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Transfer Invest Inc.
Transfer Invest Inc is another huge Russian money laundering scam that has at least ten current identical aliases that I know of -Transfer Invest Inc. Best Finance Invest Inc., Best Money Invest Inc.,
US Money Invest Inc, Global EU Invest Inc., First Promote Invest Inc., EU Trust Invest Inc., E-Investments Provider Inc. and Digital Investment Projects Inc. They also have a lapsed alias of World Market Invest Inc. but the domain for that alias appears to have been suspended, Oh, and 'Future Invests Inc.' has been mentioned in the spams as well. In fact the more you look, the more of this crooks alter egos you find, e.g. e-Digital Corporation Inc. I could hold a competition for the most of this criminal's fraud websites found.... If you find any more, please let me know, (I'm losing the will to live). [Hint] Google using scraps of text in quotation marks from the website.

This fraud site should not be confused with any legitimate site that may have a similar name - the above imagery betrays the fraud site.

Evidence of Spamming and Criminal Fraud:

i) These criminals send out huge amounts of spam purporting to have "seen your resume on Monster", looking for a response and if you do respond you get an email proposing an obvious money laundering mule job
, (see examples below).

ii) Numerous absolutely identical websites as listed above, all supposedly different companies, all advertising the same money laundering mule positions, all the same contact details and all the same bogus 'registration details'.

iii) Spammers - example spam below.

iv)  Contact Details:

Staroalekseevskaya 7, Moscow, Russia, 129626

Telephone number: +1 (818) 574-6195
Fax Number: +1 (866) 875-1667
Department head: Mark Sheppard
E-Mail: info@transferinvest.com


Note the address in Moscow but the bogus telephone numbers are US numbers judging by the international dialling code.


v) Bogus 'government registration codes':


Our Goverment Registration Codes:

TAX ID: 00003790098
License code: 01047000
Europe CTK: DE-0007863

They don't say WHAT government, (presumably Russian), but the above bogus codes appear identically on at least ten totally different bogus company's websites, as listed above, so they are obviously fake.

vi) From the website 'About Us' page: "Transfer Invest Inc. was founded in 1999 and obtained a license for activity engaging at the same time. Our company acquired impeccable reputation of a reliable partner taking part in purchase and sale of securities." However, all the domains of these fraudsters have been registered in the last week or less.

vii) "
Transfer Invest Inc." has no internet presence at all, apart from recognition as spammers and scammers.


Known Website Domains

transferinvest.com
financeinvestsite.net


Registrar
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE (Yahoo)
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE (Yahoo)
Registration Date

23-Nov-2007
11-jan-2008

DNS Data:
(transferinvest.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for transferinvest.com A record at i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for transferinvest.com A record at M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.55.83.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: transferinvest.com.)
Searching for transferinvest.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205]: Reports transferinvest.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.192
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.193
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.194
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.195
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.196
transferinvest.com. A IN 600 216.39.58.197
transferinvest.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
transferinvest.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
transferinvest.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
transferinvest.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
ns8.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
ns9.san.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20
yns1.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 66.218.71.205
yns2.yahoo.com. A IN 1800 216.109.116.20

Looking up at the 2 transferinvest.com. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20]  216.39.58.203 216.39.58.204 216.39.58.205 216.39.58.206 216.39.58.207 216.39.58.208
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205]  216.39.58.201 216.39.58.202 216.39.58.203 216.39.58.204 216.39.58.205 216.39.58.206

DNS Data: (financeinvestsite.net)

How I am searching:

Searching for financeinvestsite.net A record at i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for financeinvestsite.net A record at A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: financeinvestsite.net.)
Searching for financeinvestsite.net A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [216.109.116.20]: Reports financeinvestsite.net. Response:
DomainTypeClassTTLAnswer
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.198
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.199
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.200
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.201
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.202
financeinvestsite.net.AIN1200216.39.58.203
financeinvestsite.net.NSIN86400ns8.san.yahoo.com.
financeinvestsite.net.NSIN86400yns1.yahoo.com.
financeinvestsite.net.NSIN86400ns9.san.yahoo.com.
financeinvestsite.net.NSIN86400yns2.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

Looking up at the 2 financeinvestsite.net. parent servers:

ServerResponse
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205] 216.39.58.194 216.39.58.195 216.39.58.196 216.39.58.197 216.39.58.198 216.39.58.199
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20]Timeout


The fraudster is using the Yahoo 'small business network as often seen used by these criminals.

Spam Headers:





Spam Body Example (Initial Contact): 


John Doe: Job offer

We have found your resume at Monster.com and would like to suggest you a "Transfer manager" Njli NjM

vacancy. We have studied your resume and are happy to inform you that your skills ZTk xMTI

completely meet our requirements for this position.
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This is a part-time position. Your job will be to transfer money between our clients.

Your job will con sist in the following:MjQ 4YTA

  • Receive the check by mail

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  • Cash the check within a business day, excluding days off

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  • 8% of the amount are left for yourself as a commission. You take it immediately

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  • The rest of the sum is to be sent via western union to us to the address which will be OWE 0OWQ

    mentioned in the e-mail. Transaction fees shall be paid out of the same sum.

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Your schedule will be flexible. You will need to spend on average 1-2 hours per day, Monday-Friday.
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This is a work-at-home position. All communication will be online.
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This job will allow you to:
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- Get financial independence working only 3-5 hours per day; MGF kZT

- Efficiently work at home; MG FkZ

- Develop high selfrespect and esteem. MGFk ZTU

General requirements:
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- Internet and e-mail skills; Experience in online work; YjR jZ

- Prior customer service experience is a good benefit; Yj Rj

- Willingness to take the responsibility to set up and achieve goals; Ym YzN2

- Ability to create good administrative reporting;
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During the trial period you will be paid $1,500 per month. You will also be keeping 8 percent commission
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from every check received from our customer. With the current ammount of clients your average
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income will be about up to $2,000 USD per month. After the trial period your base salary will go up to
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$2,250 USD per month, plus 8 percent commission.After the trial period you may ask for additional hours or
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proceed full-time.

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If you are interested in this position, and would like to know more, please e-mail me

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We will contact y ou within 2 days


Note the Bayesian filter avoidance text.


Spam Body Example (Follow Up email)


Dear John Doe

PLEASE, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL, PLEASE REPLY TO
service@transferinvest.com

Thank you for interesting us.

If  you  agree  to undertake a job in our company as a Financial Agent
you should proceed as following

John Doe Your job will consist in the following:

- Receive the check from our clients
- To cash carrying amount within a business day, excluding days off 8
of  the  amount  are  left  for  yourself as a commission. You take it
immediately
-  The  rest  of  the sum is to be sent via western union to us to the
address  which will be mentioned in the e-mail. Transaction fees shall
be paid out of the same sum.

Your salary in the amount of $ 1500 will be effected into your account
on the 15- th of each month

JohnDoe IF  YOU  ARE  WILLING  TO  WORK  WITH  US PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR PERSONAL
DETAILS

- Your full name

- Your postal address

- Your phone number

DOWNLOAD CONTRACT HERE  http://transferinvest.com/contract.doc

We need you to sign the contract and send it us back
via e-mail service@transferinvest.com

                   or by fax: (800)-657-0135

You can get started as soon as our juridical department fulfills
identification.

Our Company

Future Invests Inc. the competence of leading consultants, specialists
and  analysts  in  the  sphere of investment and strategic consulting.
Project  groups  and  a  high-qualified  manager  are assigned to each
project.  This  method guarantees individual approach to every client,
adequate  understanding  of  his  problems  and in the meantime allows
solving a complete range of objectives settled. Competence in business
specifity of every client ensures a high level of service granted.

While  dealing with us, our clients appreciate not only individual and
complex   approach   to   their  order,  but  also  a  high  level  of
responsibility  for  the results obtained. The portfolio of successful
projects  carried out byFuture Invests Inc. is a striking illustration
to  this  fact. Our consulting service is a real support for business.
We solve concrete problems, such as investment and finance attraction,
successful  entry  into  the market, acquisition and sale of business,
etc.

We  cooperate  with  the largest and most competent consultant experts
and  closely  communicate  with  national  and worldwide corporations,
finance and strategic investors and banks for our clients' convenience
in  the  process  of  the  goals' achievement. In order to enhance the
efficiency  of  your  business,  we  offer professional service in the
spheres of trading, optimization of business-processes, investment and
property's transformation for national and international enterprises.

Our  goals  are  to  build  and maintain long-term business relations:
partnership  - with clients and suppliers social responsibility - with
staff , government and society

We would like the members of business community to know that
Future Invests Inc. is:
a leader on the market of professional services
a trustworthy and reliable team of competent experts oriented on clients
a company, rendering B2B services on principally new level -
professional services and complex projects in the sphere of investment,
property transformation and business-processes optimization.

Cooperation with our company is an opportunity to:
provide your enterprise with all the necessary resources, attracting
investments
make a profitable capital investment
obtain professional advisory support for investment problems
cancel the accounting and legal services upkeep
concentrate directly on Your business

You can find more information on our web-site:
http://transferinvest.com


       We hope for mutual favorable cooperation


Note the mistaken reference to "Future Invests Inc." where the criminals have missed the reference to a previous alias.

The Contract
If you click on the contract link in the follow-up email, you get a Word document consisting of the following money mule contract document:

INTERNATIONAL LONG DISTANCE WORK-PROGRAM

 

Transfer Invest Inc,

Staroalekseevskaya 9,

Moscow, Russia, 129620

Phone: +1(206) 734-4875

Fax: 1 (866) 875-1667

E-mail: info@transferinvest.com

 

AGREEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT

TRANSFER MANAGER

THIS AGREEMENT made this __________ day, of ____________ 2007 between           Transfer Invest Inc., [Staroyarskaya 9 Moscow, Russia, 129620] ("Employer"), and __________________________, residing at [ _________________ ] ("Employee").

 

The rights and responsibilities of the participants

1. Employment. The Employer hereby employs the Employee, and the Employee hereby accepts employment as [TRANSFER MANAGER], upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.


2. Duties.
The Employee shall perform his duties as [Transfer Manager]. The Employee shall be responsible for all the duties commensurate with his position of [Transfer Manager], as directed, established and assigned by the Employer from time to time including without delay.

The employer should provide the Employee with the job within 5 (five) days after signing the contract, pay the monthly salary (1500 USD during the one month trial period, 2250 USD after the trial period) in time, using the following payments systems for transferring money: Western Union, Bank wire transfers.

Employer must provide the Employee with timely and detailed instructions and consultation.

Employee must execute the full amount of work qualitatively and timely, can not break the confidentiality of the documents, transactions and post mailings.

The Employee can not give the confidential information to the third persons and use confidential information for his own purposes.

Being the intermediary in financial operation the Employee must keep the terms of conducting the financial operations (notified in the individual instruction to the work task).

The Employee has the right to choose convenient kind of payments.

Employer has the right to impose a fine on the Employee if the Employee has destroyed or lost payments or has broken the agreement of the employment. As a fine employer may reduce payments . (Note that Employee is not responsible for the violation of the terms of the financial operations by the third persons).


3. Compensation. The Payments by the parts which are depending on the amount of the task made (the salary for different work activities is given in the enclosure to the agreement of employment. In some circumstances the salary may be changed but the rate of payments can't be less than indicated in the enclosure to the agreement of employment. If the employee transfers a payment with a delay our company claims damages from the employee. If the employee receives non-sufficient founds, canceled checks, or bad checks our company makes full refund. 


4. Holidays; Vacation
. The Employee shall be entitled to holidays and vacation in accordance with the prevailing policies of the Employer as in effect from time to time.


5. Termination
. The Employee or the Employer may terminate this Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder at any time, for any reason, or no reason, without cause. The employee must warn the employer about the decision of leaving the company and then the employee must continue working during two weeks. When this period is over the employee can termination the contract with the employer. The Employee shall have no right to receive any further compensation from the Employer. The Employer may terminate this Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder at any time, without prior notice, for cause. This Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder shall automatically terminate upon the Employee’s ceasing to be a Transfer Manager.


6
. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held or deemed to be invalid, such circumstance shall not have the effect of rendering any other provision of this Agreement invalid, inoperative or unenforceable, but such invalid provision shall, to the extent possible, be modified to render it valid, and if such provision is not capable of being so modified, this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid, inoperative or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein so as to give full force and effect to the remaining such terms and provisions.


7. Entire Agreement; Amendment. This writing constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and may not be modified, amended or terminated except by written agreement specifically referring to this Agreement signed by all of the parties hereto.


8.
Waiver. No waiver of any breach or default hereunder shall be considered valid unless in writing and signed by the party giving such waiver, and no such written waiver shall be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default of the same or similar nature.


9. Binding Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each party hereto, its successors and permitted assigns.


10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement.

 

11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the USA without regard to the law of the conflicts of law of such state.

Transfer Invest Inc

______________________                                                                           

Employee’s signature                                                                              Name: Mark Zorinov

                                                                                                            Title: President & CEO


EMPLOYEE PERSONAL DETAILS FORM

 

 

PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY IN BLOCK CAPITALS

 

1)Country/State_____________________________________________

 

2)City, ZIP code ____________________________________________

 

3)Postal address  ___________________________________________

 

4)Full name  _______________________________________________

 

5)Date of Birth  _____________________________________________

 

6)Home phone number  ______________________________________

 

7)Cellular phone number _____________________________________

 

8)Email  __________________________________________________

 


 

THE ENCLOSURE TO THE AGREEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT

 

 

The brief description of kinds of working activity, the sizes and the order of payments for executed work:

 

Intermediary financial operations (performance of the role of the intermediary

in bank operations)

The status of a transfer-manager allows being the intermediary between the participants of bank operations. (Thus, the transfer manager is obliged to keep confidentiality of transactions) To be the intermediary, a transfer-manager should specify the information on the checking account (he may use his regular account or create the separate checking account). The money that has come on your checking account or via checks is not your property and you cannot use in your own purposes or transfer to non-authorized third persons. The money that has come to your checking account or via checks must be sent within 24 hours under the essential elements specified in the instruction. For violation of terms of the transfer, penal sanctions as reduction of payments by 1% per each day of delay are applied.

 

The order and the sizes of payments:

A payment for an intermediary operations makes 8% of the sum of each transfer

 

 

Transfer Invest Inc.,

Staroalekseevskaya 9,
Moscow, Russia, 129620

Phone: +1(206) 734-4875

Fax: +1 (866) 875-1667

E-mail: info@transferinvest.com

http://www.transferinvest.com