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Joy Joseph is a run-of-the-mill illegal Russian money laundering mule job spamvertising website. It is a fairly poorly written website with little attempt made to disguise the clear money mule job that is the main purpose of the fraud website along with a secondary function of phishing for personal details which could be used for identity theft purposes. Their other known domains of joyandjoseph.com and jjservices.biz have been suspended, but here they are back up on joyjoseph.net.

This bogus company should not be confused with any other company of a similar name - the above website graphics and the clear money mule job characterise this fraud website.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) According to their home page: "Our company was founded in October 1999 to secure the anonymity and to speed up the deal process of enterprises for small business world wide. Since that time we've become leaders in this scope of activity". However, their latest domain joyjoseph.net was only registered with Tucows Inc. (Servage.net Hosting as reseller), on 09-jan-2008

ii) Considering the above claim, they have no internet presence - Google is only aware of them as scammers and spammers. Their claim is patently untrue.

iii)
Their website 'job' consists of  accepting money into your account and transferring it out to the crooks via Moneygram or Western Union for a percentage - the usual illegal money mule function - the following job details are from their website:

Employee of finance department

An applicant must:

- be capable to work;
- be older than 18;
- be capable working with deposit account receivables and payments to/from customers and our financial office;
- be able to spend not less than 2 hours per day to do this work;
- have knowledge to use PC, have an access to PC and Internet during the day.
The operating schedule is flexible, so, the work could suit students and people who search an additional income. However, the work has to be done fast and accurate. You are required to devote 5-8 hours per week. You will receive notifications on sending money on your account by one of the participants of the deal. After, you have to set up the date of arrival and also the total amount you received without taking into consideration the rate that the bank takes. You get % of this sum. Then you should write the remaining sum and send it by one of the system of money orders to the address that we will provide you with. The main system of money orders is Western Union. After the money transmitted in the Western Union system such is MTCN you will get a number of the transfer. After that you have to communicate it to us. Then you should only note in the Excel table all the information on the transfer. An example of the table will be sent to you after your job registration. In the end of each month the tables are compared with our data.

Example:

Your account has been credited for $5,000. Your commission in such case will be 10% or $500. You subtract this commission and send $4,500 to our corporate address. We also pay all balance transfer fees so you do not have to incur this expense

Agent commission table

Your commission compensation will depend from monthly trading volume:
>$5,000 you’ll get 10%
>$10,000 you’ll get 9%
>$20,000 you’ll get 8%
>$30,000 you’ll get 7%
>$40,000 you’ll get 6%
>$50,000 you’ll get 5%

Obtaining a job

In order to obtain this job you have to do the following:
1. Scan your passport, or your driving license and send it to us by e-mail or fax.
2. Print the contract and familiarize with it attentively. Then you must sign it and send to us by e-mail and also you should make a copy for you.
3. We strongly suggest you to open NEW checking account so we do not interfere our business financials with your personal. During first couple of month you can use your personal checking account.
After receiving these documents your data will be checked by security services. It takes 1 or 3 days. Then one of our managers will assist you. He will inform you about details of the job, and in case of any questions he will answer them.
The students often get a job as a Fiscal Agent. We established the contact with many colleges; their students do the practical work at our place. Most of them stay working and developing their career. This work takes not more than 4-5 hours per week, therefore you can combine it with your
studies, or with another job. The executive schedule is flexible. After obtaining a job you will work with your manager.


iv) Not only are the crooks proposing an obvious money mule function of receiving money into your bank account and transferring it back out to them via Money gram &/or Western Union for a percentage cut, (which is of course illegal), they are also asking for a scanned copy of your passport or your driving licence which is tantamount to phishing for identity theft purposes.

v) No legitimate company is going to spamvertise for this sort of illegal part time, 'work from home' money transfer position among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population, especially for overseas workers.


Known Website Domains

jjservices.biz (Suspended)
joyandjoseph.com (Suspended)
joyjoseph.net (Suspended)
Registrar

Tucows Inc. (Servage.net Hosting as reseller) (20-Sept-2007)
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) (18-Nov-2008)
Tucows Inc. (Servage.net Hosting as reseller) (09-Jan-2008)



DNS Data: (joyjoseph.net)

How I am searching:

Searching for joyjoseph.net A record at d.root-servers.net [128.8.10.90]: Got referral to H.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for joyjoseph.net A record at H.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.54.112.30]: Got referral to ns4.servage.net. (zone: joyjoseph.net.)
Searching for joyjoseph.net A record at ns4.servage.net. [77.232.81.1]: Reports joyjoseph.net. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
joyjoseph.net. A IN 86400 77.232.91.184
joyjoseph.net. NS IN 86400 ns1.servage.net.
joyjoseph.net. NS IN 86400 ns2.servage.net.
joyjoseph.net. NS IN 86400 ns3.servage.net.
joyjoseph.net. NS IN 86400 ns4.servage.net.

Looking up at the 4 joyjoseph.net. parent servers:

Server Response
ns3.servage.net [77.232.66.6]  77.232.91.184
ns4.servage.net [77.232.81.1]  77.232.91.184
ns1.servage.net [77.232.76.14]  77.232.91.184
ns2.servage.net [217.70.34.151]  77.232.91.184

The host of the criminals website is also his registrar - Servage Hosting on IP 77.232.91.184
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Fraud Log

***Latest News***26th. Jan. 2008
Webpage created

***Latest News***27th. Jan. 2008
Domain joyjoseph.net appears to have been taken down by Servage Hosting - no resolving domain known.