Vitrea Estate Group Fraud

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This Vitrea Estate Group criminal fraud website should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name. The following screenshot and the fraud evidence defines this criminal alone.

Vitrea Estate Group scam website screenshot (03-Jan-2010)

Vitrea Estate Group is a 'bog-standard' Russian money mule recruiting fraud along the lines of many other Russian fake estate agents frauds such as Carex Estate Ltd, International Real Estate, Poland Real Estate, World Estate Group, Casa Blanca Real Estate, etc, etc. It's the usual combination of a claim to have been in business for many years, but with the usual 1-year website domain recently registered with the usual unresponsive Russian registrar of many of these criminals, ANO Regional Network Information Center dba RU-CENTER, and also hosted on a Russian host, LOGOL-NET (Logol.ru), despite claiming to be an American company. They have the usual stolen website content, they are not a registered company, their location/contact details are bogus and the payload of the website is the heavily spamvertised, obvious, part-time, work from home, money mule position of accepting stolen funds to a personal bank account and transferring a balance back to these criminals in Russia or the Ukraine.

Vitrea Estate Group: Evidence of Site Theft and Criminal Fraud

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i) They claim to be located in New York, but a webcheck shows that Vitrea Estate Group are not registered in the NY state business register, clear evidence of a fake company. Check for yourself.

ii) They claim on their 'About Us' page to be as American as apple pie, but are Russian registered and Russian hosted - I don't think so, somehow....

iii) Stolen site content. The site content is stolen from various places to get over the usual 'Runglish' problem, for instance, the above screenshot text is stolen from here, in fact the embedded links simply go to the page the text has been copied from, which is the same place the "REAL ESTATE ANALITYCS" (sic) page has been stolen from as following the embedded links will show. Other content, (e.g. the MORTGAGE NEWS page has been stolen from here, as once again the embedded links show. In fact all of the website content is plagiarised apart from the 'Careers' and 'General Questions' pages which contain the fraud job & details.

iv) They claim on their 'About Us' page: "Real estate agency Vitrea Estate Group is a recognized leader in its field. Being an American company we work according to the highest international standards; we use respective experience, technologies, infrastructure and we consider individual approach to our client's needs to be our highest priority.More than 5 years of experience of Vitrea Estate Group Company will help you stay oriented in the dynamically changing market ", but their domain vitrea-estate.com was only registered with one of these criminal's favourite, (because they don't respond to abuse reports), Russian registrars, ANO Regional Network Information Center dba RU-CENTER on 12-Aug-2009 for the usual criminal's domain minimum period of only one year - a clear indication of a fraud domain.

v) A Google search for "Vitrea Estate Group" shows that this crook has no web presence whatsoever, but does show plenty of evidence of job spamming.

vi) Fake contact details from the fraudulent website: (These crooks are not a registered company in New York, so their details are guaranteed to be bogus)

Contacts
Address:
Vitrea Estate Group
is located in the Midtown area
at 276 LudLow Street,
New York, New York 10019,
United States

Phone numbers:
212-245-7523
212-245-7525 (FAX)

• - For a start, a search of the USPS zipcode checker shows that "276 Ludlow Street, New York" does not exist, (it returns the message: "The address was not found"), but if it did, it would not be "located in the Midtown area" it would be located in the Lower Eastside area. In any event it is a clearly fake address.
• - A Google Maps Street search for the address "276 Ludlow Street, New York" also returns no results - the street numbers go nowhere near high enough.
• - A Google Search for the telephone number "212-245-7523" shows it to be a private number on W 45th St. and undoubtedly nothing to do with these crooks.
• - A Google Search for the Fax. number "212-245-7525" returns no results, (ignoring any occurrence of the crooks fake website, of course).
All clear evidence of fake details.

vii) The Website Job:

Careers

We are always happy to accept goal-oriented coworkers with perspective and ambition to our team. At this point we have a vacancy of Regional Agent on real estate.

This specialist will deal with clients in the region they are responsible for. Among their duties are professional consultations, help with choosing real estate, assistance in searching for interesting objects that are being sold or bought, and also offering services in all the countries where our company is present.

Except for the abovementioned tasks, a new worker will take an active part in creating a database of real estate for our company, and also assist in the process of purchase or selling of some objects.

Worker's salary is calculated in percents from the bargains with objects processed by this worker. In case of selling of any real estate it will be a sum of 0.5 to 1% of total cost, in case of rent contract the worker earns a sum of 100% of a monthly payment for rent. All payments are flat.

This vacancy does not imply a full time employment in the office. You will need to have 3-4 hours of free time daily. If you are interested, we will send you detailed instructions.

Join the leading company and make a bold step towards success!

What is necessary to become a regional agent?

So you decided to become a Regional agent? Now it is time for us to tell you about what you need to do in order to start working with us.

First you need to sign up here. Your resume is considered 1 to 3 days. After you have been approved as a candidate a job-seeker form will be sent to you.

You will need to fill it in accurately and in detail. There will also be a contract in electronic form.
It is important: electronic contract has the same legal power as a paper copy. After you have thoroughly studied the contract, and having no objections or reasons that might prevent our partnership, you need to sign this contract and send it back to our company in a scanned form. Please do not forget to attach a fully completed job-seeker form, this is very important.

In some cases we might need your personal ID in a scanned form. You will be informed of such necessity in advance. After receiving your documents our specialists will send you a confirmation to your mail address you specified in the form. After receiving confirmation you can actually start working.

Note: this kind of activity involves payment processing, that is why you will need to enter your bank information.

Regional Agent

Vacancy Announcement Number: SGG-829
Opening Date: 11/21/2008
Closing Date: Open until filled
Salary: Worker's salary is calculated in percents from the bargains with objects processed by this worker. In case of selling of any real estate it will be a sum of 0.5 to 1% of total cost, in case of rent contract the worker earns a sum of 100% of a monthly payment for rent. All payments are flat.
Duty Location: United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia
Employee Type: Contract

Job description:

This specialist will deal with clients in the region they are responsible for. Among their duties are professional consultations, help with choosing real estate, assistance in searching for interesting objects that are being sold or bought, and also offering services in all the countries where our company is present.

Except for the abovementioned tasks, a new worker will take an active part in creating a database of real estate for our company, and also assist in the process of purchase or selling of some objects.

Candidate requirements:
    * The ability to operate with more than one task effectively, and have an adaptable, flexible, professional attitude
    * Higher education
    * More than 21 years old
    * Experienced PC-user (MS Office, email clients, web surfing)
    * Strong time management skill
    * Prior customer service experience is a good benefit, but not a must
    * Effective dealing with tight deadlines;
    * 3-4 hours of free time
    * Absolutely no criminal offenses or convictions.

What do we offer:
    * Worthy salary
    * Social security and medical insurance
    * Free training

This vacancy does not imply a full time employment in the office. You will need to have 3-4 hours of free time daily. If you are interested, we will send you detailed instructions.

Additional information: Frequently Asked Questions     Apply for this position

The pertinent sentence is "Note: this kind of activity involves payment processing, that is why you will need to enter your bank information" - you do not have to be Hercule Poirot to work out the criminal nature of the proposed 'job' - the "percent rate" will probably be 10% of every successfully processed money transfer, (aka "monthly payment for rent"), despite what I can only assume is a typo of "100% of a monthly payment for rent" in the above fraud job spec. - do not be fooled. The following Frequently Asked Questions spells it out as the crystal clear money mule fraud that it is:

General Questions

How is prepayment processed?

You check your mailbox, if you see that there is information about an incoming prepayment there, you need to check our account within three hours, and if the money has indeed arrived to cash it and send it to our affiliate's details that have also been given in the documentation. The faster you process transactions, the more bonuses you can rely on.

I would like to start, but I would prefer to be sure I get everything your company promises me.

Thank you for your question. All working relationships are regulated in the same manner with the same documents as in usual life, which means you have a contract signed by both parties and all the contact information you need to contact us. You can also discuss all the questions directly with our managers or your immediate leadership.

What documents accompany prepayment, and is there a guarantee that the tax police will not be interested in me?

Al the prepayments that are transferred through your account are accompanied by at least two documents, those being invoice for an actual lot and a must-be purchase contract on real estate. As for tax offices, all the taxes are paid by the company since it is a legal person offering services. In this case you will not need to fill in income statement. The only thing you will need to do is to provide data according to your cumulative income per month.

I am interested in how the working process is regulated.

As you understand working in our company implies irregular working hours. You are also not obliged to report to anyone or be present in the office for some certain period of time. All you need to do is to check for incoming email everyday at 9. In case there is information about the incoming prepayment, you need to finish this process within 3 hours. This is the only and strict condition in our company.

I am interested in possibility of cancellation of contract in case of any force majeure unilaterally.

You can cancel the contract unilaterally at any time, provided there are several conditions for that, such as you do not expect any transactions and you do not have any money on your account that for some reason has not been transferred to the corresponding affiliates. Also you need to inform your direct manager three days in advance, having indicated the reason for cancelling the contract if possible. In some cases the company meets the wishes of its employees, and after solving all the problems we can enter a new contract with you.

Do I need to send scanned copies of my documents along with the contract and the form? And do I need to reenter the contract every year?

Yes, in some cases we will ask you to send us scanned copies of your documents and fill in the bank form. In such cases your personal manager will contact you. As for the contract, it is concluded for one year, and being successful, it is prolonged automatically.

You've no need to worry about re-entering the contract every year - the fake job won't last weeks, never mind a year before the transfers come back as fraudulent and you realise that you have lost a great deal of money, your bank account and assets are frozen and the police would like a word with you...

viii) The Spam: (as seen on Craig's List & many other places including my spamtraps):

Date: 2009-12-09, 12:26PM GMT
Reply to: job-g8dvs-1501879640@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Vitrea Estate Group is a specialized agency on selling real estate. The company was created in 1994. Having taken professionalism and client-oriented operation to be the company’s top priorities, it has quickly gained leading positions on the US market, introducing new services and quality standards.

In the beginning the company was working as a representative of real estate companies. Shortly after that it has changed its focus to meeting the needs of its buyers instead of lobbying interests of traders. Taking into consideration the amount of available offers, variety of requests and wishes of its clients, the company began to study the real estate market in detail. It is an everlasting process, but we can use its current results in our work: we managed to choose a range of countries that meet the main demand group; we studied regions there, its peculiarities, its real estate market and understood what those regions can offer to a potential buyer.

Our company also gained popularity because of taking absolutely new fields to the American market. In particular, Vitrea Estate Group was one of the first companies to begin and use investments into foreign real estate as an alternative instrument to stock and financial markets. As a result the average profit of our clients’ investments is about 85 – 90% of annual interest. The second important advantage is having exclusive rights on selling interesting objects of real estate in the countries of Eastern Europe. In fact, in 2009 our company has concluded several exclusive contracts on real estate in Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Croatia, Ukraine and the CIS countries.

We constantly grow and expand areas of our influence. Presently we are searching for employees to take on a Regional Agent position. These employees will represent the company’s interests in those regions where there are no company’s affiliates yet. Most successful workers will have a chance in the future to head newly opened affiliates.

Requirements:
• Higher education
• Age 21 up
• Experienced PC-user (MS Office, email clients, web surfing)
• Strong time management skill
• 3-4 hours of free time

What we offer:
• Worthy salary
• Social security and medical insurance
• Free training

If you are interested in this position, please take time to send your resume to margaritoglenn70@gmail.com

    * Compensation: 5000 plus bonuses
    * Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
    * Please, no phone calls about this job!
    * Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

PostingID: 1501879640

The above irrefutable evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Vitrea Estate Group website has been set up for criminal fraud purposes. 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 site theft, criminal deception 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.

Vitrea Estate Group Fraudsters - hosting details.

Main Domains, Registrars and Hosts

Domain

vitrea-estate.com

Registrar

ANO Regional Network Information Center dba RU-CENTER (12-Aug-2009)

Host Network

LOGOL-NET (logol.ru)

Host IP

188.93.212.39

Key:
Active
Suspended/Disabled/Deleted
Parked

Domain Whois Data

Domain name:             VITREA-ESTATE.COM
Name Server:             ns1.logol.ru
Name Server:             ns2.logol.ru
Creation Date:           2009.08.12
Expiration Date:         2010.08.12

Status:                  DELEGATED

Registrant ID:           KXKZICA-RU
Registrant Name:         Buxanov Aleksej Nikolaevich
Registrant Organization: Buxanov Aleksej Nikolaevich
Registrant Street1:      ul. Bol'shaya Cherkizovskaya,
Registrant City:         Moskva
Registrant State:        Moskovskaya
Registrant Postal Code: 107061
Registrant Country:      RU

Administrative, Technical Contact
Contact ID:              KXKZICA-RU
Contact Name:            Buxanov Aleksej Nikolaevich
Contact Organization:    Buxanov Aleksej Nikolaevich
Contact Street1:         ul. Bol'shaya Cherkizovskaya,
Contact City:            Moskva
Contact State:           Moskovskaya
Contact Postal Code:     107061
Contact Country:         RU
Contact Phone:           +7 495 745 9307
Contact E-mail:          alek-bukhanov@yandex.ru

Registrar:               ANO Regional Network Information Center dba RU-CENTER

DNS Lookup: vitrea-estate.com A record
Searching for vitrea-estate.com A record at k.root-servers.net [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to c.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for vitrea-estate.com A record at c.gtld-servers.net. [192.26.92.30]: Got referral to ns1.logol.ru. (zone: vitrea-estate.com.)
Searching for vitrea-estate.com A record at ns1.logol.ru. [188.93.212.212]: Reports vitrea-estate.com.
Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
vitrea-estate.com.	A	IN	14400	188.93.212.39
vitrea-estate.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns1.logol.ru.
vitrea-estate.com.	NS	IN	86400	ns2.logol.ru.
ns1.logol.ru.	A	IN	259200	188.93.212.212
ns2.logol.ru.	A	IN	259200	188.93.210.101

Looking up at the 2 vitrea-estate.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns2.logol.ru [188.93.210.101]	188.93.212.39
ns1.logol.ru [188.93.212.212]	188.93.212.39

The host of this criminal fraudster's domain vitrea-estate.com is the Russian host LOGOL-NET (logol.ru) of Leningrad

***Latest News*** Initial entry 3rd. January 2010