International Design Guild, Inc. (Stolen Identity) Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this fake company alone and no other. The website has been stolen from a genuine Russian company. These criminals have stolen the identity of a Florida based entity of the same name which was incorporated in 1966, long before this criminal's clearly fraudulent scam was set up!

International Design Guild, Inc. (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 30-Mar-2010

International Design Guild, Inc. (Stolen Identity) is just the latest of the numerous fake Russian serial scam sites that exist solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. They have a new template and the complete content of their fraud website has now quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company 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 domain id-guild.biz was only registered with the registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year) and contains a clear money mule solicitation of U.S. Representative/Financial manager under the Careers tab. Their other previous, (identical job), fraud aliases are/were Vidal Architects, Inc, Design Resources, Inc, Design Build Studio, Inc, Design 2 Studio LLC., First Design Group, Design to Perform, DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C, N Design Studio, Inc, Euro-Design Corp, The Design Studio, LLC (The Desugn Studio, LLC), DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc., International Design Center, LLC, HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC., Design & Promotions Corporation, The Design Agency, LLC, Design Products Inc., DESIGN +, INC., DESIGN ACCENTS, INC., International Design Source, Inc, Design For You llc, Design Engineering, INC, DESIGN FORCE, LLC, DESIGN FACTORY INC., DesignNext, Advanced Design Services, Inc, DESIGN EXTENSIONS, LLC, Design Group 7 Inc, VERO DESIGN, INC., DOROSINSKI, CAMPBELL DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC., L&D INTERIOR DESIGN, INC., Aqualine Design, Inc., The Debra Toney Companies, Design Radiance, LLC., Design Gold Group, Inc., Design 2 Fit, LLC, Modern Design & Development, LLC, ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC, All-Pro Design, Inc and Design Place Real Estate, LLC (all stolen identity) frauds among others. This is clearly a serial fraudster which is clear evidence of fraud in itself. As per their usual MO, these criminals have stolen the identity of a Florida based entity who were incorporated in 1966 - clearly long before these crooks set up their criminal operation, probably long before they were even born....

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The International Design Guild, Inc. (Stolen Identity) criminal's website has quite clearly been stolen from this genuine US design company, 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, (text below). However, the fact that their domain id-guild.biz was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 15-mar-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud has a new stolen template from this company, but it is simply an identical follow-on money-mule fraud to all their other identical aliases as listed above.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, (as evidenced below), this fake "International Design Guild, Inc." have no genuine Google internet presence at all in their own right, (ignoring their own fake multiple websites, of course - you'd expect to find them). Not to be confused with the real company - Irrefutable evidence of fraud.

iv) The payload of the fake website is the following crystal clear money mule criminal solicitation under the Careers tab:

Careers

U.S. Representative/Financial Manager Job Position

Job Summary:

Type of Employment: Agreement
Job Type: Part Time (2-4 hours per week)
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Salary: $60,000-$80,000.00 /year
Location: Any ( at home on free time)
This could be the perfect complement to your current job.

About Company:

Our company primarily deals in design activities for corporate and residential ground plans. Our business unit is experienced in both creation and implementation of plans conceived.

    * Accommodations
    * Premises design

Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world. Although we are currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the arms of our innovation have reached the four corners of the planet. We maintain a direct and diligent marketing process in the United States, and repeatedly offer services that are ahead of the industry “curve” in both pricing and quality. Our advantages lay in certain benefits our Europen clientele experience that only an overseas company can provide:

   1. We are able to offer similar products for lower than standard pricing; we are able to cheaply staff our Moscow office
   2. Our Home Office is staffed with industry experts with over 8 decades of combined experience

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.

You can combine this job with your current job, because you'll spend no more than 3 hours per week. This job can become perfect addition to your current job.

v) It is the identical job to all of their previous aliases. 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 and managing directors".

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) Fake staff: Their 'Team' doesn't change between aliases, apart from the names for the fake 'Director' and 'Best Employers", (I guess these Russian fakers mean "Best Employees"). This time the same faces are Kramarenko Sergey Nikolaevich, Potapova L. S., and Tim H. B., (in the identical ALPHA DESIGN SERVICES, LLC fraud, the same faces were Victor Petrov, Veronica Pena and Luis Martinez).

Anyone know where the photographs have been stolen from? (almost certainly a Russian source).

Team

viii) Another identical alias, another set of fake contact Details & fake certificates for this serial criminal from their 'Business Licence' page:

N.B. - They have stolen the identity of a genuine Florida business entity - it's what they always do.

International Design Guild, Inc.

RUSSIAN ADDRESS
23 Gagarina st.
Moscow, 422000
Russian Federation

United States Business Name: International Design Guild, Inc.
Tax ID (FEIN): 591142041
Duns Number: 60-866-1786
Reference Name: FLORIDA BUSINESS REGISTRATIONS

• - A Google search for the Russian address "23 Gagarina st. Moscow" shows no sign of these crooks, (ignoring the crook's own fake website, of course).
• - A Google Maps search for the Russian address "23 Gagarina st. Moscow" returns the message "We were not able to locate the address: "23 Gagarina st. Moscow"". Just another fake address.
• - This time they haven't even bothered to list the address of the genuine Florida company identity that they have stolen.
• - A Google search for the fake DUNS number 60-866-1786 returns nothing for these crooks, (ignoring the crook's own fake website, of course), but the same fake number was also used for their identical alias, Design Place Real Estate, LLC - clear evidence of fraud.
All clear evidence of fake details and fraud.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the fake International Design Guild, Inc. (stolen Identity) 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 serial 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

id-guild.biz
id-g.biz

Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 15-mar-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 23-Apr-2010

Host

Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

Domain Whois Data (These are criminal registered domains - Any personal whois details are fake or stolen and so have been redacted where necessary).

Domain Name:                                 ID-GUILD.BIZ
Domain ID:                                   D38703286-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                13
Domain Status:                               clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:                               B126867208099051
Registrant Name:                             Robert Rudolph
Registrant Organization:                     Private Registration US
Registrant Address1:                         PO Box 61359
Registrant City:                             Sunnyvale
Registrant State/Province:                   CA
Registrant Postal Code:                      94088
Registrant Country:                          United States
Registrant Country Code:                     US
Registrant Phone Number:                     +1.5105952002
Registrant Email:                            contact@myprivateregistration.com
Administrative Contact ID:                   B126867208099047
Administrative Contact Name:                 PrivateRegContact Admin
Administrative Contact Organization:         Private Reg US
Administrative Contact Address1:             PO Box 61359
Administrative Contact City:                 Sunnyvale
Administrative Contact State/Province:       CA
Administrative Contact Postal Code:          94088
Administrative Contact Country:              United States
Administrative Contact Country Code:         US
Administrative Contact Phone Number:         +1.5105952002
Administrative Contact Email:                contact@myprivateregistration.com
Billing Contact ID:                          B126867208099049
Billing Contact Name:                        PrivateRegContact Bill
Billing Contact Organization:                Private Reg US
Billing Contact Address1:                    PO Box 61359
Billing Contact City:                        Sunnyvale
Billing Contact State/Province:              CA
Billing Contact Postal Code:                 94088
Billing Contact Country:                     United States
Billing Contact Country Code:                US
Billing Contact Phone Number:                +1.5105952002
Billing Contact Email:                       contact@myprivateregistration.com
Technical Contact ID:                        D126867185944454
Technical Contact Name:                      PrivateRegContact TECH
Technical Contact Organization:              Private Reg US
Technical Contact Address1:                  PO Box 61359
Technical Contact City:                      Sunnyvale
Technical Contact State/Province:            CA
Technical Contact Postal Code:               94088
Technical Contact Country:                   United States
Technical Contact Country Code:              US
Technical Contact Phone Number:              +1.5105952002
Technical Contact Email:                     contact@myprivateregistration.com
Name Server:                                 YNS1.YAHOO.COM
Name Server:                                 YNS2.YAHOO.COM
Created by Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Last Updated by Registrar:                   MELBOURNE IT LTD
Domain Registration Date:                    Mon Mar 15 16:58:23 GMT 2010
Domain Expiration Date:                      Mon Mar 14 23:59:59 GMT 2011
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Mon Mar 15 16:58:29 GMT 2010

Domain Name:                                 ID-G.BIZ
Domain ID:                                   D39289109-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                13
Domain Status:                               clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:                               A12720518883907
Registrant Name:                             Jeffrey Leeper
Registrant Organization:                     Private Registration US
Registrant Address1:                         PO Box 61359
Registrant City:                             Sunnyvale
Registrant State/Province:                   CA
Registrant Postal Code:                      94088
Registrant Country:                          United States
Registrant Country Code:                     US
Registrant Phone Number:                     +1.5105952002
Registrant Email:                            contact@myprivateregistration.com
Administrative Contact ID:                   A12720518883900
Administrative Contact Name:                 PrivateRegContact Admin
Administrative Contact Organization:         Private Reg US
Administrative Contact Address1:             PO Box 61359
Administrative Contact City:                 Sunnyvale
Administrative Contact State/Province:       CA
Administrative Contact Postal Code:          94088
Administrative Contact Country:              United States
Administrative Contact Country Code:         US
Administrative Contact Phone Number:         +1.5105952002
Administrative Contact Email:                contact@myprivateregistration.com
Billing Contact ID:                          A12720518883903
Billing Contact Name:                        PrivateRegContact Bill
Billing Contact Organization:                Private Reg US
Billing Contact Address1:                    PO Box 61359
Billing Contact City:                        Sunnyvale
Billing Contact State/Province:              CA
Billing Contact Postal Code:                 94088
Billing Contact Country:                     United States
Billing Contact Country Code:                US
Billing Contact Phone Number:                +1.5105952002
Billing Contact Email:                       contact@myprivateregistration.com
Technical Contact ID:                        A12720518883905
Technical Contact Name:                      PrivateRegContact TECH
Technical Contact Organization:              Private Reg US
Technical Contact Address1:                  PO Box 61359
Technical Contact City:                      Sunnyvale
Technical Contact State/Province:            CA
Technical Contact Postal Code:               94088
Technical Contact Country:                   United States
Technical Contact Country Code:              US
Technical Contact Phone Number:              +1.5105952002
Technical Contact Email:                     contact@myprivateregistration.com
Name Server:                                 YNS1.YAHOO.COM
Name Server:                                 YNS2.YAHOO.COM
Created by Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Last Updated by Registrar:                   MELBOURNE IT LTD
Domain Registration Date:                    Fri Apr 23 19:44:52 GMT 2010
Domain Expiration Date:                      Fri Apr 22 23:59:59 GMT 2011
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Fri Apr 23 19:44:57 GMT 2010

DNS Lookup: id-guild.biz A record [Also valid for id-g.biz]
Searching for id-guild.biz A record at k.root-servers.net [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to b.gtld.biz. (zone: biz.)
Searching for id-guild.biz A record at b.gtld.biz. [209.173.57.162]: Got referral to YNS2.YAHOO.COM. (zone: id-guild.biz.)
Searching for id-guild.biz A record at YNS2.YAHOO.COM. [66.196.84.168]: Reports id-guild.biz.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
id-guild.biz.	A	IN	1200	98.136.50.138
id-guild.biz.	A	IN	1200	69.147.83.188
id-guild.biz.	A	IN	1200	69.147.83.187
id-guild.biz.	NS	IN	86400	yns2.yahoo.com.
id-guild.biz.	NS	IN	86400	ns9.san.yahoo.com.
id-guild.biz.	NS	IN	86400	yns1.yahoo.com.
id-guild.biz.	NS	IN	86400	ns8.san.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 id-guild.biz. parent servers:

Server	Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]	69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]	69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is the usual Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138. This IP range is the host for many of these criminals.

***Latest News*** 30th. March 2010
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 28th. April 2010
News from site contact. The domain id-guild.biz has been disabled and the criminal is now using the new domain id-g.biz hosted as above.