Interpay Group Fraud
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The Interpay Group Fraud is a pretty minimalist fraud with a relatively simple website, (for these crooks), and little attempt made to disguise the obvious illegal money mule function that they spamvertise. This is the replacement scam for the identical International Trading Place fraud which is no longer on line but the details of which can still be found on Google.

This fraudster bears no relation to any other company of a same or similar name and should not be confused. The above website graphics and the money laundering job below are intended to identify this fraudster alone.


Known Website Domains

int-group.us
international-wire.com

Registrar

Melbourne IT (Yahoo)
Melbourne IT (Yahoo)
Registration Date

16-May-2007
02-Jan-2008
IP Address

See DNS data
See DNS data
Host

Yahoo small business network
Yahoo small business network

Suspended/DNS error


Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) Contact Details from website:
    
Interpay Group
25 Menandrou Street
10553
Athens
Greece

An obvious fake address - these address details belong to the Amaryllis Inn Hotel

ii) From the website: "Interpay Group was set-up in 2003 to operate Bureau de Change facilities throughout Greece." However, the domain int-group.us used by this fraudster was registered on 16-May-2007.

iii) Interpay Group
has no internet presence at all, apart from recognition as spammers and scammers which lends the lie to their website statement "The company has operations in Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, USA, Greece and Portugal".

iv) This is the obvious money mule job from the website:

Our company needs a serious and responsible person acting as our Bookkeeper.

 
This is an excellent part-time opportunity for anyone looking for a second job. The position is perfect for college grads, young professionals looking to start a career, or individuals looking for a career change. High income potential is a reality.

No Experience is needed.

 
Because of the European Union laws, any company that receives money transfers from
non-EU companies has to pay VAT (Value Added Tax), 16% from incoming transfers.
 But EU companies don't have to pay VAT if the money transfers are received from a person.
That's why we can save this money. You will be handling our transactions in USA,
acting as a Bookkeeper.
 
 
You will receive wire transfers for our US clients, taking 7% as your commission and you
will be able to make approx $2,000.00 - $2,500.00 per week,
working 2 hours per day for this job.
 
 
 There is no fee before or after you start.
You don't have to pay any money to start working with us!

 
 
There is no reason for your concern regarding your bank account information, as we are only asking for information needed to send money to you. We do not request any access to your bank account. Basically we need you to withdraw 93% of the amount you'll receive and send it to one of our European clients within 2 business days after the wire transfer is clear to your account.
You will also deduct any transfer fees from this 93%.
 
 
The main objective of our company is to provide opportunities in 
career building for people with little or no previous backgrounds. 
We won't ask you about your credit rating. We don't work for collection agencies.
Being a long-established solid corporation we understand how important is to
provide our customers the best possibilities and support. We always try our best to 
be cooperative and customer-friendly
.
 
 
Requirements are simple:
- Being of Legal age (over 21 years old)
- Internet access, couple of hours per day
- Ability to answer emails and phone calls every day


In other words a classic illegal money mule job.

v) No legitimate company would advertise for private citizens to do a part-time illegal job working from home exchanging money.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the The Interpay 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 usually 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.
Spam Sample

Please allow me to introduce myself,
I am Philip Campbell, US Representative of Interpay Group.

We are a privately owned company, based in Greece and focused on providing European companies a fast and reliable way of receiving payments from non-EU countries. Because of the European Union laws, any company that recieves money transfers from non-EU companies has to pay VAT (Value Added Tax), 16% of all incoming transfers. But we don't have to pay the VAT as long as we receive money transfers from a US resident person and this way we can save a lot of money. Therefore, we are seeking for a trust-able person in USA who owns a bank account in order to receive payments by wire transfers from our US clients.

We agree to deposit funds into your US bank account if you accept 7% of these funds as payment for your services. You will only be responsible for sending the remaining of the funds to our company in Europe by Western Union or MoneyGram. The fees for sending these payments will be deducted from our 93%. After the funds will be deposited into your bank account and the wire transfer is clear, you will be contacted by one of our staff to indicate you where to send the money. The only thing that is needed in order to work with us is to open a new bank account or if you already own one we can use that account to receive payments.


There is no reason for your concern regarding your bank account information, as we are only asking for information needed to send money to you. We do not request any access to your bank account. Basically we need you to withdraw 93% of the amount you'll receive and send it to one of our European clients within 2 business days after the wire transfer is clear to your account. You will also deduct any transfer fees from this 93%.


The main objective of our company is to provide opportunities in career building for people with little or no previous backgrounds. We won't ask you about your credit rating. We don't work for collection agencies. Being a long-established solid corporation we understand how important is to provide our customers the best possibilities and support. We always try our best to be cooperative and customer-friendly.


Requirements are simple:
- Being of Legal age (over 21 years old)
- Home address and phone number
- Internet access, couple of hours per day


DNS Data:

How I am searching:

Searching for int-group.us A record at l.root-servers.net [199.7.83.42]: Got referral to b.gtld.biz. (zone: us.)
Searching for int-group.us A record at b.gtld.biz. [209.173.57.162]: Got referral to YNS1.YAHOO.COM. (zone: int-group.us.)
Searching for int-group.us A record at YNS1.YAHOO.COM. [66.218.71.205]: Reports int-group.us. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.149
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.150
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.151
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.152
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.153
int-group.us. A IN 600 69.147.83.154
int-group.us. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
int-group.us. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
int-group.us. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
int-group.us. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
ns8.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
ns9.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20
yns1.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
yns2.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20

Looking up at the 2 int-group.us. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20]  69.147.83.146 69.147.83.147 69.147.83.148 69.147.83.149 69.147.83.150 69.147.83.151
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205]  69.147.83.148 69.147.83.149 69.147.83.150 69.147.83.151 69.147.83.152 69.147.83.153

Once again the host is the Yahoo small business network, a favourite host of so many of these criminals.

Fraud Log:
Initial set-up 11th. Jan 2008

***Latest News*** 3rd. March 2008
New domain notified by site contact - international-wire.com, hosted once again on the Yahoo small business network.
DNS Data: (international-wire.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for international-wire.com A record at j.root-servers.net [192.58.128.30]: Got referral to A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for international-wire.com A record at A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: international-wire.com.)
Searching for international-wire.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205]: Reports international-wire.com. Response:
DomainTypeClassTTLAnswer
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.207
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.208
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.209
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.235
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.236
international-wire.com.AIN1200216.39.58.237
international-wire.com.NSIN86400yns2.yahoo.com.
international-wire.com.NSIN86400ns8.san.yahoo.com.
international-wire.com.NSIN86400ns9.san.yahoo.com.
international-wire.com.NSIN86400yns1.yahoo.com.
yns1.yahoo.com.AIN180066.218.71.205
yns2.yahoo.com.AIN1800216.109.116.20
ns8.san.yahoo.com.AIN180066.218.71.205
ns9.san.yahoo.com.AIN1800216.109.116.20

Looking up at the 2 international-wire.com. parent servers:

ServerResponse
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20] 216.39.58.199 216.39.58.200 216.39.58.201 216.39.58.202 216.39.58.203 216.39.58.204
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205] 216.39.58.197 216.39.58.198 216.39.58.199 216.39.58.200 216.39.58.201 216.39.58.202

Once again the host is the Yahoo small business network, a favourite host of so many of these criminals.