of the regional manager. A perfect candidate should be a good communicator who is also comfortable with numbers. College education or basic administrative experience is a plus.

No relocation is required from a successful candidate. This opening is a great opportunity for those looking for a reasonable trade-off between income and work load, such as senior citizens or self-employed individuals.

2Consumer Ltd. is a registered investment advisor offering hedge fund research and due diligence and investment trust management to qualified investors and high net worth individuals looking for absolute returns. We focus exclusively on managing multi-manager portfolios of hedge funds.

The position is commission-based, and it will typically take up to 6 hours per week to fulfill your duties. You
should be able to perform your duties during regular business hours. Your core responsibility will be to receive the investment funds from our clients into your designated bank account, reconcile the payments if required and transfer specified funds into our managed investment accounts. You will be in charge of contacting your bank in order to obtain transfer status information, confirmations and account activity reports to be provided to your supervisor, as well as handling daily communications with your bank. You will be receiving a 7% commission from the gross amount of each transfer that is made into your designated account (for instance, if $10,000 is credited into your account, you will be retaining a commission of $700). Your commission is available immediately, so there is no need to wait for the payroll check in the end of the month.

From the tax aspect, you will be paying your income tax, either as an individual or as a business entity,
calculated as a percentage of the commissions received for fulfilling your duties.

You will be receiving the investment funds from our clients via secure electronic Wire transfer or ACH used by major US banks for funds and securities settlement or PayPal. This means that no funds will be deposited into your account unless the transaction is reviewed and confirmed both by the remitting and recipient banks. Thus, there is no operational risk on your end. You will never be required to cash a check or engage in any other financially risky activity.

In order to qualify for the position, you must be a permanent US resident aged 21 and above. It is .recommended that you set up a separate bank account for the receivables service.
However, you may also use an existing account. Since most communication with your supervisor will be via
email/fax/phone, you should have full-time access to these facilities.

Requirements:
Basic skill in managing payments and transfers between our company and clients
Ability to schedule working hours effectively
Availability of spare time (3-4 hours per day)
Advanced user ability to operate computer and to use Internet and e-mail
Legal age.

Payment basis: commissions in the amount of 7% from each transaction (monthly payments of the total earnings).

Benefits:
Flexible work schedule
Possibility to combine the job with primary employment
Part time job
There are NO start up or training fees

To apply for this position please signup our form and on-line contract
Then we will verify your information and contact with you for further information.

iii) You do not get a clearer definition of the illegal part-time, work from home money mule function which on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus and is clear evidence of criminal fraud.

iv) No legitimate company would advertise for private citizens to operate as unlicensed and illegal money transfer agents. To do so clearly defines the firm 2Consumer Ltd. as both criminal and fraudulent. There is also a 'phishing' for identity theft aspect due to the nature of identity proof usually requested, i.e. 'Passport, National ID Card or a Driver's license.' Clear evidence of criminal fraud.

v) The Spam:

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009
From: webmaster@jobrunner.net
Subject: Part-time vacancy of manager

Hello

My name is Alisa Miller. I am a manager of 2Consumer company.
We would like to offer the perspective career to you. We propose a vacancy of the regional agent. The average salary will be about $2000-4500 monthly. You can familiarize with our current vacancy.

REASON : Most customers prefer to pay within their own country and it's much faster than sending an international Money Order. Small companies can't transfer
international transactions. And have restricion to do international transfers. But our personal clients have business in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries, and they can't receive international payments. Your task is receiving and transferring payments to our clients.

You will receive and cash out several types of payments: PayPal payments and Direct Bank Deposit.

1) Your salary is 7% of each payment.
2) You don't need to wait end of month to get paid. You salary share included to each payment.
3) You not spend your own money. All charges to withdrawal or transfer money will be shared at payment.
4) Your financial information will never reach to third parts. It's safe, private and secured type of PayPal payments.
5) You can work 1-3 hours per day or fulltime.

To apply for this position or to make an inquiry, please email us at toconsumer@live.com. Please use
the following vacancy code in the header of your email: 2C. Also, please do not forget to include your contact
information (phone and email) in your message.

2Consumer company
Ukraine, Odessa
2 Kulikovskij per 5
Ukraine Support:
+380 (44) 36-29-367
US Fax: 1-800-622-8610
(TOLL FREE, USA)

Just further confirmation of the clear illegal money mule function - don't be tempted.

vi) A Google search for "2Consumer Ltd." shows that they have no internet presence whatsoever, (apart from their own fake website, of course). There is also other evidence of fraud site listings.

vii) Serial fraudster - the template is that same as for one of the criminal's previous aliases - the FastWire scam. In fact the name 'Fastwire' has not been completely replaced in the text - it still appears on their 'About Us' - 'History' page - clear evidence of serial fraud.

viii) Fake Contact Details from the website:

Our head office:

Odessa
2 Kulikovskij per 5

Ukraine Support:
+380 (44) 36-29-367

US Fax: 1-800-622-8610
(TOLL FREE, USA)

• - A Google search for the address "2 Kulikovskij per 5" returns zero results apart from fraud site listings.
• - A Google search for the telephone number "+380 (44) 36-29-367" shows it as a contact number on a pharmaceuticals website.
• - A Google search for the telephone number "1-800-622-8610" shows it as the contact number for a Christian Store.

All irrefutable evidence of fake details.

The above evidence is clear proof that the 2Consumer Ltd. website is a fraudulent website set up with intent to deceive. If you are an abuse team that has received an abuse report regarding these fraudsters, please consider immediate termination of their services in view of the absolutely undeniable evidence of criminal fraud - please don't delay - these criminals will not respond to any communication from you, (all their whois data is invariably false), but will simply take advantage of any attempt at communication as a delaying tactic to allow them time to carry on their criminal activity and prepare their next network.

Known Website Domains

2consumer.net

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 20-Mar-2009

Active
Suspended/Disabled

DNS Data: (Valid for 2consumer.net)
DNS Lookup: 2consumer.net A record
Searching for 2consumer.net A record at m.root-servers.net [202.12.27.33]: Got referral to E.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for 2consumer.net A record at E.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.12.94.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: 2consumer.net.)
Searching for 2consumer.net A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports 2consumer.net.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
2consumer.net.	A	IN	1200	68.180.151.74
2consumer.net.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
2consumer.net.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
2consumer.net.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
2consumer.net.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 2consumer.net. parent servers:

Server	Response
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	68.180.151.74
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	68.180.151.74

The host of these criminals is Yahoo on the IP addresse of so many of these criminals - 68.180.151.74. Unfortunately, Yahoo currently have a very poor response to abuse reports and are therefore listed as a blackhat provider.

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