Job Instructor Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

This fraud should not be confused with the any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this fake, (supposedly Swedish), company alone and no other.

Job Instructor scam screenshot - 07-Jan-2010

The Job Instructor scam appears on the face of it to be a pretty standard money laundering mule fraud website, but it isn't - it's an identical scam to the Ebook/Devbill 'Rockphish/Asprox' Infobite Software Ltd. (strawberry websites), and the subsequent AlfaCor, United Swiss Trading Group and Swiss Internet Trading criminal fraudsters among many others who try to persuade you to set up your own limited company complete with merchant account for the purposes of laundering stolen funds from credit card fraud on the bogus pretext of a website template franchise operation, exactly as before. Lots of information regarding this particular type of fraud can be found here and specifically here. As can be seen from the above screenshot, these criminals claim to have been in business since 1970, but their initial website domain, (job-instructor.com), was only registered with Active Registrar, Inc. (R1709-LROR) (Active-Domain LLC) on 02-Dec-2009 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year. Their location details are bogus, their site content is stolen and they have no Google internet presence whatsoever. They are not a registered company in their claimed location of Sweden, (although they've mistakenly left the location of Memphis TN in the above screen shot of their stolen site content), which demonstrates beyond doubt their fraudulent nature - check for yourself. Previous recent aliases are 1st Class Recruitment and Job Specification, (they are still using the same fake location details as they did for their previous two fraud aliases) - clear evidence of serial fraud.

Job Instructor : Evidence of Site Theft and Criminal Fraud

i) The Job Instructor criminal fraudsters are claiming on their above home page: "Job Instructor was founded in 1970 as a professional search and recruiting firm", however, their website domain, (job-instructor.com), was only registered with Active Registrar, Inc. (R1709-LROR) (Active-Domain LLC) on 02-Dec-2009 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year. - a clear indication of a fraudulent registration.

ii) If they were a genuine company that had been trading since 1970, they would have a considerable Google presence with all sorts of referrals and trade listings, however, a Google search for "Job Instructor" returns nothing but the 'white noise' generated by the clearly fake generic name. - clear evidence of fraud.

iii) Although they claim to be located in Sweden There is no such company by the name of Job Instructor registered in the Swedish Company Registry - clear and irrefutable evidence of a fake company.

iv) Stolen site content - their above home page is a patchwork quilt of stolen content as is usual for these crooks. The first paragraph has been stolen from here, their second and third paragraphs have been stolen from here, and so on. Clear evidence of site theft and fraud.

v) The Spam:

Greetings,

My name is Erik Svensson, I am the Manager of Job Instructor
recruitment company, a leading recruiting agency for home based jobs.
I email you with regard to the job seeking information you posted at
CareerBuilder.com. I viewed your resume and you seem to be an
appropriate candidate for the position which is currently open within
one of the companies we perform our recruiting campaigns for.

Could you please confirm you are still interested in employment? If
you are, please, let me know and I will get back to you with more
information on the position.

Regards,

Erik Svensson

Job Instructor Inc. (www.job-instructor.com)

vi) The follow-up response to a query for more information:

Good day!

Thank you for your answer. I believe our cooperation will bring us a
lot of positive experience. Please see below the detailed description
of the position of Assistant Director.

Our Swedish partner, Azatti Desing Studio Inc, is looking for a
candidate to the position of Assistant Director. They've applied to us
to find the proper person for this position according to their
requirements.

Azatti Desing Studio Inc. provides their customers with wide variety
of design services for many years already and has a great experience
in this sphere. Recently, the management of the company has decided to
enter the US market, and for this purpose they need an associated
business unit in US. This decision was also caused by the difficulties
existing for European companies who wish to sell products and services
to US customers as well as by intention to avoid heavy domestic taxes
(as you might know, Swedish taxation is probably one of the heaviest
in the world).

Azatti Desing Studio's Inc. engineers will create a Web-store for US
company to sell their original products online. They will promote this
Web-store and provide it with hosting, development and support. To
accept payments online, it will be necessary to have a merchant
account. Unfortunately it is impossible for European company, which
has a merchant account in European bank, to accept payments online
from US customers (basically, it is possible, but with a lot of
limitations that make it impossible). So the Assistant Director, as a
company representative, will need to open a merchant account in US.
Azatti Desing Studio will provide you with all necessary information
and instructions.

The primary duties of Assistant Director are:
a. Business bank account and Merchant account maintaining and
monitoring;
b. Handling business correspondence and transmitting it to Azatti
Desing Studio Inc by fax or by mail (all expenses are reimbursed).
c. Being in touch with Azatti Desing Studio's Inc representative by
e-mail and accurately following his/her instructions.

First of all you'll need to register the LLC in your Secretary of
State or at http://instacorp.com. (Feel free to ask for my help with
this question at any time). Your company will operate as an on-line
store and will sell a digital content for PC provided by Azatti Desing
Studio Inc. Also Azatti Desing Studio Inc will be responsible for
customers and technical support. You will be responsible only for
performing the duties above.

Azatti Desing Studio's Inc requirements:

1. A punctuality, clear background.
2. Deep desire to achieve financial success.
3. Computer / Internet / e-mail skills.
4. Internet and e-mail access.
5. US citizenship or Green Card.

Your commission will be 5% from the store revenues (you'll earn about
2,500-3,000$ per month). Also all bank and merchant fees will be paid
by the parent company. You will get your 5% in any case not depending
what fees will be. Your income will increase along with business
boost. You will be responsible to pay taxes only on your commission;
the rest taxable 95% is a responsibility of the parent company.
Let me sum up all I said above about your duties briefly in few clear
steps:

1. You need to file a legal entity in your state (city) (it can be a
LLC or Sole Proprietorship). If you already have a company, it's
great, it will save us some time. The cost of registering a small
business starts from $200, but it strongly depends on the State. The
time frame for a company set-up also differs from state to state and
normally the process of registration takes 2-10 business days. The
parent company will reimburse you for these start up expenses from the
first revenues your web-store produces.

2. After the LLC is registered you'll need to open a business checking
account in any bank in your area.

After that your personal manager will provide you with instructions on
how to open the merchant account for the store. Here ends the start up
process and your duties will be just to monitor the accounts and take
your regular commission.

As you can see, all steps are very easy.
Feel free to ask any questions you have and let me know your decision.
In case it is positive I'll send you an Agreement to sign that
welcomes you to the Azatti Desing Studio Inc successful team.

Waiting for your answer.
Sincerely yours,

Erik Svensson.

And there you have it - different name but the same old fraud spiel as per their Job Specification alias. The whole purpose of the above operation is to persuade unwary potential victims to enrol in money laundering fraud derived from phishing operations carried out against the real victim's credit cards. It's an identical scam to the crook's previous aliases as listed above.

How the scam works: Small, easily overlooked amounts are stolen by the criminals from victims credit cards by making unauthorised charges for non-existent products supposedly provided by the fake "subsidiary company" that has been set up in the mule's name and the charges are paid into the mules associated merchant account. The mule then refunds 90% of all amounts that are paid into his merchant account back to the criminals via Moneygram or Western Union, keeping 10% for himself. This is a classic money laundering operation and the stolen money will be traceable directly to the mug who has been suckered into setting up the fake company and merchant account in his/her name. The first thing they will know about it is when the police come knocking at their door and their nightmare will begin - they will lose a lot of money and end up facing criminal charges - don't say you haven't been warned.

vii) Fake location details from the website: (Remember that they are not a registered company in Sweden, so they are not going to be genuine)

Contact Job Instructor
We welcome your feedback and questions regarding our company, services and web site.

• Email: info@job-instructor.com

• Phone / Fax: +46-031-785 95 81

• Address: Gjörwellsgatan 28, 112 60 Stockholm, Sweden

• - The location details are exactly the same as for their previous 1st Class Recruitment and Job Specification scams - clear evidence of serial fraud..
• - A Google search for the address "Gjörwellsgatan 28, 112 60 Stockholm" returns no hits for these criminals
• - A Google Maps business search for the address "Gjörwellsgatan 28, 112 60 Stockholm" returns no hits for these crooks - they are not a listed business at that address.
• - A Google search for the telephone number "+46-031-785 95 81" returns no hits for these criminals. (It's not a Stockholm number anyway, but Göteborg)

Clearly fake details.

There may be associated mule websites involved in this fraud and also possibly other main website domains. If you know of any other domains or any 'subsidiary company' websites, please let me know about them.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the Job Instructor website is a criminal website set up with intent to deceive and defraud. 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.

Job Instructor Ltd Fraudsters - hosting details.

Main Domains, Hosts and Registrars

Domain

job-instructor.com

Registrar

Active Registrar, Inc. (R1709-LROR) (Active-Domain LLC) (02-Dec-2009)

Host

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.

IP Address

174.120.228.3

Key:
Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked

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Domain Whois Data:

Registrar:     ACTIVE REGISTRAR, INC.
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 02-dec-2009   Updated 07-dec-2009 Expires 02-dec-2010
DNS Servers:   NS1.HORSE.ARVIXE.COM NS2.HORSE.ARVIXE.COM

Registration Service Provided By: Active-Domain LLC
Contact: http://www.active-domain.com

Domain Name: job-instructor.com
Expiry Date: 03-Dec-2010
Creation Date: 03-Dec-2009

Name servers:
ns1.horse.arvixe.com
ns2.horse.arvixe.com

Registrant Name: Whois Manager
Registrant Company: Whois Proof LLP
Registrant Email Address: z2znq725u4@whoisproof.com
Registrant Address: PO Box 4120
Registrant City: Portland
Registrant State/Region/Province: OR
Registrant Postal Code: 97208-4120
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Tel No: +1.2024700599
Registrant Fax No: +1.8663666681

Admin Name: Whois Manager
Admin Company: Whois Proof LLP
Admin Email Address: z2znq725u4@whoisproof.com
Admin Address: PO Box 4120
Admin City: Portland
Admin State/Region/Province: OR
Admin Postal Code: 97208-4120
Admin Country: US
Admin Tel No: +1.2024700599
Admin Fax No: +1.8663666681

Tech Name: Whois Manager
Tech Company: Whois Proof LLP
Tech Email Address: z2znq725u4@whoisproof.com
Tech Address: PO Box 4120
Tech City: Portland
Tech State/Region/Province: OR
Tech Postal Code: 97208-4120
Tech Country: US
Tech Tel No: +1.2024700599
Tech Fax No: +1.8663666681

DNS Lookup: job-instructor.com A record
Searching for job-instructor.com A record at f.root-servers.net [192.5.5.241]: Got referral to I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for job-instructor.com A record at I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns1.horse.arvixe.com. (zone: job-instructor.com.)
Searching for job-instructor.com A record at ns1.horse.arvixe.com. [174.120.228.2]: Reports job-instructor.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
job-instructor.com.	A	IN	14400	174.120.228.3
job-instructor.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns1.horse.arvixe.com.
job-instructor.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns2.horse.arvixe.com.
ns1.horse.arvixe.com.	A	IN	14400	174.120.228.2
ns2.horse.arvixe.com.	A	IN	14400	174.120.228.3

Looking up at the 2 job-instructor.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.horse.arvixe.com [174.120.228.2]	174.120.228.3
ns2.horse.arvixe.com [174.120.228.3]	174.120.228.3

The host for this domain is ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. of Houston, Texas on IP address 174.120.228.3.

***Latest News*** Initial entry 7th. January 2010