VERO DESIGN, INC. (Stolen Identity) Fraud
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This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the website screenshot and the following fraud evidence refer to this fake company alone and no other. The website has been stolen from a genuine Russian company. These criminals have also stolen the identity & location details of a genuine Florida registered company of the same name who, needless to say, have nothing whatsoever to do with these criminals.
VERO DESIGN, INC. (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 02-Feb-2010
VERO DESIGN, INC. (Stolen Identity) scam screenshot 02-Feb-2010

VERO DESIGN, INC. (Stolen Identity) is just one of the numerous fake Russian scam sites that exist solely to ensnare the unwary, whether it is to 'phish' for bank details or mainly to recruit money mules. The complete fraud website content has quite clearly been stolen from the verified genuine Russian company Home Design and modified to suit this criminal's purposes, in particular the addition of a 'Careers' menu option that doesn't exist on the genuine website and leads to the criminal's money mule job. The fake website was only recently set up, (for instance, the domain verodesigninc.com was only registered with the registrar MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 22-Jan-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year) and contains a clear money mule solicitation of U.S. Representative/Financial manager under the Careers tab. Notice the illiterate line in the above screenshot "a member of the Europen Chamber of Commerce" - the 'Runglish' style of poor English and grammar is a common thread of these Russian criminals. Their other identical fraud aliases are/were Vidal Architects, Inc, Design Resources, Inc, Design Build Studio, Inc, Design 2 Studio LLC., First Design Group, Design to Perform, DESIGN BUILD INNOVATIONS, L.L.C, N Design Studio, Inc, Euro-Design Corp, The Design Studio, LLC (The Desugn Studio, LLC), DESIGN 4 ADVERTISING, INC., Design Pro Screens, Inc., International Design Center, LLC, HOUSE & DESIGNS, INC., Design & Promotions Corporation, The Design Agency, LLC, Design Products Inc., DESIGN +, INC., DESIGN ACCENTS, INC., International Design Source, Inc, Design For You llc, Design Engineering, INC, DESIGN FORCE, LLC, DESIGN FACTORY INC., DesignNext, Advanced Design Services, Inc, DESIGN EXTENSIONS, LLC and the Design Group 7 Inc fraud among others - this is clearly a serial fraudster which is clear evidence of fraud in itself. As per their usual MO, these criminals have stolen the identity of this genuine Florida based design company.
Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) The VERO DESIGN, INC. (Stolen Identity) criminal's website has quite clearly been stolen from the genuine genuine Russian company Home Design so any claims made in it are not relevant to the criminals, although they do carry the claim "Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world" under this 'Careers' menu option. However, the fact that their initial domain verodesigninc.com was only registered with MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) on 01-Feb-2010 for the usual 'criminal's domain' minimum period of only one year is clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) This fraud is simply an identical follow-on fraud to all their other identical aliases as listed above - clear evidence of a serial fraudster.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, despite claiming to have been in business since 1998, (as evidenced below), "VERO DESIGN, INC." have no genuine Google internet presence at all, (ignoring their own fake website, of course - you'd expect to find that). Don't be misled by listings for other companies of the same name, especially this design company that they have clearly stolen the identity of - Irrefutable evidence of fraud.

iv) The payload of the fake website is the following crystal clear money mule criminal solicitation under the Careers tab:
U.S. Representative/Financial manager Job

About Company:

Our company primarily deals in design activities for corporate and residential ground plans. Our business unit is experienced in both creation and implementation of plans conceived.

-       Accommodations

-       Premises design

Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world.  Although we are currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the arms of our innovation have reached the four corners of the planet. We maintain a direct and diligent marketing process in the United States, and repeatedly offer services that are ahead of the industry “curve” in both pricing and quality.  Our advantages lay in certain benefits our Europen clientele experience that only an overseas company can provide:

   1. We are able to offer similar products for lower than standard pricing; we are able to cheaply staff our Moscow office
   2. Our Home Office is staffed with industry experts with over 8 decades of combined experience 

Why do we need U.S. Representative/Financial manager?

When we initially started operations in the United States, we experienced some issues with US trade laws that can be summarized into two different problems:

   1. All financial services operations have to take place inside the USA
   2. Customers cannot make payments to a company don’t have offices inside the US, even if the company is an industry leader around the world.  Our Home Office is located in Russia, which is why customers are not able to directly transfer money (payments for our designs) to our office in Russia. Under US law, the funds must be deposited into the account of the Financial Manager of Staffing Solutions that resides in the USA.  Then, it is the Financial Manager’s responsibility to transfer the funds to our business in Russia. The company has to be registered in the US tax administration, which we have already finished. By maintaining a Financial Manager in the US, we are able to solve both of these problems and continue to help the companies that need us in the USA.

Main duties include receiving payments from customers:

   1. Bank checks
   2. Wire transfers
   3. Certified funds

Compensation:

The Financial Manager will be entitled to 5% of all completed transactions. The maximum turnover handled by a single manager is limited the by company’s policy and is set at $100,000 per month. Thus the maximum monthly pay will constitute $3,000-5,000. 

Type of Employment:

Agreement 

Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week 

Important:

We also have a business proposal for US company owners and managing directors. Private US businesses can accept funds from our customers with no limitations with a monthly turnover of up to 500,000.00 US dollars. Their profit is set at 7.5% of the turnover and may constitute $40,000.00 monthly. Please apply if you have a legal running business and are interested in this offer. 

You can combine this job with your current job, because you'll spend no more than 3 hours per week. This job can become perfect addition to your current job.
v) You do not get a much clearer definition of the illegal 'part time' money mule function of receiving stolen funds to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals via Western Union or Moneygram which on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus and is clear evidence of criminal fraud. The potential for absolutely massive fraud is self evident from the "business proposal for US company owners".

vi) No legitimate company is going to advertise for this sort of illegal part time, 'work from home' money transfer position among the untrained, inexperienced and uncertified general population overseas. The additional 'business proposal' shows the potential sheer scale of this criminal fraud operation - don't be part of it or you will lose a lot of money and perhaps your liberty.
vii) The Spam:
Monday, February 8, 2010
From: "VERO DESIGN" <manager@verodesign-inc.com>

Dear xxxxxxxxx,
We have new vacancies:
Financial manager
Candidate requirements:

* Willingness to work from home, take responsibility, set up and achieve goals
* Ability to create good administrative reporting
* Prior customer service experience is a good benefit, but not a must
* Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations
* Effectively interaction with customers
* Familiar to working online, Internet and e-mail skills
* USA resident.

General:
This job will allow you to:
* Work efficiently from home;
* Increase available personal time
* Achieve financial independence in half the normal time (1-3 hours per day)
* Develop high self-respect and esteem.

For more information you can also visit our website www.verodesign-inc.com
If you are interested this position please reply me ASAP.
viii) and the follow-up:
Monday, February 8, 2010
From: "VERO DESIGN" <manager@verodesign-inc.com>
VERO DESIGN

Dear xxxxxxxxx,
My name is Tina Guzman. I'm working as manager of Staff Department.
I'm involved to searching new employees. I have sent you all information on
the vacancy couple minutes ago.
I just want to make sure that you received it. Please confirm that you
received my initial message with information.
Sincerely,
Tina Guzman
ix) Fake staff: This 'Team' doesn't change between aliases, (except for the name of the fake 'director'). This time the same old face is Victor Vero, (Other identical faces from the above list of aliases have various different names as listed in the fraud documentation - clear evidence of fraud):

Team

x) Another identical alias, another set of fake contact Details & fake certificates for this serial criminal from their 'Business Licence' page:

N.B. - the usual MO of these criminals is to steal the identity and location details of a genuine Florida based design company who, needless to say, has nothing to do with these criminals.

 VERO DESIGN, INC. 

RUSSIAN ADDRESS
3451 Serova st.
Moscow, 422000
Russian Federation  

***The following address details are stolen and so have been converted to an image***

fake address
• - The above Florida address is simply the address of the genuine Florida based design company whose identity they have clearly stolen.
• - A Google search for the address "3451 Serova st. Moscow" returns no hits for these criminals, (ignoring any occurrences of their own fake website, of course).
• - A Google Maps search for the address details "3451 Serova st. Moscow" also returns no hits.
• - A Google Search for the DUNS number 78-738-0383 also returns no hits.
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the fake VERO DESIGN, INC. website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals purely for the purpose of spamvertising an illegal money laundering 'mule' job of receiving 'customer's payments' to a personal checking account and transferring a balance back to these criminals. 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 serial 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

verodesigninc.com
verodesigninc.net
verodesign-inc.com
Registrar

MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 01-feb-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 04-feb-2010
MELBOURNE IT, LTD. (Yahoo as reseller) - 08-feb-2010
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Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
 Yahoo on IP addresses 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
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Active
Suspended/Disabled
Parked
Domain Whois Data (Any personal whois details for the following criminal fraud domains are fake or stolen and so have been redacted).
Domain Name.......... verodesigninc.com
Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 01-feb-2010   Updated 01-feb-2010  Expires 01-feb-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

  Creation Date........ 2010-02-02
  Registration Date.... 2010-02-02
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-02-02
  Organisation Name.... *********************
  Organisation Address. *********************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. LINDEN
  Organisation Address. 07036
  Organisation Address. NJ
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... *********************
  Admin Address........ *********************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ LINDEN
  Admin Address........ 07036
  Admin Address........ NJ
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... *********************
  Admin Phone.......... *********************
  Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
  Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
  Tech Address.........
  Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
  Tech Address......... 94089
  Tech Address......... CA
  Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
  Tech Email........... domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
  Tech Phone........... +1.4089162124
  Tech Fax.............
  Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
  Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com 		Domain Name.......... verodesigninc.net
Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 04-feb-2010   Updated 04-feb-2010  Expires 04-feb-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

  Creation Date........ 2010-02-05
  Registration Date.... 2010-02-05
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-02-05
  Organisation Name.... *********************
  Organisation Address. *********************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. Monticello
  Organisation Address. 71657
  Organisation Address. AR
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... *********************
  Admin Address........ *********************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ Monticello
  Admin Address........ 71657
  Admin Address........ AR
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... *********************
  Admin Phone.......... *********************
  Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
  Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
  Tech Address.........
  Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
  Tech Address......... 94089
  Tech Address......... CA
  Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
  Tech Email........... domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
  Tech Phone........... +1.4089162124
  Tech Fax.............
  Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
  Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
 Domain Name.......... verodesign-inc.com
Registrar:     MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Status:        clientTransferProhibited
Dates:         Created 08-feb-2010   Updated 08-feb-2010  Expires 08-feb-2011
DNS Servers:   YNS1.YAHOO.COM  YNS2.YAHOO.COM 

  Creation Date........ 2010-02-09
  Registration Date.... 2010-02-09
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-02-09
  Organisation Name.... *********************
  Organisation Address. *********************
  Organisation Address.
  Organisation Address. Lompoc
  Organisation Address. 93436
  Organisation Address. CA
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... *********************
  Admin Address........ *********************
  Admin Address........
  Admin Address........ Lompoc
  Admin Address........ 93436
  Admin Address........ CA
  Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
  Admin Email.......... *********************
  Admin Phone.......... *********************
  Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
  Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
  Tech Address.........
  Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
  Tech Address......... 94089
  Tech Address......... CA
  Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
  Tech Email........... domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com
  Tech Phone........... +1.4089162124
  Tech Fax.............
  Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
  Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
DNS Lookup: verodesigninc.com A record
Searching for verodesigninc.com A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for verodesigninc.com A record at K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.52.178.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: verodesigninc.com.)
Searching for verodesigninc.com A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports verodesigninc.com.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
verodesigninc.com. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
verodesigninc.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
verodesigninc.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
verodesigninc.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 verodesigninc.com. parent servers:
Server Response
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is listed as Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138.
***Latest News*** 2nd. February 2010
Webpage created
***Latest News*** - 5th. February 2010
Information from Simon Bear - Yahoo have disabled the domain verodesigninc.com and the criminals are straight back up on another Melbourne IT/Yahoo domain, verodesigninc.net. Please notify me of any other active domains for this criminal.
DNS Lookup: verodesigninc.net A record
Searching for verodesigninc.net A record at l.root-servers.net [199.7.83.42]: Got referral to c.gtld-servers.net. (zone: net.)
Searching for verodesigninc.net A record at c.gtld-servers.net. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to yns2.yahoo.com. (zone: verodesigninc.net.)
Searching for verodesigninc.net A record at yns2.yahoo.com. [66.196.84.168]: Reports verodesigninc.net.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
verodesigninc.net. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
verodesigninc.net. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
verodesigninc.net. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
verodesigninc.net. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.net. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.net. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.
verodesigninc.net. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.

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

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is listed as Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138.
***Latest News*** - 5th. February 2010
News from Simon Bear - the domain verodesigninc.net has been deleted - please notify me of any active domains for this criminal.
***Latest News*** - 9th. February 2010
News from site contact - new domain verodesign-inc.com registered with and hosted by the usual suspects:
DNS Lookup: verodesign-inc.com A record
Searching for verodesign-inc.com A record at a.root-servers.net [198.41.0.4]: Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for verodesign-inc.com A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to yns1.yahoo.com. (zone: verodesign-inc.com.)
Searching for verodesign-inc.com A record at yns1.yahoo.com. [98.136.43.32]: Reports verodesign-inc.com.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
verodesign-inc.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.188
verodesign-inc.com. A IN 1200 69.147.83.187
verodesign-inc.com. A IN 1200 98.136.50.138
verodesign-inc.com. NS IN 86400 ns8.san.yahoo.com.
verodesign-inc.com. NS IN 86400 ns9.san.yahoo.com.
verodesign-inc.com. NS IN 86400 yns2.yahoo.com.
verodesign-inc.com. NS IN 86400 yns1.yahoo.com.

Looking up at the 2 verodesign-inc.com. parent servers:

Server Response
yns2.yahoo.com [66.196.84.168] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138
yns1.yahoo.com [98.136.43.32] 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138

The criminal's host is listed as Yahoo Inc. on IP address 69.147.83.187 69.147.83.188 98.136.50.138.