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This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this fake company alone and no other. The website has been stolen from a genuine Russian company. These criminals have stolen the identity of a Florida based company of the same name which was incorporated in 2006.
ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 16-Mar-2010
ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 16-Mar-2010

ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC (Stolen Identity) is just the latest of the numerous fake Russian serial 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 and the complete content of their fraud website has now quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company and modified to suit this criminal's purposes, in particular the addition of a 'Careers' menu option that doesn't exist on the genuine website and leads to the criminal's money mule job. The fake website was only recently set up, (for instance, the domain alphadesignservices.net was only registered with the registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-Mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year) and contains a clear money mule solicitation of U.S. Representative/Financial manager under the Careers tab. Their other previous, (identical job), fraud aliases are/were 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., International Design Center, LLC, HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC., Design & Promotions Corporation, The Design Agency, LLC, Design Products Inc., DESIGN +, INC., DESIGN ACCENTS, INC., International Design Source, Inc, Design For You llc, Design Engineering, INC, DESIGN FORCE, LLC, DESIGN FACTORY INC., DesignNext, Advanced Design Services, Inc,  DESIGN EXTENSIONS, LLC, Design Group 7 Inc, VERO DESIGN, INC., DOROSINSKI, CAMPBELL DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC., L&D INTERIOR DESIGN, INC., Aqualine Design, Inc., The Debra Toney Companies, Design Radiance, LLC., Design Gold Group, Inc., Design 2 Fit, LLC and Modern Design & Development, LLC (all stolen identity) frauds among others. This is clearly a serial fraudster which is clear evidence of fraud in itself. As per their usual MO, these criminals have stolen the identity of this Florida based company who were incorporated in June 2006.
Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC (Stolen Identity) criminal's website has quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company, so any claims made in it are not relevant to the criminals, although they do carry the claim "Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world" under this 'Careers' menu option, (text below). However, the fact that their domain alphadesignservices.net was only registered with the unresponsive MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-Mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud has a new stolen template from this company, but it is simply an identical follow-on money-mule fraud to all their other identical aliases as listed above.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, (as evidenced below), this fake "ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC" have no genuine Google internet presence at all in their own right, (ignoring their own fake multiple websites, of course - you'd expect to find them). Not to be confused with any presence for the real company - Irrefutable evidence of fraud.

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

U.S. Representative/Financial Manager Job 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 primarily deals in design activities for corporate and residential ground plans. Our business unit is experienced in both creation and implementation of plans conceived.

    * Accommodations
    * Premises design

Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world. Although we are currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the arms of our innovation have reached the four corners of the planet. We maintain a direct and diligent marketing process in the United States, and repeatedly offer services that are ahead of the industry “curve” in both pricing and quality. Our advantages lay in certain benefits our Europen clientele experience that only an overseas company can provide:

   1. We are able to offer similar products for lower than standard pricing; we are able to cheaply staff our Moscow office
   2. Our Home Office is staffed with industry experts with over 8 decades of combined experience

Why do we need U.S. Representative/Financial manager?

When we initially started operations in the United States, we experienced some issues with US trade laws that can be summarized into two different problems:

   1. All financial services operations have to take place inside the USA
   2. Customers cannot make payments to a company don’t have offices inside the US, even if the company is an industry leader around the world. Our Home Office is located in Russia, which is why customers are not able to directly transfer money (payments for our designs) to our office in Russia. Under US law, the funds must be deposited into the account of the Financial Manager of Staffing Solutions that resides in the USA. Then, it is the Financial Manager’s responsibility to transfer the funds to our business in Russia. The company has to be registered in the US tax administration, which we have already finished. By maintaining a Financial Manager in the US, we are able to solve both of these problems and continue to help the companies that need us in the USA.

Main duties include receiving payments from customers:

   1. Bank checks
   2. Wire transfers
   3. Certified funds

Compensation:

The Financial Manager will be entitled to 5% of all completed transactions. The maximum turnover handled by a single manager is limited the by company’s policy and is set at $100,000 per month. Thus the maximum monthly pay will constitute $3,000-5,000.

Type of Employment:

Agreement

Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week

Important:

We also have a business proposal for US company owners and managing directors. Private US businesses can accept funds from our customers with no limitations with a monthly turnover of up to 500,000.00 US dollars. Their profit is set at 7.5% of the turnover and may constitute $40,000.00 monthly. Please apply if you have a legal running business and are interested in this offer.

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) It is the identical job to all of their previous aliases. 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. The potential for absolutely massive fraud is self evident from the "business proposal for US company owners".

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) Fake staff: Their 'Team' doesn't change between aliases, apart from the names for the fake 'Director' and 'Best Employers", (I guess these Russian fakers mean "Best Employees"). This time the same faces are Victor Petrov, Veronica Pena and Luis Martinez, (in the Modern Design & Development, LLC fraud, the same faces were Kramarenko Sergey Nikolaevich, Pimakova L. S. and Tim H. B.).

 Anyone know where the photographs have been stolen from? (almost certainly a Russian source).

Team

viii) Another identical alias, another set of fake contact Details & fake certificates for this serial criminal from their 'Business Licence' page:

N.B. - They have stolen the identity of a genuine company, in this case a Florida based company of the same name - it's what they always do.

RUSSIAN ADDRESS
371 Krasnarmeyskaya st.
Moscow, 422000
Russian Federation

***The following address details are stolen and so have been converted to an image***

Stolen Florida address

 • - A Google search for the Russian address "371 Krasnarmeyskaya st. Moscow" shows no sign of these crooks.
 • - A Google Maps search for the Russian address "371 Krasnarmeyskaya st. Moscow" returns the message: "We were not able to locate the address" - it is fake.
• - The above Florida address is simply the address of the Florida based company whose identity they have stolen, however, a Google search for the address returns a construction company owned by the same principal and a Google Maps search for the same address shows the same construction company that clearly has nothing to do with these crooks.
• - A Google search for the fake DUNS number 78-738-0807 shows that it has also been used for many others of their scams All clear evidence of fake details and fraud.
ix) The Usual Spam
Dear xxxxxxx,
This is Veronica Pena. I am personnel manager of our Company. We noticed
your CV so Our department believe that you are qualified for the vacancy of
US Financial Manager.

For more information concerning this post, please visit this site:

http://alpha-design-services.com/career.html

this post could be the good addon to your main work.

view links below for more info about our firm:

Our products:
http://alpha-design-services.com/services.html
Certificates:
http://alpha-design-services.com/buslic.html

If you are interested, write me now.
Faithfully
Veronica Pena
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the fake ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC (stolen Identity) 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

alphadesignservices.net
alphadesignservicesllc.net
alpha-design-services.com
alphadesignservicesllc.net*
Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 15-Mar-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 15-Mar-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 29-Mar-2010
MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC. - 27-Mar-2010
 		Host & IP address

Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Oversee.net of Los Angeles on IP address 208.73.210.27
Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked
*- Maildrop domain at present, (transferred from Melbourne IT/Yahoo to Moniker).
Domain Whois Data (These are criminal registered domains - Any personal whois details are fake or stolen and so have been redacted where necessary).
Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 15-mar-2010   Updated 15-mar-2010  Expires 15-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM  

Domain Name.......... alphadesignservices.net
  Creation Date........ 2010-03-16
  Registration Date.... 2010-03-16
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-03-16
  Organisation Name.... Michael Newman
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address. MA
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Michael Newman
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........ MA
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... ******************
  Admin Phone.......... ******************
  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
 Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 22-mar-2010   Updated 22-mar-2010  Expires 22-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

Domain Name.......... alphadesignservicesllc.net
  Creation Date........ 2010-03-23
  Registration Date.... 2010-03-23
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-03-23
  Organisation Name.... Ronald Emig
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address. IN
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Ronald Emig
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........ IN
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... ******************
  Admin Phone.......... ******************
  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
 Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 29-mar-2010   Updated 29-mar-2010  Expires 29-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

Domain Name.......... alpha-design-services.com
  Creation Date........ 2010-03-29
  Registration Date.... 2010-03-29
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-03-29
  Organisation Name.... ******************
  Organisation Address. ******************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. Perryville
  Organisation Address. 21903
  Organisation Address. MD
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... ******************
  Admin Address........ ******************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ Perryville
  Admin Address........ 21903
  Admin Address........ MD
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... ******************
  Admin Phone.......... ******************
  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
Registrar:     MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC.
Status:        clientDeleteProhibited
Dates:         Created 27-mar-2010   Updated 27-mar-2010  Expires 27-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   NS1.DSREDIRECTION.COM  NS2.DSREDIRECTION.COM 

Domain Name: ALPHADESIGNSERVICESLLC.NET
Registrar: MONIKER

Registrant [2557500]:
        Moniker Privacy Services ALPHADESIGNSERVICESLLC.NET@domainservice.com
        Moniker Privacy Services
        20 SW 27th Ave.
        Suite 201
        Pompano Beach
        FL
        33069
        US

Administrative Contact [2557500]:
        Moniker Privacy Services ALPHADESIGNSERVICESLLC.NET@domainservice.com
        Moniker Privacy Services
        20 SW 27th Ave.
        Suite 201
        Pompano Beach
        FL
        33069
        US
        Phone: +1.9549848445
        Fax:   +1.9549699155

Billing Contact [2557500]:
        Moniker Privacy Services ALPHADESIGNSERVICESLLC.NET@domainservice.com
        Moniker Privacy Services
        20 SW 27th Ave.
        Suite 201
        Pompano Beach
        FL
        33069
        US
        Phone: +1.9549848445
        Fax:   +1.9549699155

Technical Contact [2557500]:
        Moniker Privacy Services ALPHADESIGNSERVICESLLC.NET@domainservice.com
        Moniker Privacy Services
        20 SW 27th Ave.
        Suite 201
        Pompano Beach
        FL
        33069
        US
        Phone: +1.9549848445
        Fax:   +1.9549699155

Domain servers in listed order:

        NS1.DSREDIRECTION.COM
        NS2.DSREDIRECTION.COM

        Record created on:        2010-03-27 15:11:39.0
        Database last updated on: 2010-03-27 15:12:56.51
        Domain Expires on:        2011-03-27 15:11:39.0

DNS Lookup: alphadesignservices.net A record (also valid for alphadesignservicesllc.net)
Searching for alphadesignservices.net A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for alphadesignservices.net A record at D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.31.80.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: alphadesignservices.net.)
Searching for alphadesignservices.net A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports alphadesignservices.net.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
alphadesignservices.net. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
alphadesignservices.net. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
alphadesignservices.net. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
alphadesignservices.net. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
alphadesignservices.net. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
alphadesignservices.net. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
alphadesignservices.net. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.

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

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is the usual Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138. This IP range is the usual host for many of these criminals. Unfortunately Yahoo have a history of ignoring reports, reporting they've acted when they haven't, reinstating criminal domains and refusing to report when they've taken action so the criminals continue to favour them
***Latest News*** 16th. March 2010
Webpage created
***Latest News*** 19th. March 2010
News from Derek bear - the domain alphadesignservices.net has been disabled - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** 24th. March 2010
The criminals have a new domain - alphadesignservicesllc.net - hosted on the same old Yahoo network above.
***Latest News*** 25th. March 2010
The domain alphadesignservicesllc.net has been deleted - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** 29th. March 2010
The criminals have two known domains back in use - alpha-design-services.com for the website and a maildrop domain alphadesignservicesllc.net (manager@alphadesignservicesllc.net in the spam), which has been transferred by the crooks from Yahoo/Melbourne IT to Moniker - yet another example of Yahoo/Melbourne IT incompetence or collusion by not putting a transfer block on the domain. Network details, first the maildrop domain:

DNS Lookup: alphadesignservicesllc.net A record
Searching for alphadesignservicesllc.net A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to i.gtld-servers.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for alphadesignservicesllc.net A record at i.gtld-servers.net. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns2.dsredirection.com. (zone: alphadesignservicesllc.net.)
Searching for alphadesignservicesllc.net A record at ns2.dsredirection.com. [204.13.160.55]: Reports alphadesignservicesllc.net.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
alphadesignservicesllc.net. A IN 600 208.73.210.27

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

Server Response
ns2.dsredirection.com [204.13.160.55] 208.73.210.27
ns1.dsredirection.com [208.73.215.55] 208.73.210.27

The host for this criminal's maildrop domain is Oversee.net of Los Angeles on IP address 208.73.210.27
and now the main website domain:

DNS Lookup: alpha-design-services.com A record
Searching for alpha-design-services.com A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to a.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for alpha-design-services.com A record at a.gtld-servers.net. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: alpha-design-services.com.)
Searching for alpha-design-services.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports alpha-design-services.com.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
alpha-design-services.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
alpha-design-services.com. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
alpha-design-services.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
alpha-design-services.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
alpha-design-services.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
alpha-design-services.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
alpha-design-services.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 alpha-design-services.com. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

Still on the Yahoo 'small business' network on IP addresses  69.147.83.187, 69.147.83.188, 98.136.50.138.