Design 2 Fit, LLC (Stolen Identity) Fraud
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This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this fake company alone and no other. The website has been stolen from a genuine US company. As is their usual MO, these criminals have stolen the identity of this Florida based company of the same name who are also victims of these criminals, (confirmed by the genuine company owner).
Design 2 Fit, LLC (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 12-Mar-2010
Design 2 Fit, LLC (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 12-Mar-2010

Design 2 Fit, LLC (Stolen Identity) is just the latest of the numerous fake Russian serial scam sites that exist solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. They have a new template and the complete content of their fraud website has now quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company and modified to suit this criminal's purposes, in particular the addition of a 'Careers' menu option that doesn't exist on the genuine website and leads to the criminal's money mule job. The fake website was only recently set up, (for instance, the domain design2fitllc.us was only registered with the registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 12-Mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year) and contains a clear money mule solicitation of U.S. Representative/Financial manager under the Careers tab. Their other previous, (identical job), fraud aliases are/were Vidal Architects, Inc, Design Resources, Inc, Design Build Studio, Inc, Design 2 Studio LLC., First Design Group, Design to Perform, DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C, N Design Studio, Inc, Euro-Design Corp, The Design Studio, LLC (The Desugn Studio, LLC), DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc., International Design Center, LLC, HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC., Design & Promotions Corporation, The Design Agency, LLC, Design Products Inc., DESIGN +, INC., DESIGN ACCENTS, INC., International Design Source, Inc, Design For You llc, Design Engineering, INC, DESIGN FORCE, LLC, DESIGN FACTORY INC., DesignNext, Advanced Design Services, Inc,  DESIGN EXTENSIONS, LLC, Design Group 7 Inc, VERO DESIGN, INC., DOROSINSKI, CAMPBELL DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC., L&D INTERIOR DESIGN, INC., Aqualine Design, Inc., The Debra Toney Companies, Design Radiance, LLC. and the Design Gold Group, Inc. (all stolen identity) frauds among others. They have a new stolen template as evidenced, but this is still clearly a serial fraudster which is clear evidence of fraud in itself. As per their usual MO, these criminals have stolen the identity of this Florida based company, (confirmed with the company owner), who are nothing to do with these criminals - they are equally victims of them.
Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The Design 2 Fit, LLC (Stolen Identity) criminal's website has quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company, so any claims made in it are not relevant to the criminals, although they do carry the claim "Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world" under this 'Careers' menu option. However, the fact that their domain design2fitllc.us was only registered with the unresponsive MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 12-Mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud has a new stolen template from this company, but it is simply an identical follow-on money-mule fraud to all their other identical aliases as listed above.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, (as evidenced below), this fake "Design 2 Fit, LLC" have no genuine Google internet presence at all in their own right, (ignoring their own fake multiple websites, of course - you'd expect to find them) - Irrefutable evidence of fraud.

iv) The payload of the fake website is the following crystal clear money mule criminal solicitation under the Careers tab:
Careers

U.S. Representative/Financial Manager Job Position

Job Summary:

Type of Employment: Agreement
Job Type: Part Time (2-4 hours per week)
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Salary: $60,000-$80,000.00 /year
Location: Any ( at home on free time)
This could be the perfect complement to your current job.

About Company:

Our company primarily deals in design activities for corporate and residential ground plans. Our business unit is experienced in both creation and implementation of plans conceived.

    * Accommodations
    * Premises design

Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world. Although we are currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the arms of our innovation have reached the four corners of the planet. We maintain a direct and diligent marketing process in the United States, and repeatedly offer services that are ahead of the industry “curve” in both pricing and quality. Our advantages lay in certain benefits our Europen clientele experience that only an overseas company can provide:

   1. We are able to offer similar products for lower than standard pricing; we are able to cheaply staff our Moscow office
   2. Our Home Office is staffed with industry experts with over 8 decades of combined experience

Why do we need U.S. Representative/Financial manager?

When we initially started operations in the United States, we experienced some issues with US trade laws that can be summarized into two different problems:

   1. All financial services operations have to take place inside the USA
   2. Customers cannot make payments to a company don’t have offices inside the US, even if the company is an industry leader around the world. Our Home Office is located in Russia, which is why customers are not able to directly transfer money (payments for our designs) to our office in Russia. Under US law, the funds must be deposited into the account of the Financial Manager of Staffing Solutions that resides in the USA. Then, it is the Financial Manager’s responsibility to transfer the funds to our business in Russia. The company has to be registered in the US tax administration, which we have already finished. By maintaining a Financial Manager in the US, we are able to solve both of these problems and continue to help the companies that need us in the USA.

Main duties include receiving payments from customers:

   1. Bank checks
   2. Wire transfers
   3. Certified funds


Compensation:

The Financial Manager will be entitled to 5% of all completed transactions. The maximum turnover handled by a single manager is limited the by company’s policy and is set at $100,000 per month. Thus the maximum monthly pay will constitute $3,000-5,000.

Type of Employment:

Agreement

Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week

Important:

We also have a business proposal for US company owners and managing directors. Private US businesses can accept funds from our customers with no limitations with a monthly turnover of up to 500,000.00 US dollars. Their profit is set at 7.5% of the turnover and may constitute $40,000.00 monthly. Please apply if you have a legal running business and are interested in this offer.

You can combine this job with your current job, because you'll spend no more than 3 hours per week. This job can become perfect addition to your current job.
v) It is the identical job to all of their previous aliases. You do not get a much clearer definition of the illegal 'part time' money mule function of receiving stolen funds to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals via Western Union or Moneygram which on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus and is clear evidence of criminal fraud. The potential for absolutely massive fraud is self evident from the "business proposal for US company owners".

vi) 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. The additional 'business proposal' shows the potential sheer scale of this criminal fraud operation - don't be part of it or you will lose a lot of money and perhaps your liberty.
vii) Fake staff: They have a new 'Team' which previously didn't change between aliases, apart from the fake manager. This time the new face is Kramarenko Sergey Nikolaevich:
Anyone know where the photographs have been stolen from?

Team

viii) Another identical alias, another set of fake contact Details & fake certificates for this serial criminal from their 'Business Licence' page:

N.B. - Once again, (they do it every time), they have stolen the identity of a genuine company, in this case a Florida based company of the same name who have nothing to do with these criminals. (Confirmed with company owner).

 Design 2 Fit, LLC

RUSSIAN ADDRESS
65 Krasnarmeyskaya st.
Moscow, 422005
Russian Federation  

N.B. This is the address of a genuine company so has been converted to an image:

stolen address details

 • - A Google search for the Russian address "65 Krasnarmeyskaya st. Moscow" shows no sign of these crooks.
 • - A Google Maps search for the Russian address "65 Krasnarmeyskaya st. Moscow" returns the message: "We were not able to locate the address:"65 Krasnarmeyskaya st. Moscow"" - it appears to be fake.
• - The above Florida address is simply the address of the Florida based company whose identity they have stolen - this has been confirmed with the company owner.
• - A Google search for the fake DUNS number 78-738-0807 shows that it has also been used for another of the crook's aliases - Design Radiance, LLC and many others All clear evidence of fake details and fraud.
ix) The Spam
Financial Manager post: xxxxxxx
Friday, March 12, 2010
From: "Design 2 Fit, LLC" <manager@design2fitllc.us>

Dear xxxxxxxxx,
I am Karen Branson. I am recruiter of our Co. I read your CV on
Yahoo!HotJobs so Our dept think that you good candidacy for the position of
US Financial Managr.

To find more information about available position, visit this website:

http://design2fitllc.us/career.html

If u're interested, e-mail me for more information.
Faithfully
Karen Branson
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the fake Design 2 Fit, LLC (stolen Identity) website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job of receiving 'customer's payments' to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals. 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 serial 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

design2fitllc.us
design2fitllc.com

 		Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 12-Mar-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 05-Mar-2010
 Host

Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
  
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Domain Whois Data (These are criminal registered domains - Any personal whois details are fake or stolen and so have been redacted where necessary).
Domain Name:                                 DESIGN2FITLLC.US
Domain ID:                                   D26790267-US
Sponsoring Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Registrar URL (registration services):       whois.inww.com
Domain Status:                               clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:                               F126840200706986
Registrant Name:                             ********************
Registrant Organization:                     ********************
Registrant Address1:                         P.o. Box 141
Registrant City:                             Elkwood
Registrant State/Province:                   VA
Registrant Postal Code:                      22718
Registrant Country:                          United States
Registrant Country Code:                     US
Registrant Phone Number:                     +1.7032206156
Registrant Email:                            ********************
Registrant Application Purpose:              P3
Registrant Nexus Category:                   C11
Administrative Contact ID:                   F126840200706982
Administrative Contact Name:                 ********************
Administrative Contact Organization:         ********************
Administrative Contact Address1:             P.o. Box 141
Administrative Contact City:                 Elkwood
Administrative Contact State/Province:       VA
Administrative Contact Postal Code:          22718
Administrative Contact Country:              United States
Administrative Contact Country Code:         US
Administrative Contact Phone Number:         ********************
Administrative Contact Email:                ********************
Billing Contact ID:                          H126840270569475
Billing Contact Name:                        YahooDomains BillingContact
Billing Contact Organization:                Yahoo! Inc
Billing Contact Address1:                    701 First Ave.
Billing Contact City:                        Sunnyvale
Billing Contact State/Province:              CA
Billing Contact Postal Code:                 94089
Billing Contact Country:                     United States
Billing Contact Country Code:                US
Billing Contact Phone Number:                +1.4089162124
Billing Contact Email:                       domain.billing@yahoo-inc.com
Technical Contact ID:                        F126840200706984
Technical Contact Name:                      YahooDomains TechContact
Technical Contact Organization:              Yahoo! Inc
Technical Contact Address1:                  701 First Ave.
Technical Contact City:                      Sunnyvale
Technical Contact State/Province:            CA
Technical Contact Postal Code:               94089
Technical Contact Country:                   United States
Technical Contact Country Code:              US
Technical Contact Phone Number:              +1.4089162124
Technical Contact Email:                     domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
Name Server:                                 YNS1.YAHOO.COM
Name Server:                                 YNS2.YAHOO.COM
Created by Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Last Updated by Registrar:                   MELBOURNE IT LTD
Domain Registration Date:                    Fri Mar 12 14:30:12 GMT 2010
Domain Expiration Date:                      Fri Mar 11 23:59:59 GMT 2011
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Fri Mar 12 14:30:14 GMT 2010
 		Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 05-mar-2010   Updated 05-mar-2010  Expires 05-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

Domain Name.......... design2fitllc.com
  Creation Date........ 2010-03-06
  Registration Date.... 2010-03-06
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-03-06
  Organisation Name.... ********************
  Organisation Address. ********************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. Wrightstown
  Organisation Address. 08562
  Organisation Address. NJ
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... ********************
  Admin Address........ ********************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ Wrightstown
  Admin Address........ 08562
  Admin Address........ NJ
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... ********************
  Admin Phone.......... ********************
  Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
  Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
  Tech Address.........
  Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
  Tech Address......... 94089
  Tech Address......... CA
  Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
  Tech Email........... domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
  Tech Phone........... +1.4089162124
  Tech Fax.............
  Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
  Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
DNS Lookup: design2fitllc.us A record (Also valid for design2fitllc.com)
Searching for design2fitllc.us A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to B.GTLD.BIZ. (zone: us.)
Searching for design2fitllc.us A record at B.GTLD.BIZ. [209.173.57.162]: Got referral to YNS1.YAHOO.COM. (zone: design2fitllc.us.)
Searching for design2fitllc.us A record at YNS1.YAHOO.COM. [98.136.43.32]: Reports design2fitllc.us.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
design2fitllc.us. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
design2fitllc.us. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
design2fitllc.us. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
design2fitllc.us. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
design2fitllc.us. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
design2fitllc.us. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
design2fitllc.us. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 design2fitllc.us. parent servers:

Server Response
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is the usual Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138. This IP range is the usual host for many of these criminals. Unfortunately Yahoo have a history of ignoring reports, reporting they've acted when they haven't, reinstating criminal domains and refusing to report when they've taken action so the criminals continue to favour them
***Latest News*** 12th. March 2010
Webpage created
***Latest News*** 19th. March 2010
News from Derek bear - the domains design2fitllc.us and design2fitllc.com have been disabled - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.