Steffen Gems Design Fraud

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Steffen Gems Design scam website screenshot (01-Apr-2009)

This Steffen Gems Design criminal fraud website should not be confused with any other company with the same or similar name. The above screenshot and the following evidence defines this criminal alone.

Steffen Gems Design is the follow-on scam to very widespread reshipping/money laundering fraud scam with many aliases, including Swiss Espe, Serenity Exclusive, Sion Enge, S&E Sales Corp.(Swiss Jewelry) and S&E Sales Corp.(Solar Jewelry). Their identical websites were all based on the genuine Sundrani fine jewelry website template. The new scams follow the same MO by using a new identical website template and identical content for their other identical alias, Stockli Gems & Diamonds. As before, some of the website content is stolen from the Sundrani fine jewelry website. Their telephone number is the same as their previous frauds, although the address has moved to a fake Zurich address. The sites are clearly fake, their domains are all recently registered, their location details are identical and they have no internet presence other than fraud site listings and job website spams. They exist solely to try and give an air of legitimacy to a fake criminal job spamming campaign.

Steffen Gems Design : Evidence of Site Theft and Criminal Fraud

i) The Steffen Gems Design fraud website domain steffen-gems.com was only registered with REGTIME LTD. on 15-Feb-2009 for the usual fraudster's one year minimum period which makes a nonsense of their above claim to have: "over 30 years of experience".

ii) Following on from the above statement, A Google search for "Steffen Gems Design" shows a complete absence of genuine web presence, (i.e. other than the criminal's own website, fraud site listings, planted questions and an attack site masquerading as an embedded movie - exactly the same tactics as used by their previous frauds).

iii) The criminal 'Purchasing Agent' job solicitation from the website:

Career Opportunities

Purchasing Agent
As the love for Jewelry never seems to diminish, a career in jewelry has become a very attractive option. The jewelry industry includes bench jewelers, jewelry designers, suppliers and buyers. Most of our stores or chain stores need employees that specialize in buying precious materials to be use in our jewels. This is a salaried position that not requires investing and fashion knowledge. We'll Consider People from all kinds of backgrounds - sales and travel agent the experience it not at all needed.
Job Overview
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee/ Part-Time Employee

Base Pay: Salary expectations:
- Entry level $45,000 to $55,000
- Qualified/Experienced $55,000 to $75,000
- Career Potential $55,000 to $100,000+
Salaries can vary greatly based on the individual, job description, employee actions.
Other Pay: Profit Sharing, Cash Bon. Your compensation is based on your performance and is commensurate with experience and skill.
Relocation: No
Location: USA
Experience: No previous experience in jewelry and sales is required -you will have 24/7 manager's support.
Required Travel: Negligible

Job Requirements
· People in various professional fields
· Strong self-management skills
· Ability to complete daily procedures and responsibilities without direct supervision
· Local Candidates Only
· No Relocation Offered
· Must be 18 years or older to apply
· Basic Communication Skills

If this sounds like you, we have a Business Opportunity you can start today part time. Our company is expanding across the U.S. and is looking for hard-working, committed individuals to join our team of professionals working from home.

We realize employees are our most important resource, so we want you to be happy and feel appreciated as a valuable member of our team.

If you have not received our Offer, please see below for details of how to get in touch, where our helpful and friendly staff will be happy to help! Contact by e-mail to steffen_jewels@steffen-gems.com

This job is the well-known 'Purchasing Agent' fraud. This scam entails the victim purchasing high-value goods on his credit card and shipping them off to these criminals. The mug is then 'recompensed' by stolen funds credited to his credit card, (for which the crooks need to know the details!!!), or to his bank account. Eventually these funds come back as stolen, the victims bank account and all his assets are frozen and he faces large losses and a visit from the police - don't be tempted.

iv) The fake location details from the website:

Contact us

Steffen Gems Design
Kuttel Gasse, 8
8001 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel: +41(44)586 29 58

Contact Email
steffen_jewels@steffendesign.com

• - They've managed to mis-format their supposed own address, but it Googles as the address of the craft boutique Leibundgut AG among others, but certainly no sign of these crooks. It's also the same fake address and telephone number as used for their sister scam, Stockli Gems & Diamonds.
• - The Telephone number +41(44)586 29 58 is exactly the same telephone number as used for their other dead and active scams - clear evidence of fraud.

v) Steffen Gems Design are not listed in the Swiss Federal Company Register of registered company names - clear evidence of a fake company.

vi) Sample spam as recorded on Phishbucket.org - there are many more examples available on Google - these are heavy spammers.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates that the Steffen Gems Design website is a fraudulent website set up with intent to deceive. 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 invariably 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.

Steffen Gems Design Fraudsters hosting details

Main Domains, Registrars and Hosts

Domain

steffen-gems.com

Registrar

REGTIME LTD. - 15-Feb-2009

Host

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.

Host IP

74.52.238.247

Active
Suspended/disabled
Parked

DNS Data (Valid for domain steffen-gems.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for steffen-gems.com A record at j.root-servers.net [192.58.128.30]: Got referral to I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for steffen-gems.com A record at I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns1.zeohost.com. (zone: steffen-gems.com.)
Searching for steffen-gems.com A record at ns1.zeohost.com. [74.52.238.242]: Reports steffen-gems.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
steffen-gems.com.	A	IN	14400	74.52.238.247
steffen-gems.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns2.zeohost.com.
steffen-gems.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns1.zeohost.com.
ns1.zeohost.com.	A	IN	14400	74.52.238.242
ns2.zeohost.com.	A	IN	14400	74.52.238.243

Looking up at the 2 steffen-gems.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.zeohost.com [74.52.238.242]	74.52.238.247
ns2.zeohost.com [74.52.238.243]	74.52.238.247

The host for this criminal fraudster is ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. on IP address 74.52.238.247 - this is the same host and IP as for the criminal's Stockli Gems & Diamonds alias.

***Latest News*** Initial entry 1st. April 2009