Rodney Lawrence International scam

Rodney Lawrence International Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Rodney Lawrence International scam screenshot 28-Jul-2009

This criminal fraud website should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the above screenshot of the criminal's website home page and the detailed evidence below are intended to identify this fraudster and this fraudster alone.

This Rodney Lawrence International fraud is one of an identical series of spamvertized bogus charity Russian criminal money mule scams reminiscent of the Happy Kids and Happy Children scams that were around not long ago. The criminal has previous dead identical aliases, (which is in itself clear evidence of criminal fraud), of Vincent Black International, Victor Oliver International, Kenneth Shelton International, Jimmy Hudson International, Arnold Bryant International, Bernard Herrera International, Erik Stanley International, Micheal Lewis International, Randall Barnes International and Ron Jenkins International. The site contents are all identical, only the fake name changes. The identical content of the known fraud websites is a patchwork quilt of content based on the genuine charity website of 'Habitat for Humanity'. Googling for unmangled scraps of text from the above shows that they always come back to the Habitat organisation or their many affiliates, for example this scrap and this scrap and so on throughout the site, for example, their 'who we are' page uses content taken from here. It does appear, however as though the habitat.org website has been updated recently. The criminal's fraudulent domain has been recently registered for the usual 'criminal's domain' one year minimum period with the usual unresponsive fraudsters registrar Xin Net Technology Corporation, their contact and location details are clearly bogus and they are not a registered organisation at their supposed location. The payload of this fake site is the usual clear money mule 'job' of 'Donations processing' which involves receiving 'donations', (stolen funds) to your bank account/home address and sending a balance back to these crooks using Western Union.

Evidence of Site Theft, Fraud & Spamming.

i) The Rodney Lawrence International fraud is identical to all of the numerous other dead and current aliases as listed above - only the fake name changes - clear evidence of fraud.

ii) Their initial domain rlawrencehome.org was registered with Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009 for the usual criminal's domain minimum period of only one year which makes a nonsense of their extravagant claims of achievements to date such as "At work in 89 nations, the ministry has housed more than 7500 individuals in 30 communities" taken from their 'who we are' page, (which actually Googles back to all of the crooks various aliases, plus the scam.com anti-fraud site that shows the scam going back to 2006 under other aliases).

iii) Stolen site content as evidenced above.

iv) No web presence - a Google search for "Rodney Lawrence International" returns zero relevant hits for this criminal apart from their own criminal website, of course. (Not to be confused with any other Rodney Lawrence named sites).

v) They are spamvertising the following clear money laundering mule job entitled "Donations Processing" under the 'Jobs' menu option:

Donations processing

Job Requisition # - 2045     Independent Contractor     n/a     Telecommuting     Confidential

This position is responsible for processing of donations.
Enjoy flexibility in working location and hours.

    * What we need from you?
      We need the responsible and punctual person who will be taking care of regional donations. "Taking care" means to make these donations reach the destination point as fast as possible. No delays. This is so because the donations are coming to a place where they are really needed this time. If donation is late, the charity action may not be performed at the proper time. That's why we require the punctuality from our applicants.
    * How does it work?
      You will be receiving tasks daily (in mornings) by e-mail. The task should be completed during the day. You shall dedicate 2-3 hours/day to complete it. The task will contain information on current donation passing through your hands. You will receive all details about where this donation is coming from, how to handle it, where it's going, and how to make the transfer of it.
    * Your salary and employment.
      Your will earn 7% from every donation you process. We also pay all the expenses and financial charges if such occur. We guarantee you will make $500 for the first week if you process all donations on time.

vi) There can be no argument about the criminal nature of that advertised 'job' - it is the clear and well documented 'money mule' function of accepting stolen money, (disguised as 'donations'), siphoned from unwitting victim's accounts into a private account and transferring them back out using Moneygram or Western Union.
No legitimate company would advertise for private citizens to do such a part-time illegal job working from home exchanging money, it is clear evidence that the company is both bogus and criminal.

vii) The 'contact us' details from the website:

Rodney Lawrence International Organization.
2518 Nieuwegein
The Netherlands.
Phone: 4000-57034,
Fax: 4000-57035

If you have questions and comments about our company, please send a message to publicinfo@rlawrencehome.org.

Remember that the fake company is not a registered company in the Netherlands, (as evidenced below), so the above details are bound to be fake.

• - All of the criminal's known identical aliases have meaningless random numbers in the city of Nieuwegein, The Netherlands and different fake telephone numbers
• - A Google web search for the address 2518 Nieuwegein, The Netherlands returns zero hits, (apart perhaps from the criminal's own fake website, of course), which is not surprising as Nieuwegein is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands situated about 7 km South of the city of Utrecht and so the address "2518 Nieuwegein" is completely meaningless - it's a bit like saying "2518 Chicago, The USA" - it is self evidently a fake address.
• - A Google search for the telephone number 4000-57034 returns zero hits, (apart from the criminal's own website, of course).
• - A Google search for the Fax. number 4000-57035 returns zero hits, (apart from the criminal's own website, of course).
• - The telephone numbers are both clearly fake anyway - the format is wrong and the initial two/three digits, (the area code, i.e. 40), is for Eindhoven not Nieuwegein.

You don't get a much more clearly fake set of details than that.

viii) The company Rodney Lawrence International is not registered in the Netherlands company registry (KVK) (login & Password= teaser to check) - irrefutable evidence of a fake company.

ix) The Spam: (See also the identical Kenneth Shelton International alias for spam example):

From: Ronald Young <Ronald.Young@rlawrencehome.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Subject: Job opportunity at Rodney Lawrence Foundation

Dear xxxxx,

My name is Ronald Young and I am the HR manager for Rodney Lawrence Foundation.

I have just found your information at one of the careers web site and I think that you would be interested in two job opportunities at Rodney Lawrence Foundation:
CSR (20 hours weekly) and Corporate CSR (30 hours weekly).

Both positions involve a lot of responsibility, attentiveness and independence, but they are well rewarded. Annual incomes of CSR and Corporate CSR are US $32,400 and US $65,600, respectively.

xxxxx, if you are self-reliant enough to work at the convenience of your own home or office, and if you are a quick learner and ready to develop your customer service and management skills, please contact me and I will give you a very detailed account of these positions.

Sincerely,

Senior HR manager,

Ronald Young

Ronald.Young@rlawrencehome.org
Rodney Lawrence Foundation

This message is the property of Rodney Lawrence Foundation. It may be confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this message.

If you reply to the spam asking for further details, this is the response that you get:

From: Ronald Young <Ronald.Young@rlawrencehome.org>
Reply-to: Ronald Young <Ronald.Young@rlawrencehome.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Subject Re: job opportunity at Rodney Lawrence Foundation

Dear xxxxx,

Donations processing/CSR is the part-time job position. We need the responsible and punctual person who will be taking care of regional donations. Taking care means to make these donations reach the destination point as fast as possible. You will receive all details about where this donation is coming from, how to handle it, where it's going, and how to make the transfer of it.

Your work will consist of tasks. Each task will be e-mailed to you and confirmed by the phone, if needed. Each task will contain instructions on how to process new donation(s). We use the contractors network to distribute the donations and instruct our sponsors to make donations into contractors business/name, they send it to the regional manager who distributes the donations to the contractors. The contractors distribute the donations to the families.

If you receive the donation as a money order, cashier, or other check, then you have to cash this check as instructed in e-mailed task, then distribute the funds to the Destinations as instructed. After we verify you sent the money, you will be assigned more donations. Depending if you work 20 or 30 hours per week your salary will be $32,400 or $65,600.

Please see Q & A section below for more details. This job can be done full time or part time. If you would like to get started please let me know and I will send you the contract.

Q & A

1. How do I handle the taxes? By the end of the year per your request we provide 1099 form which will be showing the amount you've earned.
2. I don't have to pay anything to get started, are there any fees after? No, there are no fees before or after you start.
3. Do I have to contact any third parties for donations? No, you don't have to contact anybody for donations, you will be getting them by mail from our regional manager.
4. Do I have to travle? No, you dont have to travel.
5. How do I get paid? CSR and Corporate CSR are salaried positions, not commission based. During the first 4 weeks, CSR is paid US $600 bi-weekly (once per two weeks) and Corporate CSR is paid $1000 bi-weekly. Starting from the 5th week, CSR is paid $400 weekly and Corporate CSR is paid $700 weekly. Finally you receive additional fixed bonus payments quarterly. CSR receives $2850 every three months; Corporate CSR gets $8000 every three months. In total, CSR is paid $32,400 per year (52 weeks) and Corporate CSR receives $65,600 for the same period.

Sincerely,

Ronald Young

Ronald.Young@rlawrencehome.org

Rodney Lawrence Organization

www.rlawrencehome.org

Not much to say, really - a pretty obvious and a pretty standard money mule scam spam. Nobody ever lasts more than a week or two, of course, before the first check comes back as fake, so the 'annual salaries' are all just flim-flam.

Website Domains, Registrars and Hosts

Domain

rlawrencehome.org

Other Domains Used By This Criminal

adiazhome.org
ewhitehome.org
ghamiltonhome.org
imeyerhome.org
kpowellhome.org
lchapmanhome.org

Registrar

Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009

Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009
Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009
Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009
Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009
Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009
Xin Net Technology Corporation on 13-Jul-2009

Host and IP address

LY-LY-COM (LIAOYUAN CITY,JILIN PROVINCE,CHINA) (221.8.126.20)

Key:
Active
Disabled/Suspended
Parked

Domain Whois Data:

Domain ID:D156636352-LROR
Domain Name:RLAWRENCEHOME.ORG
Created On:13-Jul-2009 04:58:59 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Jul-2009 04:59:26 UTC
Expiration Date:13-Jul-2010 04:58:59 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Xin Net Technology Corporation (R118-LROR)
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:28rjmvmnzl5pd4
Registrant Name:QingFen
Registrant Organization:Qing Fen
Registrant Street1:Xi An City.China
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Xi An
Registrant State/Province:Shanxi3
Registrant Postal Code:235467
Registrant Country:CN
Registrant Phone:+86.4951095771
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+86.4951095771
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:lixing688@gmail.com
Admin ID:28rjmvmnzl5pd4a
Admin Name:QingFen
Admin Organization:QingFen
Admin Street1:Xi An City.China
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Xi An
Admin State/Province:Shanxi3
Admin Postal Code:235467
Admin Country:CN
Admin Phone:+86.4951095771
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:+86.4951095771
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:lixing688@gmail.com
Tech ID:28rjmvmnzl5pd4a
Tech Name:QingFen
Tech Organization:QingFen
Tech Street1:Xi An City.China
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Xi An
Tech State/Province:Shanxi3
Tech Postal Code:235467
Tech Country:CN
Tech Phone:+86.4951095771
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:+86.4951095771
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:lixing688@gmail.com
Name Server:NS85.MERSEINEHOST.COM
Name Server:NS103.MERSEINEHOST.COM

Network Data:

DNS Lookup: rlawrencehome.org A record
DNS Lookup: rlawrencehome.org A record
Searching for rlawrencehome.org A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to C0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO. (zone: org.)
Searching for rlawrencehome.org A record at C0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO. [199.19.53.1]: Got referral to ns103.merseinehost.com. (zone: rlawrencehome.org.)
Searching for rlawrencehome.org A record at ns103.merseinehost.com. [216.150.78.98]: Reports rlawrencehome.org.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
rlawrencehome.org.	A	IN	86400	221.8.126.20
rlawrencehome.org.	NS	IN	86400	ns103.merseinehost.com.
rlawrencehome.org.	NS	IN	86400	ns85.merseinehost.com.

Looking up at the 2 rlawrencehome.org. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns85.merseinehost.com [216.150.78.98]	221.8.126.20
ns103.merseinehost.com [216.150.78.98]	221.8.126.20

The host of this criminal fraudster is LY-LY-COM (LIAOYUAN CITY, JILIN PROVINCE,CHINA) on IP address 221.8.126.20

***Latest News*** Page created 28th. July 2009

***Latest News*** 23rd. September 2009
The criminal appears to have parked his fraud domain rlawrencehome.org on the Bahamian SecureHost (CABLEBAHAMAS - AS15146) IP 208.87.33.151 for some reason.