DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C scam

DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C screenshot 21-Jul-2009

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.

DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C 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 designbuildinnovations.com was only registered with the unresponsive pairing of MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 01-Jul-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 and others - this is clearly a serial fraudster and clear evidence of fraud in itself.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) This 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 designbuildinnovations.com was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 01-Jul-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 among others - clear evidence of a serial fraudster.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C have no Google internet presence at all, (ignoring their own fake website, of course). There are other clearly different companies with the same name, probably why the crooks chose it - clear evidence of a fake company.

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

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 so-called director, this time it's Zuvev Ury Gennadevich for a change):
DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C Team

viii) They have no location or contact details on their website 'Contact page' at all - simply a webform. That's hardly credible for a so-called trading company.

ix) The Spam:

We are looking for people who can control the payment of our customers from your state / region. The responsibilities of work included compiling monthly reports on the overall turnover of funds, sending documents on each transfer. We offer you confidentially as you conduct a search to meet your career goals and we can help you to understand and communicate what makes you stand out in a crowd. My role is to find the best candidates to meet the needs of my clients. You could be just the person I'm looking for. This email was sent to xxxxxxxxxx by hiringdepartmentdbiinc@gmail.com. Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Hiring Department of DesBuildInnovations | 2234 Elm Street | COLUMBUS | IN |

Try a Google Search for "We are looking for people who can control the payment of our customers from your state / region" to see more aliases of this crook.

If you reply to the above spam requesting more information you get the following back:

From: Chad Walker <manager.designbuildinnovations@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Subject: Re[2]: Dear Jobseeker

Dear xxxxxx,
This is Chad Walker. You have successfully completed the first stage of recruiting process.
However, there are more of them including the following checks that our
HR department will carry out:
-       your criminal record
-       your track record with previous employers
-       reliability of information you provided
(your name, place of residing, contact phone numbers).
In order to perform these checks we need you to submit us the
following information ASAP:
-       a copy of your signed Employment Agreement
-       a copy of your signed Employment Application
Please fill that documents, sign and sent me the copies.
You may send a copy of of your signed Employment Agreement and
Employment Application two ways:
   1. To my Fax: (909)382-9912
                  OR
        2. You scan this document and after that you send it to my e-mail.
I once again want to explain why we need an 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 transfer
3. Certified funds

-Type of Employment:

Agreement.

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

-Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week

To sum it up, your next step for getting the position with our company is submitting
the requested information for verification purposes.
We already have some 10 applicants and the time limit is short, so please
do your best to provide it ASAP.
Your application will be automatically voided if you fail to submit
the requested documents within two business days.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Yours faithfully,
Personal Manager
Chad Walker

Web-site: www.designbuildinnovations.com

Personal e-mail box: manager.designbuildinnovations@gmail.com

Tel: 1(919)709-0277

Fax: 1(909)382-9912

x) The phone number 1(919)709-0277 locates to Fremont NC. The Fax. number 1(909)382-9912, (which is a genuine number used by the criminals to accept faxed documents from the prospective mules), locates to San Bernardino, CA - they must have a big office.

xi) A Google search for the Fax. number (909)382-9912 shows that it has also been used by the EuroHouse Limited scammer and the Star Travel scammer, (that Yahoo continue to shelter), among others. All clear evidence of fraud.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C 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 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

designbuildinnovations.com
designbuildinnovations.net

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 01-Jul-2009
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 03-Aug-2009

Host

AltaVista Company (Yahoo) (216.39.57.104)
AltaVista Company (Yahoo) (216.39.57.104)

Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Network Data (Valid for domain designbuildinnovations.com)

DNS Lookup: designbuildinnovations.com A record (Also valid for designbuildinnovations.net)
Searching for designbuildinnovations.com A record at d.root-servers.net [128.8.10.90]: Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for designbuildinnovations.com A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: designbuildinnovations.com.)
Searching for designbuildinnovations.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports designbuildinnovations.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
designbuildinnovations.com.	A	IN	1200	216.39.57.104
designbuildinnovations.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
designbuildinnovations.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
designbuildinnovations.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
designbuildinnovations.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.

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

Server	Response
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	216.39.57.104
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	216.39.57.104

The criminal's host is listed as Alta Vista (Yahoo), on IP address 216.39.57.104. Based on previous experience both Melbourne IT and Yahoo will not act on reports of criminal activity in a timely manner so this one could run and run like all the rest of this crook's aliases and generate thousands of unnecessary victims in the process.

***Latest News*** 21st. July 2009
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 27th. July 2009
News from Simon Bear - Yahoo have disabled the domain designbuildinnovations.com. Please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.

***Latest News*** 12th. August 2009
New domain noted for this criminal - designbuildinnovations.net registered as per usual with Melbourne IT (Yahoo as reseller) on 03-Aug-2009 and hosted on the above Yahoo network