SP Group Fraud
Report
Active
Domain
Don't Bear Internet Fraud
Home
Bobbear Icon
SP Group banner
SP Group is just another of the numerous scam websites that has been set up to form a front for a money laundering job advertisement. (The identical job was posted by the Calisto Trading Inc., Reynolds Investment, & Simple Investments fraudsters and others). It's a bit slicker than most but at the end of the day its function is to con you into believing that they are a legitimate company when the evidence clearly demonstrates that they are crooks. It's an identical scam to Epayment Solutions Inc., Emarket Solutions Inc., Legal Operations Inc., Secure Operations Inc., Oranta Group Inc., Aska Group and Secure Financing Group frauds.

This fraudster should not be confused with any legitimate company of the same or similar name - the above website graphics and the included money laundering job clearly identify the fake website and these fraudsters.

SP Group : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) SP Group claim on their website "The company was set up in 1991 in New York, the USA by three enthusiasts having financial education", but the criminal's domain spgroup-main.cn was only registered with Bizcn.com on 08-J-2008.

ii) This statement from their "President's Word" page: "Currently our company is represented in more than 100 countries all over the world". is completely incredible as they have no internet presence on Google, except as spammers and scammers.

iii) SP Group are not listed at either the UK Companies House or the UK Financial Services Authority which they would have to be to be able to legally trade in the UK - this in itself defines them as a bogus and criminal company.

iv) On this page of their website they use a fake Yahoo finance site, a fake Serfreport website and a fake Stockhouse website to try to lend legitimacy to their company by showing bogus information for their fake company. The domain used for the fake Yahoo site is finance-yahoo.org which was registered with PublicDomainRegistry.com on 21-Aug-2007 by the ubiquitous Michelle Fischer with patently false whois data, the fake domain www-serfreport.com was registered with PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM on 13-Jun-2006 and the fake domain www-stockhouse.biz was registered with GODADDY.COM, INC. on 05-Feb-2008. They have other fake links, but the domains have been suspended.
 
v) This scam is related to the Calisto Trading Inc. scam among others & is identical to the Epayment Solutions Inc., Emarket Solutions Inc.. Oranta Group Inc., Legal Operations Inc. & Secure Operations Inc., Aska Group and the Secure Financing Inc. scams - it even has the same or more or less the same contact details for all the different companies.

vi) Among a whole smokescreen of unavailable jobs, here is the advertised job of "Financial Agent" posted on their website:

FINANCIAL AGENT
This vacancy is valid for American and Australian residents ONLY at the moment.
AVAILABLE

Location: Australia, USA
Status: Opened
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee

The major duty of the incumbent is to promptly receive and process stockbrokers' payments to further transfer them applying specified method. Please enquire for detailed work scheme.

Requirements: Payment basis: During the trial period you will be paid 1500 USD per month. You will also be keeping 8% commission from every payment received from a client. With the current volume of clients on average your overall income will add up to 3000 USD per month. After the trial period your base salary will go up to 2000 USD per month, plus 8% commission (11% for financial agents with corporate bank account).

Benefits: INTERESTING FACT:
Our analysts observe strongly pronounced economic growth in all departments of SP Group Inc. for the latest quarter of this year due to perfect and well coordinated work of our team. According to the statistics, 98% of SP Group Inc. financial managers being employed for less than three months are completely satisfied with their earnings and would like to upgrade professional skills and advance in their careers in our Company. The management of SP Group Inc. is striving for strengthening and expanding of the corporation in order to control the major part of financial services market.

Click here to know more about this vacancy

If you would like to apply to this vacancy and enquire more detailed information, please email at
job@sp-group-mail.cn. Time spent for consideration of your application can be reduced if you attach resume to your email.


In other words, just your average money laundering mule position.

vii) No legitimate company is going to spamvertise among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population for a "Financial Agent" acting as a spare time, work from home criminal money transfer agent accepting funds into a private account and transferring a balance out via Western Union. Such a proposition defines the company without doubt as criminal and fraudulent.

viii) The identical format of illegal job was posted by the Reynolds Investment, Calisto Trading Inc.,
Epayment Solutions Inc.Emarket Solutions Inc.. Oranta Group Inc., Legal Operations Inc. & Secure Operations Inc.Aska Group and the Secure Financing Inc. fraudsters.

ix) More details of the money mule function from the criminal's website:

Financial Manager

Location: Australia, USA
Is it available at the present moment: Yes
Employee Type: Part-Time employee

Job description:

You will receive money on your bank account from sale of the goods/services by our company. We shall provide you with detailed instructions relevant to payment processing operations, including full name of the sender and sum total in every particular case.

When funds are received on your bank account you have to cash and transfer the funds via International Wire Transfer or using International Western Union/Money Gram money transfer system. The main advantage of the service is the shortest possible time within which the seller can receive money for the servies/goods sold. If you delay this operation, our client will have the right to cancel the contract and we shall suffer financial losses. Please remember that you are handling money, be very responsible and careful!

Your compensation will be also deducted from the received funds on the commission basis. During the probationary period you will be paid 1500 USD per month plus 8-11% commission from each payment processing operation (11 % for financial agents with corporate/business accounts) With the current volume of clients on average your overall income will add up to 3000 USD per month. After the probationary period your base salary will go up to 2000 USD per month, plus 8-11% commission (11% for financial agents with corporate/business accounts).

You must process received assets during one business day, i.e. from money collection on your account to money re-sending to our client as indicated in the contract. Should money collection on your account is expected on day-off or holiday you have to complete all payment processing procedures within the following working day.

Every 14 days you will receive invoices for each transaction. This document is a confirmation of transaction validity, and in case of unforeseen circumstances it will evidence your personal non-participation. All invoices will contain detailed information about provider and will be sealed and certified by the President signature.

Since business transfers can be processed with delays, so your have to specify your transfer as a remittance of private character. It is also applicable in case of a third party interest in your transfer.

Our clients appreciate our performance and are ready to pay extra for shorter terms of transaction. If we manage to deliver the goods to the buyer within 10 days, the deal is considered to be fulfilled at the earliest possible date.

Probationary period imposes restrictions on the employment benefits of our corporation. You will be able to receive SP Group Inc. employment benefits only after you successfully complete the probationary period. Employment benefits include:
stock options, child-care subsidies, flex-time, business casual attire, free training and professional development programs.

Detailed information concerning the employment benefits will be sent to you after successful completion of probationary period

Candidate requirements:

Financial Agent Job Instruction

This instruction provides detailed description of operations you have to fulfill upon receiving money from our client on your account.

Transfer processing is completed.

In case of any malfunctions, contact SP Group Inc. Senior Manager by e-mail or through TaskManager internal mail immediately and describe the problem in details.

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

Fraudulent Attempts

Throughout our history fraudulent attempts from the part of Financial Agents to retain the transferred amounts were made only twice. Both cases were lodged to the court and resulted in considerable fines. Should you fail to contact us or cannot be contacted by phone within 12 hours upon receipt of the payment order, we have the right to send a message to Your bank with a claim to freeze the transfer and to check your account cash flow. In case the transfer is already withdrawn, an inquiry will be sent to the law authorities of your country.

We hope that our cooperation will be long-term and mutually beneficial 
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the SP Group website has been set up by money laundering fraudsters purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job. 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.
SP Group Fraudsters - current hosting details

Current Main Domains, Hosts and  Registrars
Domain

spgroup-main.cn
sp-group-mail.cn
 
Registrar

Biz.cn (08-Jan-2008)
Biz.cn (08-Jan-2008)
Host Network

Infobox.ru
Infobox.ru
Host IPs

77.221.133.184
77.221.133.181

Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.

Criminal Nameserver Domains and Registrars

N/A
The Spam Headers

Fresh spam required, full source code please or as an attachment.



The Spam Content



DNS Data (spgroup-main.cn)
How I am searching:

Searching for spgroup-main.cn A record at d.root-servers.net [128.8.10.90]: Got referral to B.DNS.cn. (zone: cn.)
Searching for spgroup-main.cn A record at B.DNS.cn. [203.119.26.1]: Got referral to ns1.www-news.biz. (zone: spgroup-main.cn.)
Searching for spgroup-main.cn A record at ns1.www-news.biz. [77.221.133.181]: Reports spgroup-main.cn. Response:
DomainTypeClassTTLAnswer
spgroup-main.cn.AIN360077.221.133.184
spgroup-main.cn.NSIN3600ns1.motohero2200.info.
spgroup-main.cn.NSIN3600ns1.westsport4000.biz.
ns1.motohero2200.info.AIN360077.221.133.181
ns1.westsport4000.biz.AIN360077.221.133.181

Looking up at the 2 spgroup-main.cn. parent servers:

ServerResponse
ns1.www-news.biz [77.221.133.181] 77.221.133.184
ns1.www-yahoo.biz [77.221.133.181] 77.221.133.184

The host is once again infobox.ru (77.221.133.184). Note the fake news.biz and yahoo.biz servers.

Fraud Blog Initial entry 3rd. March 2008

***Latest News*** 23rd. April 2008
Criminal registered nameserver domains www-news.biz and www-yahoo.biz suspended - no known active website.