Star Net is one of a
number of identical Russian 'technoscams'
including Unix
Hosting, Sun
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 website. The 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 Hostinghere 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. TheJob 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
Maintain and operate day-to-day campaign spend and allocation for internal paid application.
Identify and analyze data/performance trends and communicate performance numbers to management on a weekly basis.
Identify and execute optimization initiatives to increase campaign ROI.
Drive global coordination, prioritization, and planning for our paid programs.
Identify, document, and communicate global electronic paid best practices.
Share accountability for meeting Transfer Department team's aggressive revenue and efficiency targets.
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
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:
Domain
Type
Class
TTL
Answer
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.200
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.201
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.202
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.203
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.204
star-net-llc.org.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.205
star-net-llc.org.
NS
IN
86400
yns2.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.
NS
IN
86400
yns1.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.
NS
IN
86400
ns9.san.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.org.
NS
IN
86400
ns8.san.yahoo.com.
yns1.yahoo.com.
A
IN
1800
66.218.71.205
yns2.yahoo.com.
A
IN
1800
216.109.116.20
ns8.san.yahoo.com.
A
IN
1800
66.218.71.205
ns9.san.yahoo.com.
A
IN
1800
216.109.116.20
Status: Records all match.
Looking up at the 2 star-net-llc.org. parent servers:
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:
Domain
Type
Class
TTL
Answer
star-net-llc.net.
A
IN
1200
216.39.58.87
star-net-llc.net.
NS
IN
86400
yns1.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.
NS
IN
86400
ns9.san.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.
NS
IN
86400
yns2.yahoo.com.
star-net-llc.net.
NS
IN
86400
ns8.san.yahoo.com.
Looking up at the 2 star-net-llc.net. parent servers:
Server
Response
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.