Design Gold Group, Inc. (Stolen Identity) Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

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 Russian company. These criminals have also stolen the identity of a genuine Florida based company of the same name who, needless to say, have nothing whatsoever to do with these criminals.

Design Gold Group, Inc. (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 10-Mar-2010

Design Gold Group, Inc. (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. 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 domain designgoldgroupinc.com was only registered with the registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 09-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. 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., 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. and the The Debra Toney Companies (all stolen identity) frauds among others - this is 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 genuine Florida based company who were incorporated in 1999 and are clearly the latest victims of these serial crooks.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The Design Gold Group, Inc. (Stolen Identity) 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 domain designgoldgroupinc.com was only registered with the unresponsive MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 09-Mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud is simply an identical follow-on fraud to all their other identical aliases as listed above - 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), this fake "Design Gold Group, Inc." 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). Don't be misled by the presence for this genuine Florida based company of the same name that they have clearly stolen the identity of as is their standard serial MO - Irrefutable evidence of fraud.

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

U.S. Representative/Financial manager Job Position

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) Fake staff: This 'Team' doesn't change between aliases, (except for the name of the fake 'director'). This time the same old face is Victor Malkin, (Other identical faces from the above list of aliases have various different names as listed in the various fraud pages - clear evidence of fraud):

Team

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

N.B. - the usual MO of these criminals is to steal the identity of a genuine company, in this case a Florida based company of the same name who, needless to say, have nothing to do with these criminals.

Design Gold Group, Inc.

RUSSIAN ADDRESS
71 Suvorova st.
Moscow, 422000
Russian Federation

***The following address details are stolen and so have been converted to an image***

Fake Florida address

• - A Google search for the Russian address "71 Suvorova st. Moscow" shows no sign of these crooks.
• - A Google Maps search for the Russian address "71 Suvorova st. Moscow" returns the message "We were not able to locate the address: "71 Suvorova st. Moscow"".
• - The above Florida address is simply the address of the Florida based company whose identity they have clearly stolen.
• - A Google search for the fake DUNS number 78-538-0453 shows that it has also been used for another of the crook's aliases - Design Radiance, LLC.

ix) The Spam

This is Erica Villa. I'm recruiter of our Company. Our dept read your CV on
Hotjobs and We think that u are great candidte for the position of Financial
manager.

To obtain more info about current position, go to this page:

http://designgoldgroupinc.com/jobs.htm

This will be the nice addon to your main jo.b.

Please view links there for more information about our firm:

Certificates: http://designgoldgroupinc.com/index-12.htm
About us: http://designgoldgroupinc.com/index-11.htm

If u're ready, answer me for further info.
Thanks
Erica Villa

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the fake Design Gold Group, Inc. (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

designgoldgroupinc.com
designgoldgroup.com

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 09-Mar-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 26-feb-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

Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Domain Whois Data (These are criminal registered domains - Any personal whois details are fake or stolen and so have been redacted where necessary).

Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 09-mar-2010   Updated 09-mar-2010 Expires 09-mar-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM YNS2.YAHOO.COM

Domain Name.......... designgoldgroupinc.com
Creation Date........ 2010-03-10
Registration Date.... 2010-03-10
Expiry Date.......... 2011-03-10
Organisation Name.... ********************
Organisation Address. ********************
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Humble
Organisation Address. 77346
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... ********************
Admin Address........ ********************
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Humble
Admin Address........ 77346
Admin Address........ TX
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

Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 26-feb-2010   Updated 26-feb-2010 Expires 26-feb-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM YNS2.YAHOO.COM

Domain Name.......... designgoldgroup.com
Creation Date........ 2010-02-27
Registration Date.... 2010-02-27
Expiry Date.......... 2011-02-27
Organisation Name.... ********************
Organisation Address. ********************
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Whitehall
Organisation Address. 18052
Organisation Address. PA
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... ********************
Admin Address........ ********************
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Whitehall
Admin Address........ 18052
Admin Address........ PA
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... mariagomez123483@yahoo.com
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: designgoldgroupinc.com A record (Also valid for designgoldgroup.com)
Searching for designgoldgroupinc.com A record at c.root-servers.net [192.33.4.12]: Got referral to C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for designgoldgroupinc.com A record at C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: designgoldgroupinc.com.)
Searching for designgoldgroupinc.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports designgoldgroupinc.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
designgoldgroupinc.com.	A	IN	1200	69.147.83.187
designgoldgroupinc.com.	A	IN	1200	98.136.50.138
designgoldgroupinc.com.	A	IN	1200	69.147.83.188
designgoldgroupinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
designgoldgroupinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
designgoldgroupinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
designgoldgroupinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.

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

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

***Latest News*** 10th. March 2010
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 11th. March 2010
Yahoo have disabled the domains designgoldgroupinc.com and designgoldgroup.com. Their response does seem to be improving, but it is nowhere near fast enough to discourage thse crooks from using their services and from past experience, there is no guarantee that the domains will stay disabled. Please notify me of any active domains for these criminals.