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This Avanta Group scam is related to the SmartOne Inc. fraud, De Cart Ltd fraud, the Renaissance Capital Advisors Ltd scam, the Trust Company Inc, Finance International, Front Asset, E-Z Transfer, SurRate Inc, Des Group Inc., Business & Professional Consultants Inc. scams and no doubt many others, in other words it's a standard run-of-the mill money transfer fraud of the type that are turned out by the dozen by the same bunch of criminals using the same hosts and registrars that they regularly use.

This particular fraud uses a website stolen from an apparently genuine company called Revenue Recovery and Business Planning Group


N.B. This fraudulent company should not be confused with any other company  bearing a similar name. This fraudulent company is identified by these website graphics and the money laundering mule job it spamvertises.


Avanta Group : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) The Avanta Group website is clearly based on a stolen copy of the Revenue Recovery and Business Planning Group website with minor modifications to the menu bar to include the usual Careers option that the genuine site does not have.

ii) The domain avantacompany.com was only registered with Melbourne IT (Yahoo as reseller) on
19-dec-2007
iii) Contact Details from website:
Levels 11, Swanson Street 29,
Auckland, New Zealand
Office hours from website:
Our office hours are:
Monday-Friday
8AM-2PM & 5PM-7PM EST

EST?
I don't think so - the genuine time zone for Auckland is NZDT or NZST. A silly mistake, but it serves to prove they are lying.

iv) Needless to say, Google has never heard of this particular Avanta Group except as spammers and scammers. Talking of which, they send out bogus spam purporting to come from Monster.com. Here is an example:
We have read on Monster site you are looking for job. We have thoroughly considered your CV. So we would like to offer you the position "Financial Reporting Manager" in our Company.

Duties:
- Reception and processing of payments
- Creating reports
- Ability to communicate by email and receive calls effectively etc.

Location:
USA home-based work

Basic salary:
PERSONAL ACCOUNT
-Payment per hour - $30.00 plus $1500.00 monthly.

BUSINESS ACCOUNT
- $1500.00 monthly plus 5.5% from each transfer you handle. CORPORATE ACCOUNT
- $1500.00 monthly plus 5.5% from each transfer you handle. You will get payment ONCE per week.
Benefits:
- Vacation days and holidays, and flexible work hours
- Employee referral bonus program
- Learning opportunities
- Employee assistance services for personal issues, answers to financial and legal questions

This job will not distract you from your current activity, as it will not take much time. On the other hand, you will be happy to get a substantial surplus to the basic salary. We pay the highest net commissions in history of Internet payment processing!

If you are interested in this position, please reply to this email.

Please don't be suspicious of email you reply to. It is used for hiring process and prevents the Company emails from spam messages.

We think our cooperation would be profitable for the both parts.

Best wishes,
Avanta Group

Note the clear money mule function of accepting money into your personal account and transferring it out to the criminals, (using moneygram or Western Union of course).

v) If you reply to the above spam, thus showing your interest, you will get a copy of this agreement to sign and return, (stored on the criminal's website here, along with ones for Front Asset & Target Capital) :

PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

 

1.Parties

 

 

 

Employer:

Avanta Company, represented by Jackson Black, President

 

 

Address:

Levels 11, Swanson Street 29, Auckland, New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee:

 

 

 

Address:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Title of Position

Financial Reporting Manager

 

 

3. Commencement/Termination Date

 

3.1 This is a Part-time Contract between the Employer and the Employee. The duration of the contract will be from the moment of its signature by both Parties until terminated by any of the Parties.

 

 

 

3.2 This contract does not confer any right to any permanent job that may become vacant or available.

 

4. Duties

The Employee shall carry out such duties as are assigned to him/her by the Employer confirming to the Law, including but not limited to:

(a)

cooperation between           (the Employee) and Avanta Company, represented by Jackson Black, President (the Employer) regarding the items as stated in Paragraphs 4.b, 4.c, 4.d, 4.e and 4.f of this Agreement.

(b)

opening an account or use an existing account in a bank deemed most appropriate for cooperation and for handling international business activity (investments) requested by the Employer, making available information as required by the Employer and vice versa as per Employer’s instructions.

(c)

handling international investments going from customers of the Employer to the account in the Employee’s name requested by the Employer and vice versa as per Employer’s instructions.

(d)

being responsible for the amount of the international investments going from customers of the Employer to the account in the Employee’s name.

(e)

maintaining appropriate records and making available information as required by the Employer.

(f)

keeping a mobile telephone switched on 24 hours a day, being able to answer telephone calls.

From time to time the Employee may be required to carry out other duties appropriate to his/her position.

 

5.  Hours of Work

 

5.1 There are no fixed hours of work imposed on the Employee. However, the Employee should be able to fulfil the tasks set forth before him/her in the time frame specified by the Employer.

 

5.2 The Employee shall be available on his/her mobile telephone 24 hours a day in order to be able to promptly deal with arising challenges if there are any.

 

 

6. Remuneration

 

6.1 Remuneration will be paid depending on the amount of the transfers from customers of the Employer.

 

6.2 Remuneration will constitute $1.500.00 plus $30 per hour (5.5% commission per each received transfer + $1500/mo for managers with corporate/business account). The payment is sent as a wire transfer/payment check approximately once a week..

 

6.3 There are no other payments that the Employer is liable to pay the Employee other than as stated in Paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2 of this Agreement.

 

 

7. Annual Leave

Holiday entitlement will be in accordance with the United States of America Law.

 

 

8. Sick Pay

 

8.1 The Employee, being a part-time one, is not entitled to any sick leave pay.

 

8.2 The Employer must be notified on the morning of the first day of any unavailability due to illness.

 

 

9. Confidentiality

The Employer is obliged to maintain confidentially in certain aspects of its work.  It is the duty of the Employee to observe such confidentiality.  This restriction shall continue to apply after termination of this Contract.

 

 

10. Intellectual Property

Any discovery or invention or secret process or improvements in procedure made or discovered by the Employee while discharging his/her duties in relation to this position is the property of the Employer or of such companies as the Employer may nominate for this purpose.

 

11. Health and Safety

Responsibility for health and safety at work rests with the Employee.  He/she should carry out their duties and responsibilities taking due care regarding health, safety and welfare without putting at risk the health of themselves or any third party.

 

12. Resignation/Termination

The Employee may terminate this Contract on not less than one months notice in writing.

 

13. Suspension/Dismissal/Discipline

The Employer shall have power to suspend the Employee, to impose disciplinary sanctions on the Employee and to terminate the Contract in accordance with disciplinary/dismissal procedures as subject to the Law of USA and any other applicable legislation.

14. External Activity

Any external activity engaged in by the Employee must not be such as to interfere with the fulfilling of the Employee’s duties and responsibilities to the Employer.

 

15. Declarations and Signatures

Both Employer and the Employee have read and fully understand the foregoing Terms and Conditions of Employment and agree to abide by the terms of this contract and further warrant that all statements and representations which have been made in application for this appointment are true and correct.

 

Seal 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

Date:

 

/

 

/

 

 

(Employer -

Jackson Black

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

Date:

 

/

 

/

 

 

(Employee -

 

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




vi) Note the clear illegal 'money mule' function outlined in the above agreement. This agreement is exactly the same agreement that is supplied for the Front Asset fraud and all the others.

vii) No legitimate company is going to spamvertise for this sort of illegal part time, 'work from home' money transfer position among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population, especially for overseas workers.



The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the 
 Avanta Group website has been set up by money laundering fraudsters purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job. 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 money laundering activity and spamming - 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.
 Avanta Group Fraudsters - current hosting details [Updated 25th. January 2008]

Current Main Domains, Hosts and  Registrars
Domain

No known active domains
Registrar



Host Network



Host IP



See table below for the full list of known active & suspended main domains used by this criminal.
Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.

Current Botnet Nameserver Domains and Registrars
Not botnet hosted at present - DNS data below. See table below for the full list of known active & suspended nameserver domains for this criminal.

The Spam Headers

Fresh spam required, full source code please or as an attachment.



The Spam Content

Fresh spam required, full source code please or as an attachment.

The Zombie Botnet

The criminal as not using a zombie botnet at this time. Normal DNS Data below.

Initial DNS Data (de-cartltd.biz, de-cartltd.org, decartltd.net, decartltd.biz, decartltd.org)

How I am searching:

Searching for avantacompany.com A record at m.root-servers.net [202.12.27.33]: Got referral to C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for avantacompany.com A record at C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: avantacompany.com.)
Searching for avantacompany.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205]: Reports avantacompany.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.208
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.209
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.235
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.236
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.237
avantacompany.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.192
avantacompany.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
avantacompany.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
avantacompany.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
avantacompany.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
yns1.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
yns2.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20
ns8.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
ns9.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20

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

Server Response
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205]  216.39.58.204 216.39.58.205 216.39.58.206 216.39.58.207 216.39.58.208 216.39.58.209
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20] Timeout

Yet again it's the usual Yahoo small business network that is hosting these criminals.

Here are all of the known domains that are/have been used for the
Avanta Group fraud:

Domain

avantacompany.com

Status

Disabled
Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo)
19-dec-2007

Please notify me of any errors or domains not listed here.

i) The criminal will not respond to your challenge, but will use the notice to prepare a new network - immediate suspension is requested please, if allowed for by your AUP.

Fraud Blog

Initial entry 25th. January 2008