ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC scam

ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot below and the following fraud evidence refer to this company alone and no other. This fake company's name "Advertising Agency LLC" is highly generic and will undoubtedly apply to thousands of other companies.

ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC screenshot 06-Oct-2009

ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC is just one of the numerous fake Russian scam sites that exist solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. They have a new template, but the fake certificates betray this scam as the same scam as the previous Vidal Architects, Inc, Design Resources, Inc, Design Build Studio, Inc, Design 2 Studio LLC., First Design Group, Design to Perform, DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C, N Design Studio, Inc, Euro-Design Corp, The Design Studio, LLC (The Desugn Studio, LLC), DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc. and the International Design Center, LLC frauds among others. They claim in the above "Advertising agency "ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC" has been working for 10 years already", but their domain theadvertising-agency.com was only registered with the usual unresponsive registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 22-sep-2009 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year and their website contains a clear money mule solicitation of 'Customer Manager' under the added Careers tab. It is clear from even a cursory Google check that they have absolutely no genuine web presence whatsoever in their own right. (Not to be confused with innumerable other companies containing the same generic name "Advertising Agency"). This scam is an identical straight follow on scam to the Advertising Enterprises, LLC fraud with different fake staff names.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC criminal's post the claim "Advertising agency "ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC" has been working for 10 years already" in their above screenshot, however, the fact that their initial domain theadvertising-agency.com was only registered with the unresponsive MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 22-Sep-2009 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) These fake certificates are exactly the same as posted by this fraudster's previous aliases as listed above.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business for ten years, (as evidenced above), "ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC" have no genuine Google internet presence at all, (ignoring their own fake website, of course - if you can find it amongst the 'fog factor' of the generic "Advertising Agency" fake name).

iv) The payload of the fake website is the following clear money mule criminal solicitation of 'Customer Manager' under the Careers tab:

U.S. Customer Manager Position

Job Summary:

Type of Employment: Agreement
Job Type: Part Time (2-4 hours per week)
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Salary: $60,000-$80,000.00 /year
Location: Any ( at home on free time)
This could be the perfect complement to your current job.

About Company:

Our company is the global business company which is a recognized leader with deep industry, business, and technology experience. We appeared not so long ago on business market but we already have a notable and big clientele all over the world.

Why do we need Customer Manager?

We need you as a Customer Manager to control the payment of our customers from your state, made with the help of cheques ONLY. The required skills of yours are team work, basic knowledge of MS Office, accuracy. Your general duty is to accept cheques from our clients and partners. For that you should give the correct address where those cheques will be received by you as an official representative of our company. You should cash these checks and send payment to our manager.

Compensation:
Concerning you salary, it depends on the work you do - from $3,000 to $5,000 a month. Your income will be 5% of cashing checks. For example: You cashed several checks totaling $50,000, which means your income will be $2500.

Type of Employment:

Agreement

Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week

You can combine this job with your current job, because you'll spend no more than 3 hours per week. This job can become perfect addition to your current job.

v) You do not get a much clearer definition of the illegal 'part time' money mule function of receiving stolen funds to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals via Western Union or Moneygram which on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus and is clear evidence of criminal fraud.

vi) No legitimate company is going to advertise for this sort of illegal part time, 'work from home' money transfer position among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population overseas. The additional 'business proposal' shows the potential sheer scale of this criminal fraud operation - don't be part of it or you will lose a lot of money and perhaps your liberty.

vii) Note the fake 'Staff' in the screenshot above - they all appeared under different aliases in the fraudster's previous scam, Advertising Enterprises, LLC. Releev Andrey Leotevich was Troy Yuriy Semenovich (the alleged 'Director'), Joanne Rossi was Sarah Bilardo, (the spammer) and Anton Turov was Pavel Troy. Clear evidence of fraud.

viii) The Spam:

Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:41:41
Reply-To: "Joanne Rossi, HR department" <manager@theadvertising-agency.com>
From: "Joanne Rossi, HR department" <manager@theadvertising-agency.com>
Subject: Tour Manager post: xxxxxx

For xxxxxxx
My name is Joanne Rossi. I am staff manager of our Staff Department. We reviewed your information on Hotjobs , Our department beleive that you are good candidate for the vacancy of US Customer manager of our Advertising Company

-Job Matter: processing payments from our clients.
-Working schedule: Part-time(2-5 hours per week)

Job conditions:

- sick leave;
- Training & Seminars
- Salary is 3000 dollars monthly

This will be the good complement to your during jo.b.

FYI: No investing from our applicants. This is not sales position.
Employees not required buy anything to start.

theadvertising-agency. com

If u're interested, write me immediately.
Sincerely
Joanne Rossi

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job of receiving 'customer's payments' to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals. 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 serial criminal activity - 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.

Known Website Domains

theadvertising-agency.com

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 22-sep-2009

Host

Yahoo on IP address 98.136.92.79

Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Domain Whois Data

Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 22-sep-2009   Updated 22-sep-2009 Expires 22-sep-2010
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM YNS2.YAHOO.COM

Domain Name.......... theadvertising-agency.com
Creation Date........ 2009-09-22
Registration Date.... 2009-09-22
Expiry Date.......... 2010-09-22
Organisation Name.... Brian Prince
Organisation Address. 9488 oak
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Loveland
Organisation Address. 45140
Organisation Address. OH
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Brian Prince
Admin Address........ 9488 oak
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Loveland
Admin Address........ 45140
Admin Address........ OH
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... brian.prince25@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.5137740490
Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94089
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
Tech Email........... domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
Tech Phone........... +1.4089162124
Tech Fax.............
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com

Network Data (Valid for domains theadvertising-agency.com

DNS Lookup: theadvertising-agency.com A record
Searching for theadvertising-agency.com A record at c.root-servers.net [192.33.4.12]: Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for theadvertising-agency.com A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: theadvertising-agency.com.)
Searching for theadvertising-agency.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports theadvertising-agency.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
theadvertising-agency.com.	A	IN	1200	98.136.92.79
theadvertising-agency.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
theadvertising-agency.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
theadvertising-agency.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
theadvertising-agency.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 theadvertising-agency.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	98.136.92.79
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	98.136.92.79

The criminal's host is listed as Yahoo on IP address 98.136.92.79 - the same IP as used for his previous aliases - DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc.
and International Design Center, LLC and their identical previous alias, Advertising Enterprises, LLC.

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