Crampton Investments

Crampton Investments Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Crampton Investments Electronic Company is just another run-of-the mill fake Russian financial site that exists solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. The website contains a clear money mule solicitation and clear evidence that this website was set up very recently, (the website domain cramptoninvestment.com was registered on April 22nd. 2008), purely for the purposes of solicitation for money laundering purposes. Textual similarities link this fraudster to the King Finance fraud and others.

This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the above website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this company alone and no other.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) According to the Crampton Investments Electronic Company website home page above: "Founded in 2004, CRAMPTON INVESTMENTS Electronic Company is a group of internet commerce companies united in one corporation" However, the criminal's domain cramptoninvestment.com was only registered with ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU on 22-Apr-2008. Clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation

ii) The company makes the following ludicrous claims above: "More than 5000 payment processing managers work for us today only in the USA, more than 2200 - in United Kingdom and New Zealand. Total money turnover carried out through CRAMPTON INVESTMENTS Electronic Company exceeded $100,000,000 last year." However, a Google search for "Crampton Investments Electronic Company" shows no internet presence whatsoever. Clear evidence that their claims are bogus.

iii) The website carries the following clear money mule criminal solicitation under the 'Employment' tab:

EMPLOYMENT

Take advantages of payment processing management!

Your task as a payment processing manager will consist in transferring payments from one of our clients to another. Due to the fact that our company works in securities market, we constantly buy and sell payments, so you will work with this money. Your profit depends on how fast money circulates in the world transaction . You have nothing to loose while doing this one-click job. Upon your registration we transfer you a sum of money that enters on your bank account. After receiving the money you have to notify us via email. The faster you send the money further, the higher number of transfers to process you get. If you work successfully, your status in our transfer rises from 'beginner PPM' to 'advanced PPM' level and higher(you will receive more than 5-7 transfers per week).

Example: You receive a transfer of $5000. Your commission will be 8% of $5000 make $400. So you need to send us $5000 - $400 = $4600. You will receive our detailed instructions for every payment(how to send , where to send etc.) AI Customer levels:

* BPPM - Beginner (8%) If you are a new user you immediately receive an advance sum of money on your account. Beginner Customer receives 8% of a sum of transfer. Number of transfers per week - 2-4

* IPPM - Intermediate (9%) You can reach the level after 10 money transfers. Number of transfers per week - 4-5

* APPM - Advanced (10%) You receive the status after upon reaching a sum of total transfers exceeding $30,000. Number of transfers per week - 5 and more per week All you need for the job of payment processing manager is having one or several bank accounts, computer and a little of spare time. Since our business is permanently growing, we constantly need new reliable PP managers. The method of collaborating with distant online transfer staff has proved to be profitable both for our company and the workers. We invite you to join our team and try this new, safe and easy way to make money. Get the well paid job with constant increasing interest rate!

Crampton Investments Electronic Company is greeting you. Our company is being extended and we need new partners. We are very interested in new workers, and we are always glad to take responsible people on this work. To get a job in our company, you should go through a registration. After your registration our managers prefer your information and during 24 hours you will get a message on your e-mail and you should confirm your registration. If you do not confirm your registration, you will not be taken on the work!!!!! After that, when you confirm your registration, your personal manager for work with partners will connect with you. We wish you to make a good career in our company. Crampton Investments Electronic Company.

iv) That is a crystal clear illegal money mule function and on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus

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

vi) They have no physical location details or even telephone details on their 'Contact Us' page - the only means of communicating with them is via a webform, however in their FAQs they have exactly the same fake address and registration numbers that they used for their King Finance, GilorUS LTD, and Eastern Finance Group scams, i.e: "Our US address is: King Finance Group 104 6th Street Lynden, WA 98264 United States We are registered with S.W.I.F.T Registration number: 4198NP00ND License number(FSO - Financial Services Operator): 253400033802" The address Googles as a health clinic complex and the registration numbers are bogus. Evidence - Google for 4198NP00ND

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Crampton Investments Electronic Company website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals 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 activity - 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.

Known Website Domains

cramptoninvestment.com (Suspended)
cramptoninvestments.com (Suspended)

Registrar

ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU (22-Apr-2008).
Estdomains (BEST-HOSTER.RU) (16-Jun-2008)

Network Data

(Valid for domain cramptoninvestment.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for cramptoninvestment.com A record at d.root-servers.net [128.8.10.90]: Got referral to F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for cramptoninvestment.com A record at F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.35.51.30]: Got referral to ns3.nic.ru. (zone: cramptoninvestment.com.)
Searching for cramptoninvestment.com A record at ns3.nic.ru. [194.85.61.20]: Reports cramptoninvestment.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
cramptoninvestment.com.	A	IN	86400	194.85.89.2
cramptoninvestment.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns3.nic.ru.
cramptoninvestment.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns4.nic.ru.
cramptoninvestment.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.nic.ru.
ns3.nic.ru.	A	IN	80405	194.85.61.20
ns4.nic.ru.	A	IN	80405	194.226.96.8
ns8.nic.ru.	A	IN	80405	193.232.130.14

Looking up at the 3 cramptoninvestment.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns8.nic.ru [193.232.130.14]	194.85.89.2
ns4.nic.ru [194.226.96.8]	194.85.89.2
ns3.nic.ru [194.85.61.20]	194.85.89.2

The criminal's host is listed as RU-NIC-HOSTING - 194.85.89.2

Spam:

Greetings!
You have financial problems? You work much but earn not enough? Or You are
unemployed? Don't waste time, write to our support service and we will in
detail tell You about our proposal. We look for active, purposeful people
and people, whose aim is material well-being. Your income will completely
depends only on You and usually it makes up from 500$ to 5000$ a week. You
will have a time for private life. And at the same time You will earn much
more, than You have ever earned!

For more detailed information visit our site:
http://cramptoninvestments.com

If you want to become our partner, registration on the site:
http://cramptoninvestments.com/site.php?module=register/newuser

Best regards,
CRAMPTON INVESTMENTS Electronic Company

Fraud Log

10th. May 2008
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 26th. May 2008

Domain cramptoninvestment.com suspended - no known live domains - please let me know of any.

***Latest News*** 26th. Jun 2008
New criminal domain notified by site contact - cramptoninvestments.com registered with Estdomains (BEST-HOSTER.RU) on 16-Jun-2008 and hosted on the following network:
Network Data

(Valid for domain cramptoninvestments.com)
How I am searching:

Searching for cramptoninvestments.com A record at b.root-servers.net [192.228.79.201]: Got referral to C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for cramptoninvestments.com A record at C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to ns24.dns-rus.net. (zone: cramptoninvestments.com.)
Searching for cramptoninvestments.com A record at ns24.dns-rus.net. [92.243.64.229]: Reports cramptoninvestments.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
cramptoninvestments.com.	A	IN	14400	77.221.158.10
cramptoninvestments.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns24.dns-rus.net.
cramptoninvestments.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns23.dns-rus.net.
ns23.dns-rus.net.	A	IN	14400	77.221.158.10
ns24.dns-rus.net.	A	IN	14400	92.243.64.229

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

Server	Response	Time
ns24.dns-rus.net [92.243.64.229]	77.221.158.10	200ms
ns23.dns-rus.net [77.221.158.10]	77.221.158.10	174ms

The criminal's domain cramptoninvestments.com is hosted by DATAPOINT-NET4 (Infobox.ru) on IP 77.221.158.10

***Latest News*** 27th. Jun 2008
Estdomains have suspended the domain cramptoninvestments.com - no known live domains - please let me know of any.