Awesome Transportation Scam

Awesome Transportation Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Awesome Transportation screenshot - 24-Mar-2009

Awesome Transportation is just another scam website that exists to lend credence to a spamming campaign that attempts to recruit reshipping donkeys and/or money mules. Correspondence with the fake company reveals that they are the same criminals that are operating the Awesoft Inc. scam, in fact they are hosted on exactly the same IP address as the Awesoft Inc. scammers. The above website template is the same one as used by the WidePay Inc. scammers. The criminal's website was only registered very recently for the usual one year period and they have no internet presence whatsoever. They call themselves "Awesome Transportation" but their alleged management/web retail function, (I say alleged as they do not appear to have anything for sale), has nothing to do with transportation. They have a clearly identical scam going on under the name "Lucky Parcel Ltd" with the same site content and similar fake location details.

This fraudster should not be confused with any legitimate company of the same or similar name - the above screenshot clearly identifies the fake website and these fraudsters.

Awesome Transportation : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) The criminal's domain awesomeltd.net was only registered with KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH on 19-Feb-2009 for the usual 1 year period, (they don't normally expect them to last that long).

ii) They have an alternate alias of "Lucky Parcel Ltd" with the same site content and similar clearly fake location details.

iii) They have no Google web presence, not to be confused with a plethora of US companies with that name.

iv) The Contact Details from their Website are easily demonstrated to be fake as detailed below:

Our head office location: Moscow, Kutuzovkiy pr., 35 - 102

Our e-mail support: support@awesomeltd.net

Contact name: Vadim Petrov

They've mis-spelt Kutuzovkiy (sic) for a start - however the range of premises from 35-102 Kutuzovsky prospekt encompasses many other buildings, stores & restaurants such as the Kutuzovskaya at 41 Kutuzovsky Prospekt - they couldn't possibly occupy the full range - it's clearly a meaningless and fake address.

v) The Spam

From: Hiring dpt. <hiringawesome@gmail.com>
Subject: Dear ***** We are hiring!

Available vacancy: Supply Department Agent
Location: USA
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee / Virtual Office
Branch: Shipping, Transportation
Manages Others: No
Entrance fees: No
Job Type: Supply Chain, Purchasing
Education: 4 Year Degree
Experience: No experience required, full training provided
Contact Information:
AWESOME Transportation Ltd.
www.awesome ltd . net

Description:
We are a management company, which owns a network of shops in the CIS countries. We sell a variety of goods - electronics, home appliances, mobile phones, audio-video products, as well as shops and accessories. On our website you will find Home based / Part-Time Employee information about our company.
Shipping support representative.
As the Shipping support representative, you will generally work with parcels and correspondence. The employee will need perform a small market researches to find better pricing and conditions.

Job Responsibilities:
Internal communication with purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and finance departments.
External communication with suppliers domestic and international purchase office equipment and supplies; printing, imaging and presentation equipment.
Search for suppliers/manufacturers, consider price, quality, availability and technical support.
Arrange delivery to company's offices overseas.
Report on the completed purchase orders.

Requirements:
Knowledge of global sourcing and emerging market sourcing is preferred. Strong financial analysis capabilities and supplier negotiation skills required. US resident or valid US work permit. No criminal record.
Intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience with MS Word, Excel and Outlook. Excellent communication and organizational skills. Ability to work solely and as part of a team.

Advantages:
We value our employees' time and efforts. Our objective to your success is enhanced by our extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and vision benefits and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the No criminal record environment for our employees, where people can Additional benefits: and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

To Apply:
If you are interested in this job please send your resume. We will reply you in 2-3 business days.

Memo: We are sending you this offer as you have posted your resume on a job seekers website which provides resume access service. We will not contact you again if not required.
e-mail: hrawesomeltd@gmail.com

If you respond, you receive this:

From: Awesome Soft <hiring@awesomeltd.net>
Date: 2009/3/20

Dear *****.

Congratulations! We have been received and reviewed your resume. It is our pleasure to offer you the employment with Awesome Transportation LTD in the position of Supply agent commencing March 09, on the terms set forth in job description enclosed. Various benefits offered by our organization to new employees are described in attachments to this letter.

If you have any questions regarding this letter, our offer of employment or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are excited to have you join our organization and look forward to working with you.

If you would like to apply for this job offer please do the following steps:

1. Find POSITION SUMMARY.DOC document and read it.
2. If you agree with terms of job offer go to step №3.
3. Complete APPLICATION OF EMPLOYMENT.DOC and send back to us. You can send the filled application to the fax number (888) 320-6829 or by email.
4. Our Hiring department representative may call you to perform a phone interview or to ask some additional questions.

NOTE: Awesome Transportation LTD will never share any of your private information to any 3rd parties.

Sincerely Yours,

Yuri Petrov

HR manager

That clearly links the crooks to Awesome Soft, as does the Agreement document which is headed Awesome Soft. This is the Position Summary document mentioned above:

POSITION SUMMARY
In order to meet the need in qualified personnel for its new US office Awesome Transportation Ltd is looking for candidates to fill in the position of a Supply Agent. The position is understood as a part-time employment with 2 months probation period. The time commitment for the period is set at 3-4 hours per day, Mon-Fri but may also require working on Saturdays upon special request. The final working schedule is to be negotiated and settled by a Supervisor.
During the probation the employee will receive training with the main objective to acquire necessary skills and knowledge to ensure effective performance of the US based Supply Chain Department. The training is free of charge and will be held distantly by Supply Chain Senior Manager. All assignments, instructions, requests and training matter will be submitted by means of internet, emails and phone calls meaning that the candidate must have free access of these communication means.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The employee is entitled to a fixed salary of $2000 paid monthly to employee's account. No hourly, weekly or be-weekly pay is available. The monthly pay period starts from the day the Employment Agreement is signed and submitted by the employee. The company will provide the Supply Agent with funds for purchasing activities, pay taxes and cover all related expenses during the whole time of employment. There is no start up fee, direct or indirect charges.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
:: Establish cooperative working relationship with account management, project management, quality management, human resources, legal, and finance.
:: Receive and process purchase requests (during the probation will mostly handle orders initiated and submitted by overseas offices with the total cost of $5000-20000 per single order).
:: Perform price analysis and supplier search, consider price of the product, quality, availability, and technical support to achieve optimum price value.
:: Develop and increase successful business relations with selected supplier.
:: Obtain funds for purchasing activities by submitting on time Funds Allocation Requests (the funds will be deposited to employee’s account or the corporate credit card will be provided; Funds Allocation Request has to be submitted in electronic form and approved by the Supervisor; the funds will be allocated partially if the sum of a single order exceeds $5000).
:: Organize shipment of the acquired equipment to requestors by use of forwarding companies and postal services (USPS, UPS, DHL).
:: Coordinate all current activities with the Supervisor and report completed/pending orders/ shipments.
POSITION GROWTH
The employee may progress to Supply Chain Manager (full-time employment, $4000 in fixed salary monthly) if the company is satisfied with his performance and accuracy during the probation period. The main responsibilities will include:
:: Ensuring effective performance of the US based Supply Department.
:: Strategic planning of purchasing and distribution processes.
:: Managing multiple procurement projects and participating in complex contract negotiation.
:: Controlling the flow of purchase requests and coordinating activities with other departments.

Position available till April, 1 2009.

For "Supply Agent" read "reshipping donkey" or "purchase agent" whose function will be to receive stolen goods or purchase parcels with stolen funds and reship them off to these criminals in Russia or the Ukraine. Do not be tempted or you will lose a lot of money and likely end up with a criminal record to boot.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Awesome Transportation website has been set up by criminals purely for the purpose of fraudulent deception and spamvertising an illegal 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 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.

Awesome Transportation Fraudsters - current hosting details

Current Main Domains, Hosts and Registrars

Domain

awesomeltd.net

Registrar

KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH (19-Feb-2009)

Host Network

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc./websitewelcome.com

Host IP

74.54.134.114

Suspended
Active

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

DNS Data (awesomeltd.net)
How I am searching:

Searching for awesomeltd.net A record at i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to F.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for awesomeltd.net A record at F.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.35.51.30]: Got referral to ns1.host777.org. (zone: awesomeltd.net.)
Searching for awesomeltd.net A record at ns1.host777.org. [74.54.134.114]: Reports awesomeltd.net. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
awesomeltd.net.	A	IN	14400	74.54.134.114
awesomeltd.net.	NS	IN	86400	ns2.host777.org.
awesomeltd.net.	NS	IN	86400	ns1.host777.org.
ns1.host777.org.	A	IN	14400	74.54.134.114
ns2.host777.org.	A	IN	14400	74.54.134.115

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

Server	Response
ns2.host777.org [74.54.134.115]	74.54.134.114
ns1.host777.org [74.54.134.114]	74.54.134.114

The host for this criminal fraudster is ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. and RDNS data reports the IP 74.54.134.114 as laser.websitewelcome.com. The identical IP was also used for the Awesoft scam and the websitewelcome.com network was also used for the Zupazula scam - the criminal's pedigree is self evident.

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