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Star Net screenshot.

Star Net is one of a number of identical Russian 'technoscams' including
Unix HostingSun Hosting, Web Ground, Maestro Hosting, Web Star, M Web Hosting and no doubt others. All using a fake webhosting front company to hide the usual money laundering part time work from home 'job' that consists of accepting stolen funds from credit card fraud into your private bank account and transferring them back out via Moneygram or Western Union. In this case their current domain starnet-llc.biz was only registered with Melbourne IT (Yahoo) on 31-Jan-2008 and the registrant's whois details are hidden by Privacy Protect which is not the action of a legitimate company. Their website uses content stolen from a variety of places, including The Planet. For example, their "Executive team" texts are stolen from the Webhostingbuzz websiteThe photographs of their supposed Executive team are actually the Opera Software Executive team. Here is a Web Ground, (identical scam website), victim's story, from Rip-Off report, along with a couple of reports from victims of the identical fraud Unix Hosting here and here, plus Star Net reports here and here.

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

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) According to the Star Net home page (linked screenshot above):

"We have created and launched hundreds of successful websites since our inception".
However, their current domain star-net-llc.org was only registered with Melbourne IT (Yahoo) on 31-Jan-2008 and the registrant's whois details are hidden by Privacy Protect which is not the action of a legitimate company.

ii) The
Star Net Inc. website carries the following "PayFlow Gateway Administrator Vacancy" money mule criminal solicitation under the "Careers tab. The Job Description for this task is as follows:

Job Details
Job Title: PayFlow Gateway Administrator
Requisition Number 08-45638
Post Date 2/2/08
Location Home Based (working from home)
Branch/Dept. Transfer Department
Type On-line Vacancy
Status Part Time
Description The PayFlow Gateway Administrator will be part of the Transfer Department Team and be responsible for the development, execution, and transferring electronic currency between Pay Pal, Western Union and Money Gram systems for our customers. Focus will be on operations, reporting, budgeting, and planning of the company's on-going paid initiatives.
More info about this vacancy you can read here.

That is a clear 'money mule' function, transferring funds via Moneygram and Western Union. No legitimate company is going to advertise for this sort of part time, 'work from home' money transfer position among the uncertified general population overseas, to do so defines the company as both bogus and criminal.

Clicking on the 'more info' link above takes you to this text:

PayFlow Gateway Administrator Vacancy

The newly formed Transfer Department is responsible for driving the payments between eBay's paid systems, Pay Pal, Western Union and Money Gram. This Transfer Department is part of the Star Net team, whose mission is web hosting and web design service.

PayFlow Gateway Administrator Vacancy

The PayFlow Gateway Administrator will be part of the Transfer Department Team and be responsible for the development, execution, and transferring electronic currency between Pay Pal, Western Union and Money Gram systems for our customers. Focus will be on operations, reporting, budgeting, and planning of the company's on-going paid initiatives.

Responsibilities

Salary

$700 USD per week.

Training

Training by means of a several test transactions online. Training is free of charge.


iii) The critical sentence is the last one. The training is actually the job and consists of 'several test transactions' consisting of accepting stolen funds from credit card fraud into your account and transferring them back to the criminals via Moneygram and Western Union. After these fraud 'test transactions' are completed, all communication with the fake company ceases and no more is heard from them as per this victim's story from the identical Web Ground fraud. Clear evidence of criminal fraud.


iv) The criminals 'Executive Team' details have all been stolen from the Webhostingbuzz website and renamed, (albeit rather carelessly as the bio for the fake "Michael Maison" mistakenly includes a reference to the stolen persona of Alex). The photographs of their supposed Executive team are actually the Opera Software management team. Absolutely irrefutable evidence of criminal fraud.

v) 'Contact Us' Details from website:

Headquarters in NEW YORK, USA
Address

Star Net
1779 2ND AVE APT 9B
NY 10128-3635 NEW YORK
USA
Mailing address

Star Net
1779 2ND AVE APT 9B
NY 10128-3635 NEW YORK
USA

Tel:
    +1-800-719-8415
Fax:
    +1-800-895-4741
Telephone hours:
    9 am - 5 pm

Contact online
Satellite offices
San Diego, USA

Star Net
4242 Jutland Dr.
Suite 15
San Diego, CA 92117
Mountain View, USA

Star Net
692 E. El Camino Real
Suite 207
Mountain View, CA 94040
Tokyo, Japan

Star Net
Tokyu Ikejiriohashi bldg 1F
3-8-2 Higashiyama Meguro
Tokyo 153-0043

Tel: +81 3 5768 8223
Fax: +81 3 5768 8224
Beijing, China

Star Net
Rm. 1002, Full Tower
No.3 DongSanHuanZhong Road
100020, Beijing

Tel:
    +86 10 85 91 18 30

Seoul, Korea

Star Net
Suite 702, City Air Terminal, 152-6
Samsung-dong, Gangnam-gu,
Seoul, Korea

Tel: +82 2 551 3876
Fax: +82 2 551 3879

• - The 'satellite offices' are all exactly the same as for all of the criminal's other identical aliases, but the head office addresses differ. Clear evidence of fraud.

• - The New York 'headquarters' are supposedly in an apartment. I don't think so...



The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Star Net Inc. website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals 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 activity - 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.

 
Known Website Domains

star-net-llc.org
starnet-llc.biz
star-net-llc.net
star-net-llc.info

Registrar

Melbourne IT (Yahoo) 31-Jan-2008
Melbourne IT (Yahoo) 31-Jan-2008
Melbourne IT (Yahoo) 31-Jan-2008
Melbourne IT (Yahoo) 31-Jan-2008

Active
Suspended/DNS refused
Parked

Network Data

(Valid for domain star-net-llc.org, starnet-llc.biz)


How I am searching:

Searching for star-net-llc.org A record at k.root-servers.net [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to tld2.ultradns.net. (zone: org.)
Searching for star-net-llc.org A record at tld2.ultradns.net. [204.74.113.1]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: star-net-llc.org.)
Searching for star-net-llc.org A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205]: Reports star-net-llc.org. Response:
DomainTypeClassTTLAnswer
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.200
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.201
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.202
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.203
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.204
star-net-llc.org.AIN1200216.39.58.205
star-net-llc.org.NSIN86400yns2.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.NSIN86400yns1.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.NSIN86400ns9.san.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.NSIN86400ns8.san.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

Status: Records all match.

Looking up at the 2 star-net-llc.org. parent servers:

ServerResponse
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 216.39.58.192 216.39.58.208 216.39.58.209 216.39.58.235 216.39.58.236 216.39.58.237
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205] 216.39.58.198 216.39.58.199 216.39.58.200 216.39.58.201 216.39.58.202 216.39.58.203

The host for this criminal is the Yahoo 'small business network' so often used by these criminals.


Fraud Log

25th. July 2008
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 30th. July 2008
DNS for domain star-net-llc.org has been disrupted. New domain notified by site contact - starnet-llc.biz, still hosted on the above Yahoo small business network.

***Latest News*** 02-Mar-2009
The criminals domain starnet-llc.biz is parked - new domains spotted - star-net-llc.net and star-net-llc.info both, registered with Melbourne IT/Yahoo as so many of these crooks domains are and hosted on the unresponsive Yahoo IP 216.39.58.87. (Yahoo seem to have ceased their 'botnet-like' 'small criminals' network and are now hosting their criminal clients on single shared IPs).
Network Data

(Valid for domains
star-net-llc.net and star-net-llc.info)

How I am searching:

Searching for star-net-llc.net A record at l.root-servers.net [199.7.83.42]: Got referral to k.gtld-servers.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for star-net-llc.net A record at k.gtld-servers.net. [192.52.178.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: star-net-llc.net.)
Searching for star-net-llc.net A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports star-net-llc.net. Response:
DomainTypeClassTTLAnswer
star-net-llc.net.AIN1200216.39.58.87
star-net-llc.net.NSIN86400yns1.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.NSIN86400ns9.san.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.NSIN86400yns2.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.NSIN86400ns8.san.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 star-net-llc.net. parent servers:

ServerResponse
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168]216.39.58.87
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32]216.39.58.87

The host of this criminal fraudster is listed as Altavista (Yahoo) on IP address 216.39.58.87

***Latest News*** 12th. March 2009
News from Simon Bear - Yahoo have at long last disabled the criminal's domains star-net-llc.net and star-net-llc.info. I wonder how many victims they have recruited while Yahoo have been dragging their feet. Please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.


***Latest News*** 8th. May 2009
Page consigned to archive - please notify me of any activity from this criminal.