ACCA

ACCA Fraud

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ACCA Screenshot - 30-Oct-2008

This fraudster bears no relation to any other company of the same or similar name and should not be confused. The above website graphics and the money laundering job below are intended to identify this fraudster alone.

ACCA is a fairly standard fake financial website that has been set up by criminals to lend an air of legitimacy to a clear money laundering mule position that appears under the 'Careers' menu options. It is classifed as a 'Transfer Manager' position and is described as a part-time, work from home position consisting of accepting checks into a private account, subtracting a 5% commission and transferring the balance to these criminals by Western Union which is the clear ILLEGAL money mule function that will get your account closed, your assets frozen and could result in a criminal charge of fraud. Don't be tempted. The company claims to have been founded in 1997 in the above home page screenshot, but their website domain was only registered in December 2007. This fraud is an identical fraud to the Ameca fraud. These criminals appear to have a new alias of ABCA but do not appear to have a working website unless anybody knows differently... (Let me know if you do....).

ACCA : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) The 'Transfer Manager' job from the website:

Thank you for expressing an interest in a career with us. Currently our company are looking for Transfer Manager candidates Worldwide. If you browse our website http://www.a-cca.com/index.php?page=careers you will see the detailed requirements and qualifications that are relevant to this position.

Why Transfer Managers?
Our company boasts a unique money-transfer scheme for our customers worldwide. The extended network of Transfer Managers can facilitate a money transfer to anywhere in the globe and payments can be made into any existing e-currency account within several minutes. We believe that this facility far exceeds what our competitors can provide and gives us an opportunity to deliver cash to any place instructed by the customer. It also enables us to advise our clients on various matters and a lot more besides.

In addition to individual transfer managers' services, we offer assistance from agencies (legal representative offices) in the major business centres of the world. New agencies emerge because of the demand for our services, where the role of our Transfer Managers is decisive. As a rule, the most successful manager further develops his career as the head of the agency.

What You Get
Aside from a competitive salary and flexible working schedule you get a fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge of finance and e-commerce issues. You choose yourself whether you work full-time with us or share your efforts by continuing with your principle occupation.

What You Have to Do
The Transfer Manager job is rather simple and will not cause you any problems even if you are unfamiliar with the banking system. Your job will be to receive payments from our customers via your bank account and to transfer the money to one of our agencies.

Important:

    * We will never ask you to give us access to your personal bank account (e.g. PIN or Password);
    * We need personal information for verification purposes only;
    * Sort code and account number can be used only for sending money into your bank account;
    * If you decide to open a new Business bank account for this job, please fill the form only when you get a new account details;
    * You will be classified as self-employed;
    * There are no any startup fees to pay;
    * The candidate lives and works in their own geographical area and can work from home, therefore no relocation is necessary;
    * This job cannot be done online, you need physically withdraw/send money from nearest branches;
    * All money transfer fees and charges including Western Union fee are covered and paid by our company.

As a Transfer Manager you must be ready to:

    * Receive money transfers to your bank account;
    * Process payments according to the operator's instructions;
    * Report to the operator about the work done.

Every processed payment will bring you 6% commission of the transfer amount. For example, if you receive £2,000 to your bank account, you will withdraw the money and keep £120 for yourself. After you receive the money, you will withdraw the cash and send this sum to our agency by following the instructions enclosed (normally we use the Western Union money transfer system). All fees pertaining to cash withdrawal and further transfers will be deducted from the amount that has been credited to your bank account, the Western Union charges are also deducted from our 94%.

Every money transfer is supported by detailed instructions, leaving no possibility of any mistakes, including TRIAL transfer.

If you are interested in this job you have to do the following:

   1. Register in the 'Task Manager' system on our site at https://www.a-manager.com/registration.php. After the registration you will be put on the waiting list for activation. Please fill in the registration form on the site very carefully!
   2. Read the Task Manager user's manual thoroughly. It can be found at https://www.a-manager.com/manual.html
   3. Download the application form at http://www.a-cca.com/inc/application.pdf (zipped http://www.a-cca.com/inc/application.zip)
   4. Fill it in and send it by fax to +41 1 355-3158, +44 800 471-5243 (UK Toll-Free), +1 866 338-8032 (US Toll-Free) or email a scanned copy to hr@a-cca.net
   5. After that we will activate your account on the site and you will be able to start the job.

Please also read our Transfer Managers FAQs: http://www.a-cca.com/index.php?page=tmfaq
You can find some tips in our feedback section: http://www.a-cca.com/index.php?page=feedback

Please feel free to ask any questions. Our e-mail address: hr@a-cca.net

ii) There can be no debate over that - it is the clear ILLEGAL money mule function that will get your account closed, your assets frozen and could result in a criminal charge of fraud. Don't be tempted. No legitimate company is going to spamvertise among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population for a "TRANSFER MANAGER" acting as a spare time, work from home criminal money transfer agent accepting funds into a private account and transferring a balance out via Western Union. Such a proposition defines the company beyond doubt as criminal and fraudulent.

iii) ACCA claim on their website above: "ACCA was founded in the beginning of 1999", but the criminal's domain a-cca.com was only registered with YESNIC CO. LTD. on 20-Dec-2007 - a clear indication of fraud.

iv) If they had have been around since 1997 they would have an internet presence, especially considering this claim from their 'About Us' page: "As quoted by Expert Magazine, in 2003 Acca Company was ranked among the top 10 companies in Switzerland under the nominations of 'Marketing and Public Relations Consulting' and 'Estimation Services' ". As it is, a Google search for "ACCA" (include quotes), shows no web presence at all for these crooks, but plenty of accountancy related hits - nothing to do with these crooks, though.

v) The fake location details from the website:

Postal address:

Winterthurerstr 1
CH-8045 Zurich, Switzerland

Phones and fax no's:

Phone: +41 (44) 586-3089
Fax 1: +41 1 355-3158
Fax 2: +44 800 471-5243 (UK Toll-Free) or +1 866 338-8032 (US Toll-Free)

• - A Google for "+41 1 355-3158" shows that the number was used in 2006 by the Atecco money laundering fraudster
• - A Swiss postcode check shows that there is no such address as Winterthurerstr 1 CH-8045 so it is not surprising that a Google search for "Winterthurerstr 1 CH-8045" returns zero hits. Google maps shows that CH-8045 is in fact on the other side of Zurich to Winterthurerstrasse and Google also shows that the correct postcode for Winterthurerstrasse in Zurich is in fact CH-8057. The evidence proves their address is fake.

vi) Sample Spams

Hello,
Please visit our website: a-cca dot com
and browse Careers - TM Open sections, regarding Transfer Manager position.

Best regards,
Kathrin Ott
Acca HR Department

Hello,
Please visit this page: http://www.a-cca.com/tmopen
You need to do all steps written there to start working with us.

Best regards,
Ariane Keller
Acca HR Department

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the ACCA website has been set up by money laundering fraudsters purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering job. If you are a registrar or a host abuse team that has received an abuse report regarding these fraudster's domains or hosting, 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 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.

ACCA Fraudsters - hosting details

Main Domains, Registrars and Hosts

Domain

a-cca.com
a-cca.net

Registrar

YESNIC CO. LTD. (20-Dec-2007)
YESNIC CO. LTD. (20-Dec-2007)

Host Network

P2P-Moscow-NET (Golden Telecom)
P2P-Moscow-NET (Golden Telecom)

Host IP

81.211.28.114
81.211.28.114

Suspended
Active
Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.

DNS Data (Valid for a-cca.net)

How I am searching:

Searching for a-cca.net A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for a-cca.net A record at C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to ns3.a-cca.net. (zone: a-cca.net.)
Searching for a-cca.net A record at ns3.a-cca.net. [203.131.132.173]: Reports a-cca.net. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
a-cca.net.	A	IN	3600	81.211.28.114
a-cca.net.	NS	IN	3600	ns2.a-cca.net.
a-cca.net.	NS	IN	3600	ns3.a-cca.net.
a-cca.net.	NS	IN	3600	ns4.a-cca.net.
a-cca.net.	NS	IN	3600	ns1.a-cca.net.
ns2.a-cca.net.	A	IN	3600	205.234.108.76
ns3.a-cca.net.	A	IN	3600	203.131.132.173
ns4.a-cca.net.	A	IN	3600	212.111.194.4
ns1.a-cca.net.	A	IN	3600	81.176.76.11

Looking up at the 4 a-cca.net. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns2.a-cca.net [205.234.108.76]	81.211.28.114
ns1.a-cca.net [81.176.76.11]	81.211.28.114
ns4.a-cca.net [212.111.194.4]	81.211.28.114
ns3.a-cca.net [203.131.132.173]	81.211.28.114

The host for this criminal is listed as P2P-Moscow-NET on IP address 81.211.28.114 This is the same IP that was used by the identical Ameca fraudster

Fraud Blog Initial entry 30th. October 2008

***Latest News*** 11th. November 2008

New domain notified by site contact - a-cca.net hosted on the above network by P2P-Moscow-NET on IP address 81.211.28.114

***Latest News*** 12th. November 2008
Domain a-cca.net deactivated and locked by the registrar.

These criminals appear to have a new alias of ABCA but I do not know of a working ABCA website - if you know of a working website for either ACCA or ABCA, please let me know.