Ace Rentals

Ace Rentals (Premium Rentals) Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Ace Rentals Website screenshot:

Ace Rentals, (or is it Premium Rentals? - as can be seen from the above screenshot, they are getting their aliases mixed up, even on their home page which is a sure sign of a fake site), fraud is just one of hundreds of Russian/Ukrainian scams from the same huge criminal operation. The nameserver ns1.dnspnet.biz links these criminals with EU Investment Solutions, EURO Investment Solutions, Euro Invest Germany, Olan Complex Co, and AC Consult Finance, among others. They also have identical aliases of Premium Rentals, Better Rentals and Fine Rentals but they tend to mix the names up on their scam websites so it gets a bit confusing. The bottom line is the usual ILLEGAL spamvertised money mule job under the 'Vacancies' tab which will get your bank account and assets frozen, lose you a lot of money and get you a visit from the police. Don't fall for it!

This fraudster should not be confused with any legitimate company of the same or similar name - the above website graphics and the included money laundering job clearly identify the fake website and these fraudsters.

Ace Rentals : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) Ace Rentals/Premium Rentals claim on their website "Based in Germany and founded in January 2005", but the criminal's domain ace-rent.info was only registered with Enom.com on 12-Jul-2008. Clear evidence of misrepresentation and fraud.

ii) On their 'About Us' page, Ace Rentals claim: "Ace Rentals is a global catalogue of rentals and one of the best marketplaces for accomodation abroad." Ignoring the mis-spelling of accommodation, a Google search for "Ace Rentals" shows lots of other companies with that name, but nothing for these crooks - they have no web presence whatsoever.

iii) Bogus Contact Details:
Corporate Headquarters:
Ace Rentals GmbH
Schwanthalerstraße 21 - 25, 80216 Munich, Germany

A German postcode lookup shows that the details are bogus - the postcode is incorrect for the address and the postcode 80216 is not recognised as a valid German postcode by Google Earth, (the correct postcode is).

iv) Their original nameserver domain dnspnet.biz has been used for numerous other fraud and phishing sites, including Olan Complex Co, EU Investment Solutions and EURO Investment Solutions. It has been registered in the name of 'Viviana Milano', a name which has been used to register other scam domains as a Google search for "Viviano Milano" shows. Clear evidence of fraud.

v) Here is the position of "Real Estate Agent" posted on their website:

Ace Rentals is a prosperous and fast-growing international online company. Currently we offer the possibility of renting and buying real estate quickly and easily in 15 countries. You can familiarize with our activities on this website. We operate through our individual agents on an remote work basis allowing us to extend our agency network all over the world. Taking into consideration the specific character of any international business, this is an mandatory clause for top-quality service. We look forward to expanding our agency network and will be glad to discuss a possible future cooperation with you as a representative of our company.

Responsibilities of our real estate agents include:

• Searching out new property units, putting them into our database through the simple web-interface.
• Interacting with landlords.
• Performing various additional duties in your location as a local representative of our company.

Generally this work doesn’t require any special knowledge. We provide professional training for our representatives and therefore we are ready to deal with beginners. However you must meet the following requirements:

• Strong customer service and communication skills
• Positive attitude to the job
• Customer orientation
• Ability to research and process information
• Ability to target and perform obligations on time
• Ability to stay in touch with our company by your phone or e-mail

This is a remote part-time job and it can provide you a great benefit since such work will not take up a lot of your time.

We offer you a steady job with $ 55,000 per year: the paycheck consisting of your base salary ($ 30000) and 3% of the total rent amount for every property unit you have added and negotiated will be transmitted to you monthly (up to $ 2000 per month in addition to the base salary).

You can apply and send us your resume using the form below. If you satisfy our requirements we will get in touch with you within 5-10 days. Please turn off your e-mail filters while you are waiting for our reply, especially if you use a free email service; we ask you to do so because your filters may mistakenly block our job-related emails.

vi) The pertinent sentence is "Performing various additional duties in your location as a local representative of our company". This is just a thinly disguised window into receiving fake checks ostensibly as 'landlord payments' and forwarding money on to these crooks using Moneygram and Western Union. Try a google search for "Performing various additional duties in your location as a local representative of our company." to see how they heavily spam job websites.

vii) No legitimate company is going to advertise among the untrained and unknown general population overseas for such a position

viii) The Spam

Dear, xxxxxx. This email contains information about Real Estate Agent position and a description of final stage of your job placement. As you know, Ace Rentals is an online company for renting and buying property abroad. Our 25 agents in 15 countries act as the driving force of our company. The company is growing dynamically and its formation is ongoing. At this particular moment we are expanding our business area and increasing the number of property units in our database. For this reason we are widening our network of real estate agents. There are two components of this job: 1). The primary component is selecting appropriate property units for rent and interacting with the landlords. You will monitor the local newspapers, magazines and websites, looking for available property units in your area. You should also find your own sources of information and we hope it will not be difficult to succeed, especially if you have some experience in this area. Then you should get in touch with the owner of the unit you are going to add to our database and ask verbal permission for putting it into our database for further renting to foreign citizens (obviously those who are staying in the country on a legal basis). When the permission is obtained you should enter the unit into the database through our website. We will provide detailed instructions later. After signing a contract of employment you will obtain access to our Agent Web-Panel that allows you to enter a unit into the database without any trouble. Your have to add at least 10 units per month. If your units are being rented, you will receive 3 of the total rent amount (it will be added to your paycheck on top of the stable base salary of $2,500/month). Thus, you should be motivated to find new units and create competitive descriptions for them. Also you should regularly update your own list of units. 2). Secondary responsibilities which you perform from time to time as a local representative of our company may include various telephone calls and handling the clients' payments. We allow our clients to escape a lot of fuss and trouble while sending money abroad. We give them an opportunity to pay the rent by making payments to our representative within the USA. You should accept the payment from the US client and transfer it to the landlord in another country using the most appropriate method. It will not be difficult, because you follow our instructions and use alternative methods of payment which we usually use. For this service you will receive 1 from the total amount of each payment. You just deduct your percentage from each payment. You pay out commissions for the money transfer from the client's money, just deducting them from the sum of the payment. We don't require an active agent license. We send a paycheck which consists of your base salary and your accumulated 3 commission once a month, but you get your 1 at once from each payment you process. We are sure this work will be interesting and simple for you. The greatest advantage of this position is its remote character and the possibility of spending only a few of hours a day working while earning a base $30,000 per year plus your commissions (up to $60,000 per year). If you have any questions, you will be able to discuss them with the staff manager and, certainly, all your responsibilities will become specified in more detail later. You will also find a lot of important information concerning this job in your contract. I. To complete this stage of your job placement you should confirm your information by sending it again via email: First name: Last name: Residence address (for sending a paycheck): City: State: Zip: Phone: Cell phone: E-mail: Best time to call you: Age: II. Contract is attached: Please send completed and signed contract via e-mail or fax it at this number: 866-593-6571. As soon as possible our staff manager will get in touch with you and give you instructions about your work. Please read through the conditions of your contract attentively. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

The above spam clarifies the money mule position, for example: "You should accept the payment from the US client and transfer it to the landlord in another country using the most appropriate method.". It is a clear money mule function and defines the Ace Rentals company as bogus and criminal.

ix) Here is a victim's story. Absolutely irrefutable evidence of fraud.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Ace Rentals website has been set up by money laundering criminal fraudsters purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job. 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 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.

Ace Rentals Fraudsters - current hosting details

Current Main Domains, Hosts and Registrars

Domain

ace-rent.info
rentals-ace.net
rentace.net

Registrar

Enom.com 13-May-2008
Enom.com 25-Sep-2008
ENOM, INC. (Rustelekom)

Host Network

SIAMIDC,Internet Datacenter , Bangkok, Thailand
SIAMIDC,Internet Datacenter , Bangkok, Thailand
Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board

Host IP

202.151.177.35
202.151.177.35
115.126.5.50

Active
Suspended

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

Nameserver Domains and Registrars

dnspnet.biz - Enom Inc - 19-Mar-2008
mynsnet.cn - Bizcn.com - 03-Sep-2008
thns.com.mx - NIC Mexico - 03-Sep-2008

Fresh spam required, full source code please or as an attachment.

DNS Data (ace-rent.info)
How I am searching:

Searching for ace-rent.info A record at g.root-servers.net [192.112.36.4]: Got referral to C0.INFO.AFILIAS-NST.info. (zone: info.)
Searching for ace-rent.info A record at C0.INFO.AFILIAS-NST.info. [199.254.49.1]: Got referral to ns1.mynsnet.biz. (zone: ace-rent.info.)
Searching for ace-rent.info A record at ns1.mynsnet.biz. [202.151.177.85]: Reports ace-rent.info. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
ace-rent.info.	A	IN	14400	202.151.177.35
ace-rent.info.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.dnspnet.biz.
ace-rent.info.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.dnspnet.biz.

Looking up at the 2 ace-rent.info. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.mynsnet.biz [202.151.177.85]	202.151.177.35
ns2.mynsnet.biz [202.151.177.86]	202.151.177.35

The listed host for this criminal's website is SIAMIDC,Internet Datacenter , Bangkok, Thailand on IP address 202.151.177.35 (a host used for others of this criminals websites).

The nameserver domain dnspnet.biz has been used for numerous other fraud and phishing sites, including Olan Complex Co, EU Investment Solutions and EURO Investment Solutions. It has been registered in the name of 'Viviana Milano', a name which has been used for numerous scam domains.

Fraud Blog Initial entry 28th. June 2008

***Latest News*** 2nd. October 2008
The domain ace-rent.info has been suspended and the criminal has the new domain rentals-ace.net, on the same SIAMIDC,Internet Datacenter , Bangkok, Thailand host IP 202.151.177.35 using the following network:
How I am searching:

Searching for rentals-ace.net A record at m.root-servers.net [202.12.27.33]: Got referral to K.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.) [took 210 ms]
Searching for rentals-ace.net A record at K.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.52.178.30]: Got referral to ns1.thns.com.mx. (zone: rentals-ace.net.) [took 131 ms]
Searching for rentals-ace.net A record at ns1.thns.com.mx. [202.151.177.35]: Reports rentals-ace.net. [took 297 ms] Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
rentals-ace.net.	A	IN	14400	202.151.177.35
rentals-ace.net.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.mynsnet.cn.
rentals-ace.net.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.mynsnet.cn.
ns1.mynsnet.cn.	A	IN	14400	202.151.177.35
ns2.mynsnet.cn.	A	IN	14400	202.151.177.36

Looking up at the 2 rentals-ace.net. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns2.thns.com.mx [202.151.177.36]	202.151.177.35
ns1.thns.com.mx [202.151.177.35]	202.151.177.35

The listed host for this criminal's website is SIAMIDC,Internet Datacenter , Bangkok, Thailand on IP address 202.151.177.35 (a host used for others of this criminals websites).

***Latest News*** 11th. November 2008
Information from Frank Bear - domain rentals-ace.net has been disabled. New domain rentace.net is hosted on the following network:

How I am searching:

Searching for RENTACE.NET A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for RENTACE.NET A record at A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to ns2.my-dns.cc. (zone: rentace.net.)
Searching for RENTACE.NET A record at ns2.my-dns.cc. [115.126.5.51]: Reports rentace.net. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
rentace.net.	A	IN	14400	115.126.5.50
rentace.net.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.my-dns.cc.
rentace.net.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.my-dns.cc.
ns1.my-dns.cc.	A	IN	14400	115.126.5.50
ns2.my-dns.cc.	A	IN	14400	115.126.5.51

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

Server	Response
ns1.my-dns.cc [115.126.5.50]	115.126.5.50
ns2.my-dns.cc [115.126.5.51]	115.126.5.50

The host of this criminal fraudster's domain is Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board on IP address 115.126.5.50

***Latest News*** 14th. November
Information from Simon Bear - Domain rentace.net is suspended. Please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.