World Finance Group

World Finance Group Fraud

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World Finance Group homepage screenshot (stolen site):

This fraud should not be confused with any other company of the same or similar name - the above website screenshot and the following fraud evidence define and refer to this FAKE company alone and no other.

World Finance Group is just another fake financial site used as a vehicle for money laundering fraud and phishing for personal details as part of the recruitment process. The only reason it looks so glossy and professional is because the website content has been stolen in its entirety from the website of the genuine Global Finance Group. Some other known aliases of this particular criminal fraudster, (spamvertising exactly the same illegal money mule 'job'), are First Rate Finance, Paramount Finance and Finance Corp International Inc. The website fraud domain w-f-g.org was only registered on 04-Aug-2008 and the payload of the fraud site is a clear money laundering mule job under the 'Careers' tab. The company details and the company location are all bogus as evidenced below.

Evidence of Criminal Fraud:

i) As can be seen from the above home page screenshot: "Copyright © 1998-2008". However, the fraudster's domain w-f-g.org was only registered with PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM on 04-Aug-2008. Clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

ii) The fake website content has quite clearly been stolen in its entirety from the genuine Global Finance Group and modified to suit the criminal's purposes, i.e. by including a 'Careers' menu option which the genuine site does not have. Clear evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation.

iii) As is usual for these criminals, they have no Google internet presence at all, (do not confuse with other companies of the same name), despite their claim on their About Us page: "Our network of local and international finance experts are experienced and highly regarded.", but no doubt there will shortly be many other fraud site listings as they spread their spam.

iv) Also on their About Us page: "Global Finance Group is unique because we have taken all the benefits and programs that have been the exclusive domain of the large Fortune 500 companies and have packaged them for the mid-market.". They've missed quite a few of the references to the genuine Global Finance Group company that they've stolen the site from, in fact the 'Terms and Conditions' page has lots of them - clear evidence of fraud.

v) The website carries the following clear money mule criminal solicitation via the 'Careers' tab:

Escrow Agent

Job Basis
As the basis of our service is to provide escrow deals on the Internet we need escrow agents all over the world. Attracting clients from different corners of the world we should have our agents everywhere so that to be able to provide instant escrow solutions (in-state bank transfers take no more than a few hours). We engage new technologies to deal with the e-document exchange, which make the process reliable and safe. Our service only deals with the paperwork, leaving the financial part (accepting funds on your personal bank accounts from the buyers, and routing them to the sellers according to our instructions afterwards) for you. We can't shoulder the financial responsibility because in today's world of extremely fast solutions it is time that is of extreme importance to our clients. Having an escrow agent in every country we can quickly transfer funds inside the country without wasting time on the international bank transfers, and continue our rapid growth rather than overwhelming our own bank account with inbound and outbound transactions leading to severe hold times and probably service interruption.

Career and Benefits
If you want to build up an escrow agent career with us contact us on this page. Your main task will be accepting money transactions on your personal bank accounts and routing them to the next link of the escrow process, according to our instructions. You will benefit from the commissions, which are 5-7% of every transaction and depend on the quantity of completed transactions and the speed of your work + you will be paid based salary 3000 USD per month. For your convenience there will be no paychecks, your commission will remain in your account, which is activated after your registration, after every successfully completed transaction. The cost of money transfer is not included in your commission, meaning you will deduct it from the amount to be sent, not from your commission. And you receive 5-7% of the amount of the transaction. Normally the amounts that we process vary from 2,000 USD to 10,000 USD, but can go higher on special occasions.
Money transfer methods to our clients:

• Western Union;
• Money Gram;
• Wire transfer to your banking account.

Taxation
According to US laws you are not required to pay taxes on bank transactions. In addition to that, generally you will not have to do your work under your own name, but the name of your company. If you insist we can prepare and file all tax documents with the IRS at the end of fiscal year. If you interested in partnership please feel free to contact us here. After receiving your request we process and answer as soon as possible.

It's exactly the same illegal job that appears on all of this criminal's different aliases mentioned above.

vi) You do not get a much clearer definition of the illegal part time money mule function "accepting money transactions on your personal bank accounts" and transferring them on via Moneygram or Western Union less a percentage commission - that on its own defines the company without doubt as criminal and bogus and is clear evidence of criminal fraud.

vii) 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.

viii) Fake 'Contact Us' Details from their website:

The only contact with the company is via a webform, which in itself is suspicious. However, there is the following information and registered office address from the page footer:

Copyright © 1998-2008. World Finance Group. All rights reserved. ABN: 35 081 847 636. Tel/Fax: +61-28-0887-223
Registered Office Address: 321 Maroubra Road, Maroubra, NSW 2035, registered in Australia

• - The address 321 Maroubra Road, Maroubra, NSW 2035 Googles as a residential apartment block - hardly the location of a "World Finance Group" - clear evidence of criminal fraud.

• - A webcheck and a Dun & Bradstreet (Australia) check on the above ABN number 35 081 847 636 shows that the number is registered to a company called simply 'World Group', (not World Finance Group), registered in 1998 and listed at a totally different registered office address, 102 GAYNEFORD ST, MOUNT GRAVATT QLD 4122, AU, however that address is incorrect for the postcode, the only correct street in that locality is 102 GAYNESFORD ST which Googles as "Australia & The World Supermarket" a halal grocery and spice store. The whole listing appears to be fake.

The Spam

World Finance Group.
321 Maroubra Road, Maroubra,
NSW 2035, Australia.

Hello
my name is Mark Atkinson and I am World Finance Group Staff manager. We
have found and reviewed your resume at workthing.com and decided to offer
this job to you.

Here is the information about Escrow Agent position:

Job Basis
As the basis of our service is to provide escrow deals on the Internet we
need escrow agents all over the world. Attracting clients from different
corners of the world we should have our agents everywhere so that to be
able to provide instant escrow solutions (in-state bank transfers take no
more than a few hours). We engage new technologies to deal with the
e-document exchange, which make the process reliable and safe. Our service
only deals with the paperwork, leaving the financial part (accepting funds
on your personal bank accounts from the buyers, and routing them to the
sellers according to our instructions afterwards) for you. We can't
shoulder the financial responsibility because in today's world of
extremely fast solutions it is time that is of extreme importance to our
clients. Having an escrow agent in every country we can quickly transfer
funds inside the country without wasting time on the international bank
transfers, and continue our rapid growth rather than overwhelming our own
bank account with inbound and outbound transactions leading to severe hold
times and probably service interruption.

Career and Benefits
Your main task will be accepting money transactions on your personal bank
accounts and routing them to the next link of the escrow process,
according to our instructions. You will benefit from the commissions,
which are 5-7% of every transaction and depend on the quantity of
completed transactions and the speed of your work + you will be paid basic
salary 1500 GBP per month. For your convenience there will be no
paychecks, your commission will remain in your account, which is activated
after your registration, after every successfully completed transaction.
The cost of money transfer is not included in your commission, meaning you
will deduct it from the amount to be sent, not from your commission. And
you receive 5-7% of the amount of the transaction. Normally the amounts
that we process vary from 2,000GBP to 10,000GBP, but can go higher on
special occasions.

Money transfer methods:
   * Western Union;
   * Money Gram;
   * Wire transfer;

IF YOU ARE READY TO PROCEED, PLEASE FILL THIS SIMPLE FORM AND SEND IT BACK
TO staffmanager@w-f-g.org

Full name:
Address:
City:
State:
Post code:
Phone #:
Cell #:
Country:
E-mail:
Current Employer (if any):
Job Position: [Escrow Agent]

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need more information.
--
Sincerely yours,
Mark Atkinson,
World Finance Group Pty. Ltd.
staffmanager@w-f-g.org,
Visit us at http://w-f-g.org/

The above evidence clearly demonstrates beyond any doubt that the World Finance Group website has been set up very recently by money laundering criminals 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 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

world-finance-group.com (Suspended)
w-f-g.org (Suspended)

Registrar

PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM (NICS.NAME) - 13-jul-2008
PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM 04-Aug-2008

Network Data

(Valid for domain world-finance-group.com)

How I am searching:

Searching for world-finance-group.com A record at h.root-servers.net [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to j.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.)
Searching for world-finance-group.com A record at j.gtld-servers.net. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to ns1.world-finance-group.com. (zone: world-finance-group.com.)
Searching for world-finance-group.com A record at ns1.world-finance-group.com. [120.50.46.38]: Reports world-finance-group.com. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
world-finance-group.com.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.38
world-finance-group.com.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.globoxhost.net.
world-finance-group.com.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.globoxhost.net.
ns1.globoxhost.net.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.38
ns2.globoxhost.net.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.83

Looking up at the 2 world-finance-group.com. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.world-finance-group.com [120.50.46.38]	120.50.46.38
ns2.world-finance-group.com [120.50.46.82]	[Error: Port Unreachable]

The criminal's host is listed as IDCIBP-SG (QALA Network) - 120.50.46.38 - This is the same host as used by the First Rate Finance fraudster

Fraud Log

21st. July 2008
Webpage created

***Latest News*** 28th. July 2008
Site contact reports domain world-finance-group.com has been suspended. Please let me know of any active websites.

***Latest News*** 06th. August 2008
New domain notified by site contact - w-f-g.org registered with PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM and hosted on the above IDCIBP-SG (QALA) Network.
How I am searching:

Searching for w-f-g.org A record at f.root-servers.net [192.5.5.241]: Got referral to TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. (zone: org.)
Searching for w-f-g.org A record at TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. [204.74.113.1]: Got referral to ns2.w-f-g.org. (zone: w-f-g.org.)
Searching for w-f-g.org A record at ns2.w-f-g.org. [120.50.46.82]: Timed out. Trying again.
Searching for w-f-g.org A record at ns1.w-f-g.org. [120.50.46.38]: Reports w-f-g.org. Response:

Domain	Type	Class	TTL	Answer
w-f-g.org.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.38
w-f-g.org.	NS	IN	14400	ns1.globoxhost.net.
w-f-g.org.	NS	IN	14400	ns2.globoxhost.net.
ns1.globoxhost.net.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.38
ns2.globoxhost.net.	A	IN	14400	120.50.46.83

Looking up at the 2 w-f-g.org. parent servers:

Server	Response
ns1.w-f-g.org [120.50.46.38]	120.50.46.38
ns2.w-f-g.org [120.50.46.82]	Timeout

The criminal's host is listed as IDCIBP-SG (QALA Network) - 120.50.46.38 - This is the same host as used by the First Rate Finance fraudster

***Latest News*** 13th. August 2008
Site contact reports domain w-f-g.org has been suspended. Please notify me of any active websites.