Eric Ager Logistics

Eric Ager Logistics Inc. Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Eric Ager Logistics Inc. screenshot (23-Aug-2008):

This fraudster should not be confused with any other company that may have a similar name. The website graphics and the evidence below identify this criminal.

Eric Ager Logistics Inc. (aka Eric Ager Eagle Logistics aka Ager Eric Eagle Logistic Inc. aka Eric Ager E Logistics Inc., (they seem a little confused about who they are), is a very elaborately dressed up fraud job spamvertising website. Its site content has been stolen mostly word for word from the US registered logistics company Global Ocean Freight Inc. In fact their 'find & replace' technique has failed them on their 'Auto Shipping' page as the genuine site Global Ocean Freight company used the acronym 'GOF' which is still there on the crooks page which rather gives the game away - there are other similar references to Global Ocean Freight mentioned on their website, i.e. the references page - sloppy. They claim to have been in business since 2000 on their 'About Us' page, but their website domain ericager.com was only registered with the Russian registrar ESTDOMAINS, INC. on 18-Jun-2008. Clear evidence of fraud.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The criminal's website domain ericager.com was only registered with ESTDOMAINS, INC. on 18-Jun-2008. Their previous domain of agerlogistics.com has been suspended by their Russian host and generates a "404 File (site) not found" message. Clear evidence of fraud.

ii) About Us detail:

Licenses

OTI/NVOCC (Federal Maritime Commission)
Shipping License(Special/General 11) No. 4025

In fact a simple check on the Federal Maritime Commission webpage shows that the company Eric Ager Logistics Inc. is not listed in their database and the license number 4025 does not belong to them - that claim is completely bogus. Clear evidence of fraud.

iii) About Us detail:

ID Number

19007745 www.bbb.org

In fact on the relevant BBB page, (for San Diego as they claim a San Diego address), they are not rated, but they do have complaints registered against them and their original listed domain of agerlogistics.com has been suspended by their Russian host and generates a "404 File (site) not found" message. Clear evidence of fraud.

iv) 'Contact Us' Details from the website:
Corporate Headquarters:
Eric Ager E Logistics Inc
12707 High Bluff Rd #20
San Diego, CA USA 92130
phone: (858) 952 0820
fax: (858) 408-3462
e-mail: office@ericager.com

HR Department: (858) 952-0826

Eric Ager E Logistics Group /EUR Dept/

Leutschenbachstrasse 95
CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
phone: (44) 30-823-811

• - There is no business located at the above corporate headquarters' address for San Diego, CA. Site contact called the local postal office there to confirm.
• - Their phone number (858) 952 0820 does not correspond with their zip code and does not connect to Eric Ager Logistics.
• - Their Fax. number (858) 408-3462 does not correspond with their zip code and does not connect to Eric Ager Logistics.
• - Their supposed Swiss number is in fact shown as a UK (+44) number and is an invalid number anyway.
• - Their fake Swiss address of Leutschenbachstrasse 95 CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland is actually the address of Juniper Networks GmbH.
All clear evidence of fraud.

v) Why would a supposedly San Diego based company use a Russian registrar and a Russian host?

vi) Eric Ager Logistics are not listed in the Dun & Bradstreet database.

vii) Eric Ager Logistics are not listed in the California state company register - Clear evidence of fraud.

viii) When they copied the Global Ocean Freight Inc. words "As one of the leading house hold goods shipping companies" on their home page in the above screenshot, they missed out the words "shipping companies" which rather makes a nonsense of the whole sentence.

ix) A Google search for "Eric Ager Logistics" shows that this particular company has no Google internet presence at all apart from their own website listing which makes a nonsense of their claims on their 'About Us' page to have 1,732,383 shares issued, 41,206 stockholders, capital of $47,578,900.04 and 595 employees.

x) Spam sent purporting to come from Careerbuilder - a victim's report:

"They contacted me through careerbuilder.com posing as a potential employer. The email correspondence I had with their 'HR Director', 'David Wilson' is attached below. I was unable to contact any of their listed contacts/locations, phone or email. They clearly plagarized content from global-oc.com, a legitimate shipping company, who is now aware of this fact. Their 'training' program for me included receiving plagarized shipping trade information, word document question tests, and unsolicited payment attempts to my credit cards, where I was then instructed to take out some of the money for an iphone or other equipment to use in my employment and then wait for instructions of what to do with the rest".

xi) The Spam

Thank you for your interest in our new vacancy. Your resume attracted my interest so I would like to let you know some details about our new position. Let me tell you a few words about our company first. Eric Ager Logistics provides a transportation service of all levels of complexity for oil mining companies. Please take a look at our web-site ERICAGER.COM Originally, the company is based in Zurich, Switzerland and operates all over Europe since 2000. American agent for Eric Ager is located in San-Diego, CA, but we operate EST business hours, as most of our clients are located on the Atlantic coast. In September 2008 we plan to launch an advertising campaign in most of the states, before that we plan to set up a chain of representatives all over the country. I need to cover all states with our managers, the head-office plans to hire at least 5 new managers in every state where our customers are located. The company is rather well known in mining industry, we have lots of clients there and cooperate with major mining companies like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., New Jersey Zinc Company, Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. and few others.

To cut a long story short, I will say that we are like FedEx, but work only with huge industrial corporations and ship their mining equipment all over the world. Please, take a look at our web-site for more details. The position name is a Project Supervisor. On this position you will be responsible for the customer support and all it's aspects. Your duties will include promoting our services, explaining all the details related with order, scheduling transportation, tracking the shipment and after that tracking the payment back to our accountants. Will have to keep in touch with clients lawyers, accountants, suppliers and handle other administrative duties. Please note that you won't have to look for new customers, only working with ones we already have, located in your state. As you understand, each of our clients is extremely important and valuable to us, as all of them represent huge corporations. But we don't have enough managers to operate with them, so we are looking for people who could provide as much care to our precious clients as possible.

Once again, the requirements for the position are:

-Undergraduate degree required.
-Computer knowledge of order processing.
-Credit score over 650 and no criminal background (will be verified, required because you will get an access to our corporate bank account) -Knowledge of and experience with international export documentation and procedures
-Orientation toward helping customers.
-Ability to promptly handle multiple detailed tasks simultaneously.
-Ability to interact with outside customers in a professional manner.
-Above-average mechanical interest and aptitude
-Problem-solving abilities.
-Good organizational skills; time and stress management skills.
-Ability to speak, read, and write at a business level in the language of assigned customer.
-Leadership abilities.

To get the position you will have to start with the training, consists of 2 stages: Stage one lasts for 4 weeks + 1 week for final test. Done at home, over the Internet. For 4 weeks, every morning you will receive the studies (4-5 pages document) and a test for them every Friday. Might take you up to 30 minutes a day, easy to combine with your full time job if you have one. During stage 1 you will receive a salary, $5,000 for the training course, to compensate your time spent. Possibly after 2nd or 3rd week of training you will start working over easy contracts with our clients under control of your assigned manager, if you show good results. If you succeed with the first stage, you will be invited to one of our offices (in Zurich, Europe or CA, USA) for 1 week instruction course and a final interview. There you will be assigned to one of our departments and will sign the employee contract, if you pass the interview. For first 6 months you will work at home (except CA, NY), after that your state might be chosen as one of the companies priorities and we will open an office in your area. Within next 3 months there will be 5 states chosen, with the highest level of clients activity. The salary for our managers is set up at $96,000/year + different bonuses and privileges. Please note that we withhold for FICA, Medicare (dentist not included) and 401K retirement plan. During the training you will be equipped with an iPhone, if you succeed with the final test and get a position in one of our departments the company will give you an official car, for business trips (for 2008 it's Toyota Camry) end everything else you need to work out of your home until an office will be opened nearby. For our managers we provide all the necessary equipment, such as a fax, scanner and a business phone and Internet line. Everything is free, you won't have to pay for it. There may be local trips, up to 3-4 days, not more. On case if you have any concerns it's not the type of job where you have to involve any money of your own or pay for anything. It's not a business opportunity.

Your only concern may be related with receiving payments from our clients. We work on special program under patronage of U.S. Government for reducing cheap-contracts taxes and all our managers, besides all other duties are responsible for controlling payments from our clients. For this managers either have a credit card issued at our name or an On-line access to the corporate bank account. Still, if the price of the contract is too small (less then $10K) for company it is cheaper to allow the manager to finalize the contract independently. For this they use their credit cards. Technically, American department for Eric Ager is an agent for the European office, that's why we have to work in accordance with this program. It is supported by US officials, because by working on this program we create more workplaces for US citizens and pay extra taxes to US Government, plus our company gets tax discounts at US customs. The reason we join that program is the European Union economic restrictions that affect us. If the payment is too small (less then $10K) and the client forwards the payment directly to our Swiss account, he would have to pay another 27% as a fee to the Swiss government, which would make our prices much higher. This 27%-Law was made by Swiss Bank Association to protect the interests of Swiss banks, but it affects us as well, as we cooperate with European and American banks which compete with Swiss in their areas. The US Government supports us and worked out a program by which we can avoid this tax. The payment is first received by our managers. Since you are a sub-contractor, you are tax free. You collect the payment and after that forward it to our corporate bank account. There is no need and we won't request any personal info from you, SSN or credit card numbers. Everything is done automatically, for security reasons. We cooperate with several credit bureaus which provide safety for this process. Please note that since there is
a possibility that you will use your personal credit card and you will have an access to the company financial information, your credit score has to be at least 650 and NO criminal background. I understand that this program might arise lot's of questions. Please, don't hesitate to ask, I will give a more detailed explanation or you could contact our accountants. For now, if you are interested, let me know and I will forward you the training process details and a pre-contract agreement, so you could apply. Pre-contract is signed only for the period of the training. After it will be over you will be invited to one of our offices to sign employees contract.

There's quite a smokescreen there, but the highlighted sentences clearly spell out the illegal money mule function that will get your bank account and your assets frozen and earn you a criminal record - don't be tempted.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the Eric Ager Logistics website has been stolen from a genuine company and 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 of 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.

Known Website Domains

ericager.com

Registrar

ESTDOMAINS, INC. (domohost.ru) 18-Jun-2008

Active
Suspended/Disabled

DNS Data: (ericager.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for ericager.com A record at g.root-servers.net [192.112.36.4]: Got referral to H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for ericager.com A record at H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.54.112.30]: Got referral to ns2.domohost.ru. (zone: ericager.com.)
Searching for ericager.com A record at ns2.domohost.ru. [81.222.136.197]: Reports ericager.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
ericager.com.	A	IN	14400	81.9.5.197
ericager.com.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.domohost.ru.
ericager.com.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.domohost.ru.
ns1.domohost.ru.	A	IN	14400	81.9.5.197
ns2.domohost.ru.	A	IN	14400	81.222.136.197

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

Server	Response
ns2.domohost.ru [81.222.136.197]	81.9.5.197
ns1.domohost.ru [81.9.5.197]	81.9.5.197

The host of this criminal fraudster is listed as ELTEL of St. Petersburg, Russia on IP 81.9.5.197

Fraud Log

Webpage created 23rd. August. 2008

***Latest News*** 5th October 2008
The criminal's domain ericager.com has been suspended. Please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.