DESIGN to PERFORM scam

DESIGN to PERFORM Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

DESIGN to PERFORM screenshot 28-May-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 to PERFORM 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 designperforminc.com was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-May-2009) 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. and First Design Group - this is clearly a serial fraudster.

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 designperforminc.com was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-May-2009 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 and First Design Group. - clear evidence of a serial fraudster.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, DESIGN to PERFORM have no Google internet presence at all, (apart from their own fake website, of course) - 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.

If you are interested in this position, please fill in the registration form:

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):
Design to perform Team

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the DESIGN to PERFORM 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

designperforminc.com
design2performinc.com
design2perform-inc.com
designtoperforminc.com

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 15-May-2009
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 02-Jun-2009
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 22-Jun-2009
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 25-May-2009

Host

AltaVista Company (Yahoo) (216.39.62.192)
AltaVista Company (Yahoo) (216.39.57.104)
Yahoo ( 68.180.151.74)
AltaVista Company (Yahoo) (216.39.57.104)

Key:

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Network Data (Valid for domain design2performinc.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for designperforminc.com A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for designperforminc.com A record at D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.31.80.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: designperforminc.com.)
Searching for designperforminc.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports designperforminc.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
designperforminc.com.	A	IN	1200	216.39.62.192
designperforminc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
designperforminc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
designperforminc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
designperforminc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.

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

Server	Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	216.39.62.192
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	216.39.62.192

The criminal's host is listed as Alta Vista (Yahoo), presumably another of their "small business networks" so well used by these criminals.

***Latest News*** 28th. May 2009
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 4th. Jun 2009
Yahoo have disabled the domain designperforminc.com.
New domain notified by site contact - design2performinc.com. For some reason the criminals have altered the home page text From 'Design to Perform' to 'Design 2 perform'. It's the same old scam, though and it's still hosted on the above network.

***Latest News*** 27th. Jun 2009
As per usual, Yahoo have failed to take any action on the Melbourne IT/Yahoo registered domain design2performinc.com (reported 04-Jun-2009) and now the criminal has another new Melbourne IT/Yahoo registered domain to add to the list - design2perform-inc.com. Yet another criminal domain for Yahoo to ignore, I suppose - they also refuse to respond with an 'action taken' notice on bogus 'confidentiality' grounds. Hosted on the following network:

DNS Lookup: design2perform-inc.com A record
Searching for design2perform-inc.com A record at h.root-servers.net [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to k.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for design2perform-inc.com A record at k.gtld-servers.net. [192.52.178.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: design2perform-inc.com.)
Searching for design2perform-inc.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports design2perform-inc.com
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
design2perform-inc.com.	A	IN	1200	68.180.151.74
design2perform-inc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
design2perform-inc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
design2perform-inc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
design2perform-inc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 design2perform-inc.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	68.180.151.74
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	68.180.151.74

The host of this criminal fraudster is Yahoo networks on IP address 68.180.151.74

The hosting of the domain design2performinc.com has been transferred to the following network:

DNS Lookup: design2performinc.com A record (Also valid for designtoperforminc.com)
Searching for design2performinc.com A record at h.root-servers.net [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to g.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for design2performinc.com A record at g.gtld-servers.net. [192.42.93.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: design2performinc.com.)
Searching for design2performinc.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports design2performinc.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
design2performinc.com.	A	IN	1200	216.39.57.104
design2performinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.
design2performinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
design2performinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
design2performinc.com.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 design2performinc.com. parent servers:

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

The host of this criminal fraudster's domain is AltaVista Company(Yahoo) on IP address 216.39.57.104

***Latest News*** 20th. Jul 2009
These crooks are still going strong courtesy of Yahoo aiding and abetting criminal fraud, (the domain design2performinc.com was reported on the 4th. of June and again on the 27th. of June, (also copied to Melbourne IT who also take no notice). Neither company shows any regard for the law or for the victims of these fraudsters by continuing to knowingly supply both domains and hosting to these criminals.
Another active domain reported by site contact, (although with criminal associates like Yahoo and Melbourne IT they really don't need one), designtoperforminc.com. I'd report it, but it is clearly a waste of time.