Webcardmaster

Webcardmaster Fraud

Don't Bear Internet Fraud

Webcardmaster is a Russian not-so-subtle variation on the standard money laundering scam based on the Paypal system. It's a pretty transparent fraud when you start to look into it, full of the usual mangled syntax absolutely characteristic of these Russian scams and ludicrous claims that simply fall apart when examined.

This Webcardmaster fraudster bears no relation to any other company of a same or similar name and should not be confused. The above website graphics and the money laundering job below are intended to identify this fraudster alone.

Known Website Domains

webcardmaster.com

Registrar

PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM (I7.RU)

Registration Date

13-feb-2008

IP Address

202.103.49.198

Host

The Dongpu Information Technology Company

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) Webcardmaster has absolutely no internet presence at all, considering their website claim "At the present moment our annual turnover exceeds 50 million US dollars". Actually, in money laundering terms I can actually believe it as it's probably one of the Russian RBN sites.

ii) They claim on their website: "WebCardMaster was created in 2003 by several businessmen and owners of large financial companies in Internet." yet their domain webcardmaster.com was only registered with Public Domain Registry on 13-feb-2008. They've done well to achieve a turnover of "50 million US dollars" in two days...

iii) From the webcardmaster website: "At the beginning of 2007 our company has proposed the world web masters to use new possibilities of money withdrawal that was received from partnership programs, which were using PayPal-system. Thus our company gives every web master the possibility of receiving cash with the help of PayPal Debit Card." Errr - I think every webmaster can do that already, thank you all the same....

iv) From their website FAQ:

- What should I do to participate in your partnership program?
You need to have an account in PayPal system and have a PayPal Debit Card attached to your account.

- If I don’t have a PayPal account can I open it and participate in this partnership program?
Yes, you can open a PayPal account and receive a PayPal Debit Card whereupon you may become a participant of our partnership program. All the information about how to get a PayPal Debit Card is here.

- What should be done for being your participant and earning 750 US dollars?
You need to fill in the registration form.
After your registration processing you will receive a letter with the following instructions.
Then you will need to send us your PayPal Debit Card via USPS Company to the address of our branch office. Surely no-one's dumb enough to actually do that?

- Who will pay me for the resending of my Debit Card?
Our company will prepare a paid-up envelope for the resending of your card.
We are an official partner of the USPS Company. and I'm the King of Siam...

- When will I start earning my first money?
When the envelope with the debit card in it will be received in our branch office you will start earning your first money.

- What sums of money will pass through my account?
On average that will be from 10 to 300$ a day. At the most it will be 3000$
Every day a 40$-sum will be added on your account
After the 30-day lapse (40$ a day) there will be a 1200$ sum on your account. Note the phrase "pass through my account" - like clothes 'pass through' a laundry...

- How will my card be used?
It’ll be used for the withdrawal of the money from PayPal system; all the payments will be made by partnership programs. They are listed here. Except that they aren't, but even if they were, they'd be bogus... For "withdrawal" read "siphoning".
There won’t be any payments from private persons!
All the money will be sent by partnership programs.

- I live in a country where I cannot open a PayPal account or a PayPal Debit Card – what should I do?
You can participate in our referral system and get 5% from an income of engaged in people. Ah, a fall-back to the bog-standard money laundering mule 'job'

- Is it legal? Is the Pope a Buddhist?
Our company leads a legal financial activity, helping web masters from all over the world to receive withdrawals from PayPal system. This activity is not forbidden. We don’t send Casino money to your account. Remember the first rule of spam - "All spammers are liars"

- If I don’t like your program anymore, will I be returned my Card back?
On your first demand we will send you back the Card by USPS. Highly unlikely...

- Will I need to pay taxes for the turnover of the money among the web masters and the partnership programs what will use my PayPal Debit Card?
No. You will not need to pay any taxes. Great - tax evasion as well as money laundering - even Al Capone fell at that hurdle...

v) Same network hosting details as currently, (may change), used by the Waller Truck Co criminal fraudster for the domain watrco.ac.

vi) Spammers, (Spam received in dedicated spamtrap addresses):

Ladies and Gentlemen

A partnership program WebCardMasters offers You a new way of earning the money in Internet.
Working with us You will earn more than 750$ a month applying no special effort.
All the work will be done by our partnership program.
To start working with us, You need to have an account in PayPal and PayPal Debit Card system.
If You don’t have a PayPal account, You may open it and get Paypal Debit Card.
All the detailed information about our offer You may find on the company site www.webcardmaster.com
To start working with our company you need to be registered www.webcardmaster.com/index-5.html
When your information is received and processed, our personnel manager will contact You via telephone or e-mail.
Your future is in your hands.
Your success and wellbeing will be ensured by the WebCardMaster.
Get connected to the millions of successful people all over the world.

vii Location details from the website:

WebCardMaster GMBH
9870 St Vincent Place.
Zurich, Switzherland
Telephone: +1 800 603 6035
E-mail: info@webcardmaster.com

First of all notice they claim to be in Switzerland with a US international code number - they must have a long telephone cord...
Secondly notice that they cannot even spell Switzerland correctly.
Thirdly, if you'd like to see an amazing selection of what appear to be strange 'companies', Google for "9870 St Vincent Place" or "+1 800 603 6035"
It seems to be a very popular address and telephone number. The reason for that is because they are among the 'default' addresses and telephone numbers used by Template Monster in its sample website templates and this criminal has not bothered to change them... They are certainly not genuine contact details for this criminal.

DNS Data:
webcardmaster.com
Looking up at the 2 webcardmaster.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.webcardmaster.com [200.72.139.67]	202.103.49.198
ns2.webcardmaster.com [200.42.72.233]	Timeout (Fake nameserver - never resolves)

They've set up their own DNS as virtually all of these criminals do, in this case using their main domain on the usual unresponsive ENTEL CHILE S.A. IP 200.72.139.67 as previously used for the ICG Technology and Cronos Investment frauds and currently used for the Waller Truck Co fraud. The website IP (202.103.49.198) is the The Dongpu Information Technology Company, in ShiYan city Hubei Province IP also currently used by the Waller Truck Co fraudster to host the Nic.ac domain watrco.ac also via a nameserver, (ns1.nsters.com), on 200.72.139.67 which betrays the lineage of this criminal.

Fraud Log:
Initial set-up 15th. Feb 2008