Design & Promotions Corporation scam

Design & Promotions Corporation Fraud (Stolen Identity)

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

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. The above website has been stolen from a genuine company and the criminals have also assumed the name of another genuine Florida company who are clearly nothing to do with these criminals - it is their usual modus operandi.

Design & Promotions Corporation screenshot 16-Oct-2009

Design & Promotions Corporation is just one of the numerous fake Russian scam sites that exist solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. The complete fraud website content has quite clearly been stolen from the verified genuine Russian company Home Design 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 initial domain despromcorp.com was only registered with the unresponsive registrars MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 29-sep-2009 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. Notice the illiterate line in the above screenshot "a member of the Europen Chamber of Commerce" - the 'Runglish' style of poor English and grammar is a common thread of these Russian criminals. Their other identical 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. and the Design Pro Screens, Inc., International Design Center, LLC and the HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC. fraud among others - this is clearly a serial fraudster which is clear evidence of fraud in itself. As per usual, they have stolen the identity of a genuine US (Florida) company.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The Design & Promotions Corporation criminal's website has quite clearly been stolen from the genuine genuine Russian company Home Design 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 initial domain despromcorp.com was only registered with the unresponsive on MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on the 29-sep-2009 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud is simply a follow-on fraud to all their other aliases, including 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. and the HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC. fraud - clear evidence of a serial fraudster.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, (as evidenced below), "Design & Promotions Corporation" have no genuine Google internet presence at all, (ignoring their own fake website, of course). Don't be fooled by the fact that they have stolen the name of this genuine Florida company who they are clearly nothing to do with - it is their standard modus operandi - see their previous aliases.

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

U.S. Representative/Financial manager 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) 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) This 'Team' doesn't change between aliases, (except for the name of the fake 'director', this time the identical face is Zuvev Ury Gennadevich, (the same as his HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC. alias. Other aliases from the above list have various other names - clear evidence of fraud):

Team photo

viii) They have no location or contact details on their website contact page at all - simply a webform. Not the sign of a genuine company, I would suggest.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Design & Promotions Corporation 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

despromcorp.com

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 29-Sep-2009

Host

Yahoo on IP address 98.136.92.79

Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Domain Whois Data

   Domain Name: despromcorp.com
Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 29-sep-2009   Updated 29-sep-2009 Expires 29-sep-2010
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM YNS2.YAHOO.COM

Domain Name.......... despromcorp.com
Creation Date........ 2009-09-30
Registration Date.... 2009-09-30
Expiry Date.......... 2010-09-30
Organisation Name.... Stephanie Fragale
Organisation Address. PO Box 61359
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Sunnyvale
Organisation Address. 94088
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. US

Admin Name........... Admin PrivateRegContact
Admin Address........ PO Box 61359
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Sunnyvale
Admin Address........ 94088
Admin Address........ CA
Admin Address........ US
Admin Email.......... contact@myprivateregistration.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.5105952002
Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ TECH PrivateRegContact
Tech Address......... PO Box 61359
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94088
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... US
Tech Email........... contact@myprivateregistration.com
Tech Phone........... +1.5105952002
Tech Fax.............
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com

Network Data (Valid for domain despromcorp.com)

DNS Lookup: despromcorp.com A record
Searching for despromcorp.com A record at j.root-servers.net [192.58.128.30]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for despromcorp.com A record at D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.31.80.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: despromcorp.com.)
Searching for despromcorp.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports despromcorp.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
despromcorp.com.	A	IN	1200	98.136.92.79
despromcorp.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
despromcorp.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
despromcorp.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
despromcorp.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.

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

Server	Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	98.136.92.79
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	98.136.92.79

The criminal's host is listed as Yahoo on IP address 98.136.92.79 - the same IP as his previous aliases - DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc., International Design Center, LLC, and the HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC. fraud.

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