API Advertising, Inc. scam

API Advertising, Inc. Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

API Advertising, Inc. scam screenshot (31-Mar-2009)

API Advertising, Inc. fraud is one of a series of Russian fake advertising agencies that is the vehicle for a money laundering mule job spamvertised by the usual spam campaign aimed at recruiting mules for their criminal activities. They claim on their 'About Us' page: "Founded in 1995" but their initial domain api-advertising.com, like so many of these fraudster's domains, was only registered with the XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION on 04-Dec-2008 for the usual criminal fraud domain minimum period of one year. The purpose of the website is to carry and lend legitimacy to the usual part-time, work from home money laundering mule job under the 'Careers' menu option. Their location details are fake and they have absolutely no web presence apart from their own fake website and fraud site listings. It's a clearly criminal fraudulent website spamvertising the same fraud job as Avant-guard Advertising Agency, Citadelle Ind. Company, SZ Solutions Ltd and One Box Advertising Inc. - this is a serial fraudster. His website is zombie botnet hosted which defines it as illegal even without any further evidence.

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.

API Advertising, Inc. : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) API Advertising, Inc. claim on their website "Founded in 1995 by a group of graduates from one of the best legal colleges in Russia, and thanks to competent management and forecasting throughout the past 13 years, the company has turned from a small firm dealing with legal support for foreign clients in Russia into a large corporation with branches and representatives Russia, Canada, United States.", but the criminal's domain api-advertising.com was only registered with XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION on 04-Dec-2008 for the usual criminal fraud domain minimum period of one year. A clear indication of fraud

ii) Although they claim to have an office in New York, a webcheck shows that API Advertising, Inc. are not registered in the NY state business register, clear evidence of a fake company. Check for yourself.

iii) A Google search shows absolutely no internet presence at all for API Advertising, Inc. apart from their own fake website amd fraud website listings

iv) This scam is related by content, (same fraud job), to the following similar scams: SZ Solutions Ltd, Citadelle Ind. Company and Avant-guard Advertising Agency. - this is a serial fraudster.

v) Fake Location Details (copied from their website)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Russian Offices:

Moscow
Phone: +7 495 473 8837
E-mail: support@api-advertising.com
Address: Bakuninskaya 1, unit #5

• - There is no Google listing for these criminals at the above address
• - There are no Google hits for the telephone number +7 495 473 8837 apart from the criminal's own website.

St. Petersburg
Phone: +7 812 372 7737
E-mail: piter@api-advertising.com
Address: lomonosova 1, unit #8

• - There is no Google listing for these criminals at the above address.
• - There are no Google hits for the telephone number +7 812 372 7737 apart from the criminal's own website.

US Office:

New York
Phone: +1 212 477 2637
E-mail: james.chevikov@web2mail.com
Address: 400 Chambers St. Suite #104

• - There is no Google listing for these criminals at the above address.
• - There are no Google hits for the telephone number +1 212 477 2637 apart from the criminal's own website.

Canadian Representative:

Toronto
Phone: +1-647-258-4718
Available From 10am-7pm
E-mail: markapi@web2mail.com

• - There are no Google hits for the telephone number +1-647-258-4718 apart from the criminal's own website.

These are virtually all the same fake location details as for the SZ Solutions Ltd fraudster part from new telephone numbers - clear evidence of fraud.

vi) The Money Mule job from the website:

API Careers

API Advertising Inc. can offer you a one-time opportunity for a position within the ranks of our large thriving company that needs your skills and devotion to grow even further. We have a variety of openings available for enthusiastic and responsible people searching for work in the advertising field. However, prior advertising experience isn't a necessity. We do welcome previous online office and sales experience but neither does any of that constitute necessary qualities. We are looking for devoted and diligent employees residing primarily in Canada willing to further the company's functionality.

Our employees are provided with sizeable salaries depending on the type of job you wish to undertake, but that isn't all. Base salary is topped off with an array of bonuses for hard work and efficiency giving you control over your own income. The job offers we provide are full of opportunity for everyone with a strong sense of responsibility and drive. Working for API Advertising, you will be in control of your job and all benefits thereof will depend solely on the amount of enthusiasm you can devote to it.

The positions we offer include responsible work that implies and requires true devotion to the job but in turn allows you to display your skills and become part of an ever-growing corporation while receiving proper pay and a meaningful addition to your career as a whole.

Students, parents, self-employed people or even the unemployed: this is a chance for everyone with three hours and more of free time each day. Think it over but don't take too long. You really have nothing to lose!

Send us your resume and we will make sure to reply as soon as possible.

We are glad to provide several opened job vacancies in our company!

We offer the position of service manager which includes the following duties and responsibilities: contacting advertisers and marketing agencies all over the world and establishing business and sales relations with them, receiving orders, payments, billing records, payment invoices and transactions from our clients in Canada and investors mostly from the USA and Russia.

We are looking for new employees to fill this position due to the local and international laws prohibiting direct orders and transactions from foreign parties. This makes it more convenient for both sides to establish successful business relations and carry on the transactions between our clients and investors, helping to save on additional financial and time expenses.
All the payments that we receive from our clients first are precisely and accurately checked and verified by the security department to provide us only with completely legal funds avoiding any other. We value our reputation of a transparent and reliable company that has long and successful business relations with a large number of well-known companies all over the world.

We offer you the chance to become an important link in this new and progressively developing field and to represent financial interests of our company in Canada. Keep in mind that you would be an official company representative all throughout your work process, all rights and abilities included.

Your salary will start at $2,000 along with bonuses that will depend on the type of employee plan you choose. The salary will be paid to you via our standard payroll process. This is not the only payments you will receive though. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for a variety of bonuses for performing industrious work and diligence, thus increasing your total income significantly depending on your drive and efficiency.

This is the usual clear part time, work from home job for "Students, parents, self-employed people or even the unemployed....with three hours and more of free time each day" money laundering mule position that will get your account closed, your assets frozen and will earn you a visit from the police. Do not be tempted or you will also lose a great deal of money when the company 'payments' come back as fraudulent.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the API Advertising, Inc. website has been set up by money laundering criminal fraudsters purely for the purpose of criminal activity. 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.

API Advertising, Inc. Fraudsters - current hosting details

Domains and Registrars

Domain

api-advertising.com

Criminal Registered Nameserver Domain

mademdns.com

Registrar

XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION - 04-Dec-2008

BEIJING INNOVATIVE LINKAGE TECHNOLOGY LTD. DBA DNS.COM.CN - 17-Nov-2008

Active
Suspended or Inactive

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

DNS Data (api-advertising.com)
Looking up at the 4 api-advertising.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns2.mademdns.com [66.176.239.188]	92.83.47.99 94.137.172.166 76.31.209.34 68.48.17.196 76.187.141.116 220.88.91.82 65.32.153.230 212.2.136.78 79.112.73.244 115.48.56.141 93.81.90.230 76.22.205.142 79.119.183.124 68.63.32.164 82.231.70.39 66.176.239.188
ns1.mademdns.com [79.113.109.221]	2.83.47.99 94.137.172.166 76.31.209.34 68.48.17.196 76.187.141.116 220.88.91.82 65.32.153.230 212.2.136.78 79.112.73.244 115.48.56.141 93.81.90.230 76.22.205.142 79.119.183.124 68.63.32.164 82.231.70.39 66.176.239.188
ns4.mademdns.com [117.198.163.127]	2.83.47.99 94.137.172.166 76.31.209.34 68.48.17.196 76.187.141.116 220.88.91.82 65.32.153.230 212.2.136.78 79.112.73.244 115.48.56.141 93.81.90.230 76.22.205.142 79.119.183.124 68.63.32.164 82.231.70.39 66.176.239.188
ns3.mademdns.com [78.96.117.216]	Timeout

The data shows a large 16-IP site hosting zombie botnet where the three criminal owned nameservers ns1.mademdns.com [79.113.109.221], ns2.mademdns.com [66.176.239.188] and ns4.mademdns.com [117.198.163.127] all of which are hosted on zombies are acting as zombie botnet controllers 'herding' the rotating zombies, (as determined by RDNS), in the 'A' records list which are hosting the fraud site (as determined by TRACERT). See The Zombie Botnet 'Host By Proxy' for an explanation of this method of hosting.

***Latest News*** - Initial entry 31st. Mar 2009