Electronics Distribution Group

Electronics Distribution Group Fraud

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Electronics Distribution Group fraud screenshot

Electronics Distribution Group is a pretty standard money laundering mule recruiting website which they make obvious by advertising a clear money mule job of receiving payments into your account and transferring them back out by Moneygram/Western Union which is the clearly defined illegal money mule function that will get your bank account and all your assets frozen and get you a visit from the police - don't get involved. It is an identical follow up fraud to the Global Financial Group scam.

This fraudster should not be confused with any of several legitimate companies of the same or similar name - the above website graphics and the included money laundering job clearly identify the fake website and these fraudsters.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) They are advertising the following clear work from home illegal 'money mule' job of 'Correspondence Assistant/Manager' under the Vacancy tab on their website as follows:

JOB DESCRIPTION

Electronics Distribution Group is a financial services holding company that has emerged as an industry leader, providing diverse investment products and credit services to consumers and businesses nationwide.

Electronics Distribution Group has the following excellent and challenging employment opportunity for a highly motivated and innovative individual to work in our International Mailing Services (IMS) Department.

Electronics Distribution Group is seeking a Correspondence Assistant/Manager for the International Mailing Services (IMS) Department.

Under general supervision, he/she is responsible for assisting in the daily operations of Electronics Distribution Group.

Interfaces with Internet Payment Services (PayPal) to ensure timely movement and processing of payments. Correspondence Assistant/Manager will be responsible for managing the process of receiving and processing of payments Electronics Distribution Group. Willing to work flexible schedule, including Saturday.

Candidates responding to this posting must currently possess the eligibility to work in the United States.

Skills/Attributes:
• PC
• Productivity
• Energy Level
• Organization skills
• Multi-tasking

Correspondence Assistant/Manager Essential Functions:
• Receive the Internet PayPal payments from our clients.
• Report to the supervising manager (you will receive an e-mail instruction for each money transfer).
• Cash the PayPal payments and report to the supervising manager.
• Transfer the money funds to the representative of the company.

Please read PART I, follow asks to be hired.

PART I

      Yours position short overview:
      The main Correspondence Assistant/Manager goals are to help company's clients in receiving, proceeding and transferring client's funds to destination place if required.

      Electronics Distribution Group suppliers provide our procurement department with different types of equipment for our business and personal needs, you will manage our Internet payments: receive, cashing, transfer of the money resources to the representative of the company.

      Correspondence Assistant/Manager is home based and highly paid job, we don't economize on salary — employees are main capital of our company.
      We pay salary be-monthly, on the 1st and 16th of each month. The employee gets $1,800 United States dollars on the 1st of each month and $1,800 Unites States dollars on the 16th of each month.

      It takes 2-5 business days to be hired and start earning.
      The first month working in our team you should show us your skills and experiences. First salary, $3,600 United States dollars plus bonus, the employee will receive by the 28th day after worker receives their first assignment and informs us about performance.

PART II
In order to get a post it is necessary for You to make following steps

   1. To register
   2. To fill in all necessary documents in section Documents (to unpack it if document demands)
   3. To write a letter to the coordinator. In which You inform about your readiness to work.

There can be no argument about the criminal nature of that advertised 'job' - it is the clear and well documented 'money mule' function of accepting payments into a private account and transferring them back out using Moneygram or Western Union.
No legitimate company would advertise for private citizens to do such a part-time illegal job working from home exchanging money, it is clear evidence that the company is both bogus and criminal.

ii) The layout, graphics and text are identical to their previous fraud alias - Global Financial Group - clear evidence of criminal fraud.

iii) They make the claim on their website "Electronics Distribution Group is a financial services holding company that has emerged as an industry leader". This is quite apparently a lie as they have no internet presence whatsoever, apart from recognition as spammers and scammers by fraud sites

iv) Their website domain ed-group.net was only registered with Estdomains (ZEROHOST) on 23-jun-2008 so according to their claim they have become an "industry leader" in a few weeks - a patently nonsensical claim - clear evidence of fraud.

v) They claim on the above screenshot to have opened the post of 'Correspondence Assistant/Manager' on June the 18th. 2008, but the website domain wasn't even registered until June the 23rd. - clear evidence of fraud.

vi) They have an agreement Word document posted here on their website. It is supposedly signed by one "Darius Sielicki" but the actual signature is totally different, viz:

It is the identical agreement posted for the Global Financial Group scam, including the same bogus "Darius Sielicki". - clear evidence of fraud.

vii) Bogus Site Contact Details:

ELECTRONICS DISTRIBUTION GROUP
43 DMITROVSKAYA ST.
KIEV, 25700
UKRAINE

The postcode 25700 is totally wrong - it is for the 'Kirovohrad Oblast' region of Ukraine - a totally different region to the Kiev region. The correct postcode for that address is 01054. Clear evidence of fraud.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the Electronics Distribution Group website is a fraudulent website set up with intent to deceive. 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 fraud - please don't delay - these criminals will not respond to any communication from you, (all their whois data is invariably 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.

Electronics Distribution Group Fraudsters - current hosting details

Current Main Domains, Hosts and Registrars

Domain

ed-group.net

Registrar

Estdomains (ZEROHOST) 23-Jun-2008

Host Network

HostPro hosting

Host IP

62.149.18.151

Suspended

Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.

DNS Data (ed-group.net)
How I am searching:

Searching for ed-group.net A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for ed-group.net A record at C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to master.hostsila.com. (zone: ed-group.net.)
Searching for ed-group.net A record at master.hostsila.com. [213.186.126.7]: Reports ed-group.net. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
ed-group.net.	A	IN	14400	62.149.18.151
ed-group.net.	NS	IN	86400	slave.hostsila.net.
ed-group.net.	NS	IN	86400	master.hostsila.com.
slave.hostsila.net.	A	IN	14400	213.186.126.34
master.hostsila.com.	A	IN	14400	213.186.126.34

Looking up at the 2 ed-group.net. parent servers:

Server	Response
slave.hostsila.net [65.110.46.135]	62.149.18.151
master.hostsila.com [213.186.126.7]	62.149.18.151

The host for this criminal is HostPro hosting of Kiev on IP address 62.149.18.151

Webpage created 14-July-2008

Latest News - 19th. July 2008
Domain ed-group.net has been suspended by the registrar. No active domains are known for this criminal - if you know of an active website, please send me the URL/domain.