Astin Delivery

Astin Delivery Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Astin Delivery scam screenshot - 25-Jun-2009

This fraudster should not be confused with any other company that may have a similar name. The website graphics and the evidence below identify this criminal.

Astin Delivery is a re-shipping fraud and money mule job spamvertising website. It's only purpose is to lend an air of legitimacy to a spamvertised reshipping fraud job of accepting parcels, (goods bought using credit card fraud), to your private address, re-labelling them and sending them off to these criminals in the Ukraine or Russia with a likely side serving of a money mule job of accepting stolen money to your bank account and transferring a balance back to these criminals using Western Union. In this instance the primary job is entitled "Correspondence manager" and it appears under the 'Careers' tab. Their domain astindelivery.com was registered very recently for the usual 'criminals domain' one year minimum period, they have no Google web presence, (apart from their own fraud site, of course and fraud site listings), they appear to have no history, their location details are clearly fake and they are not a registered company. They have previous aliases of Mirax Cargo, Transcargo International Logistics, and recent aliases of Liram Delivery Service, Navitex, Unifex and Glorex Business Solutions among others. This time around their site content seems to be home-brewed, hence the 'Runglish' things like "We are able to pick up your freight from your place at a time that comfortably for you" and "Easy & prompt pretensions settlement", not to mention the usual fake testimonial: "This is the most reliable thing of thing we've ever used"

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The criminals domain, (astindelivery.com), was only registered with INTERNET.BS CORP., on 22-jun-2009 for the usual criminals domain minimum period of one year.

ii) A Google search for "Astin Delivery" shows that they have no web presence whatsoever apart from their own fraud website and fraud site listings. Clear evidence of fraud

iii) Bogus website content. The Astin Delivery above home-page content has has the usual 'Runglish' characteristics of a non-English speaking web site creator, with things such as "We are able to pick up your freight from your place at a time that comfortably for you" and "Easy & prompt pretensions settlement".

iv) The usual fake testimonial "This is the most reliable thing of thing we've ever used" generated by this fake testimonial generator. Google for more examples of its use.

v) The jobs from the website:

Position: Call Center Specialist
Department: Customer Support department
Salary: 1,600 Pounds a month
More Information

Position: Correspondence manager
Department: Correspondence department
Salary: $ 30.00 for every SENT parcel
More Information

Position: Accounting Manager
Department: Accounting department
Salary: 2,000 Pounds a month
More Information

There's the usual 'fog factor' of unavailable jobs, but the one that is of interest is the second one - this is the "More Information" for it:

Position: Correspondence manager
Department: Correspondence department
Salary: $ 30.00 for every SENT parcel

PRINCIPAL DUTY
- Checking goods* for performance capacity, defects and mechanical damages,
- Packing the given goods, filling in the acceptance form, indicating all defects and damages found,
- Sending goods to Sales Manager.

* All the parcels pass the control in the International Package Center, we care about your security.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES
- Assistance in company’s financial business

REQUIRED SKILLS
- Team work
- Basic knowledge of MS Office
- Accuracy
- More than 2 years experience in management

APPLY NOW:
Send your Resume to: support@astindelivery.com

You have a choice of two ways of going to jail, there - either as a reshipping fraud donkey if you accept the "Correspondence manager" job which entails accepting parcels to your home address and shipping them off to these crooks in the Ukraine or as a money mule if you accept the "ADDITIONAL DUTIES" of "Assistance in company’s financial business" which will entail accepting stolen cash to your private bank account and transferring a balance to the criminals. It amounts to money laundering and handling stolen goods and such criminal activity will get you a visit from the police and possibly a criminal record - don't be tempted. Such a job is clear evidence of fraud - no legitimate company is going to entrust such jobs to any John/Jane Doe recruited at random from the general public.

Google for "Checking goods* for performance capacity, defects and mechanical damages" to see the job website spamming and other aliases of these criminals.

vi) The bogus 'Contact Us' details from the website:

Contact us

Your calls are received by the phone: +44.2081339518
E-mail: support@astindelivery.com

You also can send us a letter by letter-post:

80 calvert ave, London, EC2A 3AY, United Kingdom

• - A Google search for the the address 80 calvert ave, London, EC2A 3AY returns only the criminal's fake website, which is not surprising, as:
• - According to the UK postcode checker, there is no such address as 80 calvert ave, London the message "Unfortunately we could not find this address" is returned - it is a fake address, (the street numbers don't go up that far) - clear evidence of fraud.
• - The telephone number +44.2081339518 returns a "number temporarily disabled" message when rung. - clear evidence of a fake number.
All clear evidence of fake details and fraud.

vii) A search of the UK 'Companies House' register shows that there is no company by the name of Astin Delivery registered in the UK - irrefutable evidence of a fake company and fraud - check for yourself.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the Astin Delivery 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 usually 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.

Astin Delivery Fraud Domain, Registrar. Host and IP Address.

Website Domain

astindelivery.com

Registrar

INTERNET.BS CORP., (22-jun-2009)

Host

NETDIRECT-NET

IP Address

78.159.114.88

Key:
Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Network Data:
DNS Lookup: astindelivery.com A record
Searching for astindelivery.com A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Timed out. Trying again.
Searching for astindelivery.com A record at c.root-servers.net [192.33.4.12]: Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for astindelivery.com A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to ns1.astindelivery.com. (zone: astindelivery.com.)
Searching for astindelivery.com A record at ns1.astindelivery.com. [95.168.160.204]: Reports astindelivery.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
astindelivery.com.	A	IN	3600	78.159.114.88
astindelivery.com.	NS	IN	3600	ns1.astindelivery.com.
astindelivery.com.	NS	IN	3600	ns2.astindelivery.com.
ns1.astindelivery.com.	A	IN	3600	95.168.160.204
ns2.astindelivery.com.	A	IN	3600	78.159.114.88

Looking up at the 2 astindelivery.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.astindelivery.com [95.168.160.204]	78.159.114.88
ns2.astindelivery.com [78.159.114.88]	78.159.114.88

The host of this criminal fraudster's website is NETDIRECT-NET on IP address 78.159.114.88.

***Latest News*** Webpage created 25th. June 2009 - thanks to Frank Bear for the 'heads-up' on this one.