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Financial Center screenshot (05-Mar-2009)
Financial Center screenshot (05-Mar-2009)

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

Financial Center This is just a standard scam website that has been set up to form a front for a money laundering job advertisement.The site content, (which is the same as used for another fraudster, Business On-line), has been stolen from a company called ASB Poland. The domain has only been registered very recently for a one year period and the location/contact details are the same as for other frauds and are easily demonstrated to be fake. A Google search shows that their initial domain abb-business.net was previously used for a scam entitled 'ASB Prague'.

Financial Center  : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) Financial Center claim on their website above "Financial Center was established in 1997", but the criminal's domain abb-business.net was only registered with MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller), on 24-Nov-2008 for a period of one year. A clear indication of a fraudulent registration. It is hosted on the Yahoo IP 68.180.151.74 which is an IP used by a large number of these fraudsters, (including the Business On-line fraudster), with little or no intervention from Yahoo.

ii) A Google search shows absolutely no internet presence at all for this particular Financial Center. If they had indeed been in business since 1997 they would have a large presence. The fact that they do not is clear evidence of a fake company.

iii) Fake Website Contact Details:
Financial Center

Ul. Chmielna 28 B
Warsaw, 00-020, Poland
+1(631)479-3128

• - The address Ul. Chmielna 28 B, Warsaw, 00-020, Poland Googles as the address of ABM Europe (ABM Mosty Sp. z o.o.) and not these crooks - clear evidence of fraud.
• - The telephone number +1(631)479-3128 is not a Polish number, but a US number located at Huntington, NY - clear evidence of fraud
• - These are the same fake address details as for the Business On-line fraudster - clear evidence of fake details and thus a fake site.

iv) The fraud site content is exactly the same as the site content for another fake company Business On-line and the company ASB Poland, where presumably the content has been stolen from for both of the fake websites.

v) They are displaying a clearly fake BBB certificate which is simply a .gif image on the criminal's own server and leads to a fake BBB report, also on their own server. The Cincinnati BBB have this genuine damning report on this Financial Center fraudster and its related aliases. As of March the 25th. the BBB had received over 600 enquiries and 10 complaints about this fake company and have produced this warning article regarding its criminal activities.

vi) They are displaying a FDIC logo which is not a members certificate and a check on the FDIC website shows that they are not registered with the FDIC which is nothing to do with this sort of operation anyway. Clear fakery.

vii) They are advertising the job of "Financial Manager" which leads to a registration form for you to record your personal details - don't do it as it is simply a doorway to enrolling you in an illegal money mule operation which will get your bank account and your assets frozen and could earn you a criminal record.
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Financial Center website has been set up by money laundering criminal fraudsters 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 fraud - 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.
Financial Center Fraudsters - hosting details

Main Domains, Registrars and Hosts  
Domain

abb-business.net
abb-business.biz
abb-business.org
buisness-ab.com
as-buisness.net
buisness-smart.com
fcentersite.net
center-financial.com
 		 Registrar

MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 24-Nov-2008
MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 25-Nov-2008
MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 25-Nov-2008
MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 26-Nov-2008
MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 26-Nov-2008
MELBOURNE IT LTD, (Yahoo as reseller) - 26-Nov-2008
ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU - 06-Apr-2009
ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU - 27-Feb-2009
 Host Network

Yahoo
Yahoo
Yahoo
Yahoo
Yahoo
Yahoo
In-Solve/1Gb.ru
In-Solve/1Gb.ru
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68.180.151.74
81.176.69.137
81.176.226.102

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Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.
Network Data (abb-business.biz, as-buisness.net)

How I am searching:

Searching for abb-business.net A record at l.root-servers.net [199.7.83.42]: Got referral to g.gtld-servers.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for abb-business.net A record at g.gtld-servers.net. [192.42.93.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: abb-business.net.)
Searching for abb-business.net A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports abb-business.net. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
abb-business.net. A IN 1200 68.180.151.74
abb-business.net. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
abb-business.net. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
abb-business.net. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
abb-business.net. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 abb-business.net. 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

This criminal's website is hosted by Yahoo on IP  68.180.151.74. Yahoo are currently an unresponsive host for a large number of these criminal fraudsters.
***Latest News*** Initial entry 5th. March 2009
***Latest News*** 11th. March 2009
News from Simon Bear - Yahoo have finally disabled the domain abb-business.net. Please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** 13th. March 2009
New domain notified by site contact - abb-business.biz, registered with the usual unresponsive Melbourne IT/Yahoo as reseller and hosted on the usual Yahoo criminal's favourite IP 68.180.151.74
***Latest News*** 15th. March 2009
New domain notified by site contact - abb-business.org, registered with the usual unresponsive Melbourne IT/Yahoo as reseller and hosted on the usual Yahoo criminal's favourite IP 68.180.151.74
***Latest News*** 24th. March 2009
New domain notified by site contact - buisness-ab.com, registered with the usual unresponsive Melbourne IT/Yahoo as reseller and hosted on the following version of the Yahoo 'small criminal's network':
Network Data (buisness-ab.com, abb-business.biz)
How I am searching:

Searching for buisness-ab.com A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for buisness-ab.com A record at K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.52.178.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: buisness-ab.com.)
Searching for buisness-ab.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports buisness-ab.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
buisness-ab.com. A IN 1200 68.180.151.106
buisness-ab.com. A IN 1200 68.180.151.111
buisness-ab.com. A IN 1200 68.180.151.73
buisness-ab.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
buisness-ab.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
buisness-ab.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
buisness-ab.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 buisness-ab.com. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 68.180.151.106 68.180.151.111 68.180.151.73
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 68.180.151.106 68.180.151.111 68.180.151.73

Both above domains reported - Yahoo are still sponsoring this criminal activity and failing to respond in a timely manner to reports of it.
***Latest News*** 30th. March 2009
New domain reported by site contact - as-buisness.net registered with Melbourne IT (Yahoo as reseller) and hosted on the Yahoo 'Small criminal's network' IP 68.180.151.74 per usual, in fact all domains seem to be back on that IP - it seems to be the crook's favourite, mainly because of Yahoo's lack of a timely response I suppose.
Network Data (buisness-smart.com)
How I am searching:

Searching for buisness-smart.com A record at f.root-servers.net [192.5.5.241]: Got referral to F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for buisness-smart.com A record at F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.35.51.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: buisness-smart.com.)
Searching for buisness-smart.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports buisness-smart.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
buisness-smart.com. A IN 1200 68.180.151.74
buisness-smart.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
buisness-smart.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
buisness-smart.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
buisness-smart.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 buisness-smart.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

All of the above domains reported - Yahoo are still sponsoring this criminal activity and failing to respond in a timely manner to reports of it.
***Latest News*** 1st April 2009
Domains buisness-ab.com, abb-business.biz and as-buisness.net have been disabled by Yahoo - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** 4th April 2009
New Melbourne IT/Yahoo registered domain notified by site contact - buisness-smart.com hosted on the usual Yahoo IP address 68.180.151.74. This criminal is using the snipurl.com service to redirect, in this case from http://snipurl.com/f4rnh/ to http://buisness-smart.com/?content=1208844/
***Latest News*** 5th April 2009
Yahoo have fairly quickly disabled the domain buisness-smart.com, perhaps they are finally getting on top of this criminal activity but no information received from them one way or the other - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** 9th April 2009
The criminals have yet another domain - fcentersite.net, once again redirected to from a URL masking service, this time the redirect is http://tinyurl.com/dc9wy6 (there may be many others). The registrar for fcentersite.net is another familiar company - ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU (06-Apr-2009) and the hosting details area as follows:

How I am searching:
Searching for fcentersite.net A record at g.root-servers.net [192.112.36.4]: Got referral to M.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for fcentersite.net A record at M.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.55.83.30]: Got referral to ns1.1gb.ru. (zone: fcentersite.net.)
Searching for fcentersite.net A record at ns1.1gb.ru. [81.176.69.150]: Reports fcentersite.net. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
fcentersite.net. A IN 3600 81.176.69.137

Looking up at the 2 fcentersite.net. parent servers:

Server Response
ns2.1gb.ru [195.161.112.91] 81.176.69.137
ns1.1gb.ru [81.176.69.150] 81.176.69.137

This time the criminal has returned to his Russian roots for both his domain registration and his host, who is INSOLVERTC (In-Solve/1Gb.ru hosting services provider) on IP address 81.176.69.137
***Latest News*** 27th April 2009
The domain fcentersite.net has been disabled by the host, but these criminals are unfortunately still going strong - latest domain received from victim - center-financial.com registered with ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU - 27-Feb-2009 and hosted on the following network:

How I am searching:

Searching for center-financial.com A record at j.root-servers.net [192.58.128.30]: Got referral to A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for center-financial.com A record at A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to ns2.1gb.ru. (zone: center-financial.com.)
Searching for center-financial.com A record at ns2.1gb.ru. [195.161.112.91]: Reports center-financial.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
center-financial.com. A IN 3600 81.176.226.102

Looking up at the 2 center-financial.com. parent servers:

Server Response
ns2.1gb.ru [195.161.112.91] 81.176.226.102
ns1.1gb.ru [81.176.69.150] 81.176.226.102

The host for this criminal fraudster is In-Solve/1Gb.ru of Moscow on IP address 81.176.226.102

Later: In-Solve/1Gb.ru have disabled the hosting of the domain center-financial.com - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal