Asia Finance
Group home page
screenshot (16-Jan-2009):
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.
Asia
Finance Group is
a typical Russian money laundering scam. The part-time, work from home, money
mule job of "Transaction Manager", (the clue as to the nature of the job is in the name...), is located under the 'Vacansies'
(sic) tab. Their domain asiafinancegroup.com was only
registered with ENOM, INC. (WebDirect LLC)
on 08-Dec-2008 despite their clearly bogus claim to have been founded in 1989. They
are displaying a money mule job,
they have no internet presence and their location details are bogus.
Some if not all of their site content is stolen, for instance the
'Solutions For Business' paragraph above has been stolen from the escrow.com website.
Evidence
of
Spamming and Criminal Fraud:
i)
Their domain asiafinancegroup.com
was only registered with ENOM, INC. (WebDirect LLC)
on 08-Dec-2008
which makes a nonsense of their ludicrous claim, (above), of being "the most trusted escrow service on the Internet", not to mention this claim on their 'About Us' page: "Asia Finance was founded as a neutral Escrow Agent in London in 1989" . Clear evidence of fraud and
misrepresentation.
ii)
A Google
search for "Asia Finance Group" shows that these criminals have
absolutely no
web presence. (Not to be confused with the First Asia Finance Group or any other company of a similar name).
iii)
The payload of the website is the usual
money laundering mule job under the 'Vacansies' (sic)
tab: Transaction Manager: Start your career with Asia Finance Group and earn up to 4 000 USD per month!
Asia
Finance Group is currently looking for dynamic individuals from
different countries to be responsible for the management of
international transactions. This position will work closely with
clients and firm personnel to ensure tax engagements are completed in
an accurate and timely manner. Clients are primarily involved in
manufacturing and distribution, high-tech and service industries.
Masters degree in taxation a plus.
Job category: Accounting and Finance. Salary: up to 50 000 yearly. Minimum education: high school graduation degree.
Basic requirements:
- a computer with access to the Internet, e-mail - age 21 + - 3-5 hours during the week (Monday - Friday) - possibility to check e-mail twice a day. - daytime phone, always on - responsibility, communicability an hard working
We offer competitive compensation, including commission and expense reimbursement.
v) The job title of 'Transaction Manager' pretty well spells out the part-time, work-from-home ILLEGALmoney
mule function - it will get your bank account and
your assets frozen and earn you a criminal record. Do not be tempted.
vi)
No legitimate company would advertise for private citizens to operate
as unlicensed and
illegal money transfer agents. To do so clearly
defines the Asia
Finance Group company as
both criminal and
fraudulent.
There is also a 'phishing' for
identity theft aspect due to the nature of identity proof usually
requested upon registration, (usually a photocopy of a driving license
or passport).
United Kingdom 99 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NG Phone no. +44 02895 81080 GBasiafinance@gmail.com
China Shanghai Xi-Too Road #354 Zip:202340 chinaasiafinance@gmail.com
Russia Saint-Petersburg Nevskiy pr.#46 Zip:186476 Ruasiafinance@gmail.com
United States. 578 Virginia ave, #9, Atlanta, GA +1 4044789567 USAasiafinance@gmail.com
•
- Notice that the email response addresses are all webmail addresses - no reputable company would do that.
• - The address 99 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NG Googles as the address of several firms, but there is no listing for these crooks. • - The telephone number +44 02895 81080 is not a London number at all - geographically it is actually a Northern Ireland number. • - A Google search for "Xi-Too Road" returns zero results
• - According to this list, 46 Nevsky Prospekt is "Former home of Hollywood Nites - club + Neva restaurant - Grill Master". There is no evidence that these fraudsters are there. • - The address 578 Virginia ave, Atlanta returns zero hits in Google. There is no evidence that these fraudsters are there. All clear evidence of
fake location details and fraud. viii)Although they claim to be based in the UK, a webcheck shows that Asia Finance Co.are not
registered with the UK Companies House, and a similar webcheck
shows that neither are they registered with the UK FSA, (Financial
Services Authority), which they would have to be to be able to legally
trade in the financial sector in the UK - try it for yourself. Clear, verifiable and absolutely
irrefutable evidence of fraud. ix) Although they claim to have an office in Atlanta GA, Asia Finance Co. are not listed in the Georgia 'Corporation and Business Entity Database'
- clear evidence of a
fake company and fraud. The above evidence is clear
proof that the Asia
Finance Group
website is a fraudulent website set up with intent to deceive. 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 invariably 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
asiafinancegroup.com
Registrar
ENOM, INC. (WebDirect LLC/ruskyhost.ru) 08-Dec-2008
Active Suspended/Disabled Parked
If you know of any other
active domains, please let me know. DNS Data: (Valid for asiafinancegroup.com)
How I am searching:
Searching for asiafinancegroup.com A record at a.root-servers.net
[198.41.0.4]: Got referral to K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.) Searching for asiafinancegroup.com A record at K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
[192.52.178.30]: Got referral to ns3.ruskyhost.net. (zone:
asiafinancegroup.com.) Searching for asiafinancegroup.com A record at ns3.ruskyhost.net. [208.71.170.156]: Reports asiafinancegroup.com. Response:
Domain
Type
Class
TTL
Answer
asiafinancegroup.com.
A
IN
14400
174.36.195.192
asiafinancegroup.com.
NS
IN
86400
ns4.ruskyhost.net.
asiafinancegroup.com.
NS
IN
86400
ns1.slavhost.com.
asiafinancegroup.com.
NS
IN
86400
ns2.slavhost.com.
asiafinancegroup.com.
NS
IN
86400
ns3.ruskyhost.net.
ns1.slavhost.com.
A
IN
149101
67.228.53.183
ns2.slavhost.com.
A
IN
166
67.228.22.132
ns3.ruskyhost.net.
A
IN
14400
208.71.170.156
ns4.ruskyhost.net.
A
IN
141328
204.15.132.79
Looking up at the 4 asiafinancegroup.com. parent servers:
Server
Response
ns2.slavhost.com [67.228.22.132]
174.36.195.192
ns1.slavhost.com [67.228.53.183]
174.36.195.192
ns3.ruskyhost.net [208.71.170.156]
174.36.195.192
ns4.ruskyhost.net [204.15.132.79]
174.36.195.192
The host
for this criminal is listed as SoftLayer Technologies Inc. of Dallas, Texas
on IP address 174.36.195.192. ***Latest News*** 16th. January
2009 - Webpage set
up ***Latest News*** 3rd. March 2009 An interesting development - the domain asiafinancegroup.com
now resolves to a Russian host forum, (Slavhost.ru), and it is not a
redirect - the forum content is on the URL http://asiafinancegroup.com
and the Softlayer hosting on 174.36.195.192 is still intact so I'm not 100% sure what is going on - I'll leave it all intact for the moment.
This response to an applicant spotted: For Mr. xxx ,personaly. From: James B (groupeurasia@googlemail.com) Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:20:21 AM To: xxx@xxx.com
1 attachment(s) agreement...pdf (55.1 KB)
To:Mr. xxx Information from jobsdb.com From:Eurasia Finance Co Ltd Job in Thailand. Salary: $4000.
I
hope my letter reaches you in good health and attitude of mind. My name
is Brian Schubert, I'm a Senior Manager in Asia Finance Co.
First of all, thank you for your interest.
Now you can start a Transaction Manager career with our company, and earn 4 000 $ a month.
The
main objective of the Transaction Manager in our company is to open
personal Bank Accounts in different branches of certain Banks.
For each account a debit card should be created. All the expences are covered by Asia Finance Group.
After the needed amount of accounts with debet cards is reached the cards should be sent to your Senior Manager by Fed-Ex.
All
transfers are going for our company services. Services that we provide
include but not limited to escrow, audit, banking, law, accounting and
financial consulting.
The reason for our clients to use our
company is our perfect reputation in financial world, confirmed with
recommendation of the top audit companies of the world.
The
reason why we use personal accounts in our business is this. Last year
there was a new law created in European Union. Due to that law a VAT
(value added tax) on foreign corporate transfers is 20%. Same time no
VAT included to the money, transfered from personal accounts. That
means that using our service our clients can save up to 20% of their
earnings, following the law strictly during the whole process.
Transaction Managers network is our know-how, widely known in financial
market nowadays. Our company has won the 2nd Award during "Finance.
Investments. Management" International Forum (New York City) for the
development of this system.
We do not want to avoid
paying taxes, no way. We follow the laws, rules and are 100% legit
company. We just want our services be cheaper, and establish
partnership with our Thailand partners escrow agent.
The other
reason to use Transaction Manager network is this. As we cater for
securities, investments and brokerage services, provision of high speed
of payment operations and possibility to offer instant transfers to our
system have become our highest priority tasks. While ensuring these
proactive services we offer our customers strong competitive advantages
in the context of flexibility and tailored response to the changes in
the securities market and therefore possibility to increase their
revenues. Alternatively, direct money transfers inevitably incur
certain delays, ex. an interbank transfer takes from 1 to 5 days, which
is not admissible for the securities market, where fluctuations might
happen very often. Therefore we prefer to use our Transaction Managers
network to open accounts with all major banks worldwide, while our
customers transfer money by internal bank payments, which take from
several minutes to 3 hours.
In more details your objectives are:
1.
Sign an agreement with Asia Finance Group. After signing the agreement
you will recieve the payment to cover your expences. The payment will
be done by any convinient method.
2. Create 10 accounts in
different Branches of Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited
www.bangkokbank.com and The Siam Commercial Bank http://www.scb.co.th.
Five accounts should be created in each bank. Not more that two
accounts should be opened in one branch.
3. Order 10 debet cards for your accounts, one card for each.
4. Send 10 debet cards to your Senior Manager. The adress of one of our offices will be provided.
5.
In one business day you will receive your salary (4 000 $). Please
note, that you can earn much more every month, working for Asia Finance
Group. We pay 4 000 $ for every 10 debet cards. Please note, that
all the transfers to your account are performed under "Personal
Expense" notice that's why you won't be charged with any taxes.
Please follow up to our web page for any details needed. http://www.asiafinancegroup.com/
Please feel free to contact me at any time,
Faithfully yours. ***Latest News*** 12th. March 2009
The domain asiafinancegroup.com has been redirected to a forum - please inform me of any active domains for this criminal.
