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Finance & Trade Advisory scam screenshot - 01-Apr-2009
Finance & Trade Advisory screenshot - 01-Apr-2009
This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the above screenshot and the following fraud evidence defines and refers to this fake company alone and no other. 

Finance & Trade Advisory is just another fake financial site used as a vehicle to legitimise a money laundering mule recruiting fraud scam campaign. Their site content has been stolen from the Carrley Business Consulting website, their initial domain ftadvisory.com was only recently registered for one year only and they have no web presence. The previous fraud to use stolen content from the Carrley Business Consulting website was the Navitex fraud, so this is almost certainly a follow on fraud to that one.
Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) From the above screenshot "We have many years experience" but their domain ftadvisory.com was only registered with DirectI/PublicDomainRegistry.com on 08-Mar-2009 for one year only. A clear indication of a fake website.

ii) The fake Finance & Trade Advisory website content has quite clearly been stolen from the genuine company Carrley Business Consulting and modified to suit the criminal's purposes. Clear evidence of site theft and fraud.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, a Google search shows little evidence of web presence, but does show evidence of job website spamming, (sample below). They also appear to have hijacked the registration and details of an existing UK company[1] for their own criminal purposes, (not unusual), do not be fooled.

[1]
FINANCE & TRADE ADVISORY LIMITED
69 GREAT HAMPTON STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B18 6EW
Company No. 06181189

iv) The true purpose of the website is to lend legitimacy to a job website and email spamming campaign attempting to recruit money laundering mules. Here is an example of the spam which appeared on a jobs website, (it is a similar job as spamvertised by the Navitex crook):

Customer Manager - United Kingdom

Dear, Job Seeker!

Our firm has an opening vacancy: Customer Manager.

Please attach your resume in DOC or rich text format and apply right now. This position is limited.

Company Name: Finance&Trade Advisory Job Category: Accounting/Finance; Account/Manager

Location: World-wide Position Type: Full-Time/Part-Time/Home Based

Salary: $ 3,000/month + bonus

Experience: 1+ Desired Education Level: High School or Equivalent

APPLY NOW: send your full name, phone number, age and RESUME to: mail@ftadvisory.com

About Company:
We are different from most consulting firms. While other firms provide services in traditional disciplines like cost reduction, building or re-engineering processes and systems, or mergers and acquisitions, we help companies drive true organic growth - revenue and profit increase from continuing operations.
Our consultants are trusted advisors to many of the world’s leading companies. This approach enables us to identify, develop, and implement solutions that align with our clients’ visions and strategies.
We sometimes have clients that owe us funds and pay us in financial Instruments cashable only in the local area. We therefore employ Customer Manager who can control the payment of our customers from your state. The responsibilities of work included compiling monthly reports on the overall turnover of funds, sending documents on each transfer.

Job Summary:
You will make some basic tasks from your manager daily; manage personal assets; making simple financial operations. You don't need to have any kind of financial education or experience. We will make online training for position offered. You will have more information in job description document. Apply now.

This position requires someone with:
- well developed analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills;
- broad understanding of financial/accounting principles and systems;
- team oriented, results focused individual with hands-on style committed to delivering a very high quality work product;
- creativity and tenacity in analysis and problem solving;
- top notch communication and writing skills;
- drive to be the best;- 'can-do' attitude.

Requirements:
- high school or college in relevant field or 1+ years experience in management;
- basic computer, good verbal and grammar skills;
- must have a cellular phone for urgent tasks;
- must be able to work part-time;
- must provide resume for qualification process.

ALL RESUMES WILL BE CONFIRMED AND VERIFIED. THE SELECTED CANDIDATE MUST PASS A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK.

If you're interested send your full name, phone number, age and RESUME to: mail@ftadvisory.com
v) The job is defined by the paragraph: "We therefore employ Customer Manager who can control the payment of our customers from your state. The responsibilities of work included compiling monthly reports on the overall turnover of funds, sending documents on each transfer."  Controlling the payments of the customers and sending documents on each transfer means accepting fake cheques into your bank account and transferring a balance to these criminals via Western Union or Moneygram. Don't be fooled or you will end up losing a lot of money, having your bank account and your assets frozen and possibly ending up with a criminal record as this is the classic illegal money laundering mule position.

vi) If you reply to the spam, you get various documents, including the following job description by return, (other documents available):
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: Finance Manager

GENERAL
Receive payments from our customers in your area

PRINCIPAL DUTY
1.    Receive payments from our customers* in your area (The payment from our customers for services provided under the contract. Cause we work all over the world, the customers much easier to transfer money to our finance managers who are in the same state/region. You'll receive transfers from 1,000 to 10,000 dollars. An average of 2-3 transfers a week.)
2.    Create reports for each transaction
3.    Follow the instructions from senior manager

* All customers pass the verification control, we care of yours security.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES
1.    Assistance in company’s financial business

REQUIRED SKILLS
1.    Team work
2.    Basic knowledge of MS Office
3.    Accuracy
4.    More than 2 years experience in management

WORK PLAN

1.    Our customer make a payment on your account
2.    Withdraw cash from your account
3.    Receive 8% for every transaction immediately
4.    Then you make a transfer through the nearest Western Union office (company covers all taxes and expenses)
5.    As soon as possible advise our operator on the payment details.
vii) 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 - do not be tempted.
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Finance & Trade Advisory website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job. 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.
 
Main Website Domains

ftadvisory.com

 Registrar

DirectI/PublicDomainRegistry.com (08-Mar-2009)

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

DNS Data (Valid for domain ftadvisory.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for ftadvisory.com A record at f.root-servers.net [192.5.5.241]: Got referral to I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for ftadvisory.com A record at I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns2.hosting-pro.org. (zone: ftadvisory.com.)
Searching for ftadvisory.com A record at ns2.hosting-pro.org. [80.90.124.15]: Reports ftadvisory.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
ftadvisory.com. A IN 14400 80.90.118.102
ftadvisory.com. NS IN 14400 ns1.hosting-pro.org.
ftadvisory.com. NS IN 14400 ns2.hosting-pro.org.
ns1.hosting-pro.org. A IN 14400 80.90.118.102
ns2.hosting-pro.org. A IN 14400 80.90.124.15


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

Server Response
ns2.hosting-pro.org [80.90.124.15] 80.90.118.102
ns1.hosting-pro.org [80.90.118.102] 80.90.118.102

The host for this criminal fraudster is RU-SMARTLOGIC-20050603 (Limited Company SmartLogic) on IP address 80.90.118.102

***Latest News*** 1st. April 2009
Webpage created
***Latest News*** 2nd. April 2009
The domain  ftadvisory.com has been suspended by the registrar - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.