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This Trust Company Inc scam has identical text formats to several other web based and email based frauds including Henwood Business Solutions, Finance International, E-Z Transfer, SurRate Inc, Des Group Inc., Business & Professional Consultants Inc., Renaissance Capital Advisors Ltd., and no doubt many others, in other words it's a standard run-of-the mill, patently transparent money transfer fraud of the type that are turned out by the dozen by the same bunch of criminals using the same hosts and registrars that they regularly use. It's exactly the same fraud as this email based one.

The name 'Trust Company' is pretty common - this fraudster bears no relation to any other company of a similar name and should not be confused. The above website graphics and the money laundering job below identify this fraudster.

Trust Company Inc. : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) Trust Company Inc claims on their website to have been "set up in 1997 in Los Angeles, CA, the USA by three enthusiasts", but the criminal's domain alliancecompanygroup.biz was only registered with Melbourne IT  on September the 25th. 2007.

ii) The domain name alliancecompanygroup.biz has nothing to do with the bogus company name.

iii) As you can imagine, Google throws up many hits for "Trust Company Inc." but none that have anything to do with these crooks.

iv) In the website text they are variously Trust Company Inc. and SurRate Inc., another alias that has many scammer hits in Google.

v) They can't even spell their bogus address correctly: "10000 Springs Ln., sutie 244. Norcross, GA 30092 USA".

vi) They are hosted on the Yahoo small business network so often favoured by these criminals.

vii) Of the six 'jobs' advertised on their website, this 'job' of 'Financial Agent' is the only one available and it uses almost exactly the same text as used by the Finance International scammers and others.:
• FINANCIAL AGENT •

Worldwide!
AVAILABLE

Location: Worldwide
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:
• Expert skill in managing payments and transfers between our company and clients.
• Knowledge of basic payment systems.
• Ability to schedule working hours effectively.
• Availability of spare time (3-4 hours per day).
• Advanced user ability to operate computer and to use Internet and e-mail.
• Legal age.
Payment basis: commissions in the amount of 7% from each transaction (monthly payments of the total earnings). The minimum salary is $2300 monthly.
In other words, just your average money laundering mule position.

viii) No legitimate company would use private individuals to transfer money in this way using private bank accounts. To do so is illegal and defines the company as both bogus and criminal.

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the  Trust Company Inc 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 money laundering activity and spamming - 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.
 Trust Company Inc. Fraudsters - current hosting details [Updated 31st.. December 2007]

Current Main Domains, Hosts and  Registrars
Domain

alliancecompanygroup.biz
alliancecompanygroup.com		 Registrar

Melbourne IT
Melbourne IT		 Host Network

Unhosted
Yahoo Small Business Network 		Host IP


See DNS data below

See table below for the full list of known active & suspended main domains used by this criminal.
Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.
Current Botnet Nameserver Domains and Registrars
Not botnet hosted at present - DNS data below. See table below for the full list of known active & suspended nameserver domains for this criminal.
The Spam Headers

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

The Spam Content

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

The Zombie Botnet

The criminal as not using a zombie botnet at this time. Normal DNS Data below.
Initial DNS Data (alliancecompanygroup.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for alliancecompanygroup.com A record at k.root-servers.net [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to h.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for alliancecompanygroup.com A record at h.gtld-servers.net. [192.54.112.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: alliancecompanygroup.com.)
Searching for alliancecompanygroup.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205]: Reports alliancecompanygroup.com. Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.208
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.209
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.235
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.236
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.237
alliancecompanygroup.com. A IN 1200 216.39.58.192
alliancecompanygroup.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
alliancecompanygroup.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
alliancecompanygroup.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
alliancecompanygroup.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.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 alliancecompanygroup.com. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [216.109.116.20]  216.39.58.196 216.39.58.197 216.39.58.198 216.39.58.199 216.39.58.200 216.39.58.201
yns1.yahoo.com [66.218.71.205]  216.39.58.193 216.39.58.194 216.39.58.195 216.39.58.196 216.39.58.197 216.39.58.198

The DNS data shows the all too familiar Yahoo 'small business' network so often used by these criminals.

Here are all of the known domains that are/have been used for the Trust Company Inc fraud:
Domain

alliancecompanygroup.biz
alliancecompanygroup.com		 Status

Active
Active
 		Registrar

Melbourne IT
Melbourne IT

Please notify me of any errors or domains not listed here.

i) The criminal will not respond to your challenge, but will use the notice to prepare a new network - immediate suspension is requested please, if allowed for by your AUP for offences of criminal fraud and spamming.

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Initial entry 31st. December 2007
***Latest News*** 21st. January 2008

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