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Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) scam screenshot (19-Jun-2009)
Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) scam screenshot (19-Jun-2009)

Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) fraud is is just the latest of the numerous Russian scam websites that has been set up to form a front for a money laundering fraud job spam campaign. Its function is to con you into believing that they are a legitimate company when the evidence clearly demonstrates that they are crooks. Their website appears to be based on content stolen from the genuine Fortis Escrow, (part of Fortis Bank), and modified just enough to prevent Google from picking up on text searches. Their domain westpac-escrow.com was only registered very recently with ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU for the usual criminals domain one year minimum period. Their management 'team' are in fact past or present Fortis members of staff. Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) is not a registered company at their supposed US location. Would a supposed US Company have a Russian domain registrar and a Russian host as this fake company does? I think not. This fraud is hosted on the same NETCLUB-NET (Moscow NetClub) IP (212.158.167.16) as the IDS Solutions Inc. fraud and their previous Minara Company fraud, in fact this site is a direct replacement for the Minara Company fraud site with identical content, (including an identical fraud 'job'), identical location details and an identical template - only the fake name has changed.
This fraudster should not be confused with any legitimate company of the same or similar name - the above website graphics and the included money laundering job clearly identify the fake website and these fraudsters.

Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) : Evidence of Criminal Fraud

i) Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) make this claim on their website 'team' page: "Howard Weiler has been taking responsibility of MD in Westpac Escrow for 8 years", but the criminal's domain westpac-escrow.com was only registered with ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU - 12-Jun-2009. A clear indication of fraud

ii) Although they claim to be based in North Wales, Pennsylvania, a webcheck shows that neither Westpac Company nor Westpac Escrow are registered in the Pennsylvania state business register, irrefutable evidence of a fake company. Check for yourself.

iii) Their clearly fake 'Management Team' all Google as employees or ex-employees of Fortis, where their site content is stolen from. For instance, the supposed 'Howard Weiler' ('Howard Anderson' in the Minara scam), is in fact the Managing Director of Fortis Escrow, Lout Lapidaire and their supposed Eke Verbeke is also Eke Verbeke at Fortis.

iv) A Google search shows absolutely no internet presence at all for this particular Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) apart from their own fake website, of course, (not to be confused with any other company of the same name.

v) Location Details (copied from their website)

Financial center:
106 Usher Lane, North Wales, PA, 19454
Contact phone number: (215) 764-6077
fax: (408) 786-3609

E-mail adress::

info@westpac-escrow.com

Company's Director :
Mr. Howard Weiler

• - A Google search for the address "106 Usher Lane, North Wales, PA" returns no third party evidence of these criminals at that address, just their own fake website and their Minara fraud.
• - There are no businesses listed at that address by Google Maps.
• - A Google search for the telephone number (215) 764-6077 returns no third party evidence of it being their number, just their own fake website and it locates to Philadelphia rather than North Wales.
• - The Fax. number (408) 786-3609 locates to San Jose, CA they must have a big office - clear evidence of fraud.
• - A Google search for the Fax. number (408) 786-3609 returns no third party evidence of it being their number, just their own fake website & fraud site listings..
• - They are not a registered company at that address or even in Pennsylvania as evidenced above.
• - These are exactly the same details as for their Minara Company scam - clear evidence of fraud.
It is a clearly fake set of contact details.

vi) The Website 'Regional Consultant' vacancy:

       

        The specified information breaks down on general responsibilities and work policies pertinent to the 'Regional Consultant' vacancy:

        Requirements:

        * An equipped home office.
        * Astute and sedate behavior shown in the work environment.
        * Mature enough (21 years old).
        * Specialization or training experience doesn't count as a qualifier.

        Responsibilities:

        * Handling and examination in the procedures of client's enquiry.
        * Exploration of the escrow field. Encompasses handling of financial obligations that derived from vendor's requests, cross border trading actions or international projects in overall.
        * Acquaintance with associates. An opportunity to get familiar with the market, as well as accustom yourself to general regulations, policies and work flow of the organizational structures.

        Benefits:

        * Annual salary of $75,000.00 plus instant payout of the collected finder's fee (commission of 8%).
        * Work schedule management, IT communication aspects and online tutelage courses are guaranteed to serve as practical guides to your secured position.
        * *No start-up fees nor preliminary expenses. You're free to embark on the opportunity right away!

        Should you feel inclined to try out this offering, our representatives are willing to handle your enquiry with due diligence and understanding. Don't hesitate to start your career right away!
It's the same 'job' as their Minara alias. The pertinent sentence is "Annual salary of $75,000.00 plus instant payout of the collected finder's fee (commission of 8%)." . Don't be fooled, there is no 'annual salary of $75,000.00' that's just the bait to sucker you in - you won't last more than a week or two as the 'online tutelage courses' consists of accepting stolen funds into your personal bank account and transferring a balance back to these crooks. It will lose you a lot of money, get your account closed and your assets frozen and leave you facing a fraud enquiry - don't be tempted.
vii) The Spam:
From: westpac.inc.hr@gmail.com
Subject: Application process @ Westpac Escrow Inc.
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009

Hi,
You have previously conveyed your information/CV and applied for a job position. Per your request, I'm going to briefly restate the main points that the following position does entail at Westpac Escrow company (part of "Westpac" Bank."Westpac Escrow" company specializes in escrow arrangements that ultimately secure any financial obligation incurred whether from acquisition actions, cross border trading transactions or international construction projects. For more information, please visit our web-site http://www.westpac-escrow.com).
Today we would like to offer you a position of our Regional Escrow Assistant. We will be happy to offer you a position of a full-time Regional Escrow Manager at one of our newly opened US offices, once you perform well at a part-time position.
Your major responsibilities on a part-time position:
- to Maintain home office, with a phone number and internet connection
- to deal with the payments form our American customers: these can be companies or private individuals. You will be a middleman between our customers based in the US and Europe/Asia. Your mission will be to speed-up process of payment delivery, that can not be managed automatically. So that to help us get the payments to the escrow party (seller) efficiently, deal with each of the customer orders in shortest possible dates, retain existing customers and improve companys total profit.
Benefits:
1) Annual salary of $75,000.00 plus instant payout of the collected finders fee (commission of 8%)
2) No start-up FEES required
3) No escrow/financial experience or education required. All training information and instructions will be provided.
Since this is a part-time job position – you will get approximately 2 escrow during the approbation period. Once you get some experience, you will probably need less than 1,5 hours to finish the whole task.
The approbation period lasts for 2 weeks, which allows both of us make sure we are comfortable to deal with each other. We will sign up a pre-contract agreement with you, which will be valid through the approbation period only. Once the approbation period has gone through successfully, we will be happy to sign up a long-term working agreement for part-time employment on a regular basis with you.
If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to e-mail us.
We are looking forward to hearing from you ASAP.

Sincerely, Mr. Christopher Smith
Westpac Escrow Inc.
HR manager
106 Usher Lane, North Wales, PA, 19454
tel: +1 (215) 764-6077
fax: +1 (408) 786-3609
www.westpac-escrow.com
Just more confirmation of the illegal Money Mule position. There will be nothing beyond the  "approbation period" (sic) as by then the deposited money will have come back as stolen, been recovered and not only will you be out a large amount of money but you will also be facing a fraud investigation.
The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) website has been set up by money laundering criminal fraudsters purely for the purpose of criminal activity. 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 fraud - 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.
Westpac Company (Westpac Escrow) Fraudsters - current hosting details

Domains, Registrars and Hosts 
Domain

westpac-escrow.com
 Registrar

ANO REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER DBA RU - 12-Jun-2009

 Host Network

NETCLUB-NET (Moscow NetClub)

 Host IP

212.158.167.16

Active
Suspended or Inactive

Please notify me of any other current domains used by this criminal.
DNS Lookup: westpac-escrow.com A record
Searching for westpac-escrow.com A record at i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.)
Searching for westpac-escrow.com A record at B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.33.14.30]: Got referral to ns1.bernet.ru. (zone: westpac-escrow.com.)
Searching for westpac-escrow.com A record at ns1.bernet.ru. [212.158.160.50]: Reports westpac-escrow.com.
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
westpac-escrow.com. A IN 14400 212.158.167.16
westpac-escrow.com. NS IN 14400 ns2.bernet.ru.
westpac-escrow.com. NS IN 14400 ns1.bernet.ru.
ns1.bernet.ru. A IN 14400 212.158.160.50
ns2.bernet.ru. A IN 14400 212.158.167.16

Looking up at the 2 westpac-escrow.com. parent servers:

Server Response
ns2.bernet.ru [212.158.167.16] 212.158.167.16
ns1.bernet.ru [212.158.160.50] 212.158.167.16
The site host IP 94.103.80.160 is listed as belonging to NETCLUB-NET (Moscow NetClub) on IP address 212.158.167.16. These are the same hosting details as for their Minara Company scam.
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