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Fraudulent Job offer: elitebusinessjob.com, streamsjobs.com

Other job offer scams:

elitebusinessjob.com, elitebusinessseek.com and vipstrade.com are a fraud

elitejobseek.com, elitebusinessjob.com, elitebusinessseek.com and vipstrade.com are reruns of the streamsjobs.com scam.

The following job offer was sent out as spam by an organized crime group from Eastern Europe. The domain elitebusinessjob.com was only created a few days before the spam was sent (elitebusinessseek.com was both created and advertised two days after its sibling but is otherwise identical). The purpose of this job offer is to trick people into helping move stolen money out of the country for the gang.

The person hired will be used to make stolen money untraceable by forwarding it by Western Union or MoneyGram. If you have been recruited:

  • Do not withdraw or forward any money that arrives in your account or you may be liable for that amount.
  • Contact the bank and alert them to the fraud.
  • Report the fraud to the police.

Spam sample:

From: "Burt Link" <GJCZXQWOHOTJ@yahoo.com>
To: <emailaddress>
Sent: Monday, 16 May, 2005 6:12
Subject: Offer part-time job. Big Salary

Dear Sir/Madam.

Are you really looking for job?

One of the biggest Finance Company of the East Europe glad to offered 
excellent work guaranteeing real money for you!!

No need to invest or buy products in order to work with us.

No money? to start.

About us:

     EliteBusiness Job Company, Latvia  was founded in 1995 by a team 
of 
antiquities experts. By now our company has grown from a small company 
with 
7 employees to an international group with several representative 
offices in 
different countries of the world. Nowadays we are not just selling and 
buying antiques, but are also dealing with organization of 
international 
exhibitions, seminars, tours and many other things. For more 
information:  
http://www.elitebusinessjob.com

Our vacancies:

      Now clients of our company conduct financial operations all over 
the 
world including Australia, New Zeland but due to sufficient perfection 
Banking service we have some difficulties in transfered and the 
organizations of our business, therefore we planning opening branches 
in 
which we require Australia, New Zeland. Now we are looking for 
financial 
assistants that will be responsible to accept payments from our 
clients. At 
this moment we are provide and offered work at home, after opening 
offices 
in Australia and New Zeland  you will have an opportunity for working 
in our 
offices as well.


      Today we are looking for financial assistants that will be 
responsible 
to accept payments from clients through bank transfer, because of 
imperfection of bank system Australians and New Zelands  partners our 
clients have some difficulties with sending of bank transfered and 
checks to 
the East Europe. You can make 10 % commission from every transfer you 
will 
receive through your in relation to our business. The rest needs to be 
transferred to our company's representative by Western Union, all 
Western 
Union fees are paid by us. On average you will be making 2,000 US 
Dollars 
per week.

We are believe that you can get good future and achievements in our 
business. If our offer is interesting to you, please feel free and 
sending a 
mail to our HR office. For more information our crew of Human Resources 
is 
ready to answer all your questions.

P.S : If you are ready to begin work with us do make registration at us 
on a 
site and receive from our site personal your account. After 
registration at 
us on a site during 24 hours we shall send you on e-mail contract and 
at 
once we shall start to work with you. Please go to 
http://www.elitebusinessjob.com   click " REGISTER"


Sincerely yours,
Elite Business Job  Company, Latvia .
contact@elitebusinessjob.com

Domain registration details for "elitebusinessjob.com":

Request: elitebusinessjob.com
connected to whois.opensrs.net [216.40.33.170:43] ... 
Registrant:
 elitebusinessjob.com
 3513 San Jose Ln
 Santa Barbara, CA 93105
 US

 Domain name: ELITEBUSINESSJOB.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Ankeny, Dean  office@vipstrade.com
    3513 San Jose Ln
    Santa Barbara, CA 93105
    US
    8056875875
 Technical Contact:
    Gardella, Lou  sales@domaintechs.com
    4690 Longley Lane
    Suite 34
    Reno, Nevada 89502-7935
    US
    +1.7753313319    Fax: +1.7753313266



 Registration Service Provider:
    American Internet, Inc., support@domaintechs.com
    775-331-3319
    775-331-3266 (fax)
    http://www.domaintechs.com
    For questions about support, 
    DNS/Nameservers and lost 
    login/passwords please 
    send email to: 
    support@domaintechs.com


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 12-May-2005.
 Record expires on 11-May-2006.
 Record created on 11-May-2005.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    DNS1.AMHOSTING.COM   204.10.136.2
    DNS2.AMHOSTING.COM   204.10.143.2


 Domain status: ACTIVE

Domain registration details for "elitebusinessseek.com":

Request: elitebusinessseek.com
connected to whois.opensrs.net [216.40.33.170:43] ... 
Registrant:
 ELS
 322 S. Prairie #50
 Chicago, IL 60605
 US

 Domain name: ELITEBUSINESSSEEK.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    dreznes, laura  office@vipstrade.com
    322 S. Prairie #50
    Chicago, IL 60605
    US
    7086873762    Fax: 000-000-0000

 Technical Contact:
    Manager, Domain  hostmaster@dot5hosting.com
    2800 28th Street
    Ste. 205
    Santa Monica, CA 90405
    US
    +1.8663015699


 Registration Service Provider:
    Dot5Hosting, Inc., hostmaster@dot5hosting.com
    +1.8663015699



 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 13-May-2005.
 Record expires on 13-May-2006.
 Record created on 13-May-2005.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.DOT5NAMESERVERS.COM   66.235.221.11
    NS2.DOT5NAMESERVERS.COM   66.235.196.11


 Domain status: REGISTRAR-LOCK


streamsjobs.com is a fraud
The following job offer was sent out as spam by an organized crime group. The domain streamsjobs.com was only created about two weeks before the spam was sent. The purpose of this job offer is to trick people into helping move stolen money out of the country for the gang.

The person hired will be used to make stolen money untraceable by forwarding it by Western Union or MoneyGram.

From: "Leroy Gibbons" <GUNEASFLVVX@msn.com>
To: <emailaddress1>; <emailaddress1>; <emailaddress1>; <emailaddress1>; 
 <emailaddress1>; <emailaddress1>
Sent: Monday, 11 April, 2005 21:07
Subject: About your resume, part-time.

Are you really looking for job? One of the biggest Finance Company 
of the East Europe glad to offered excellent work guaranteeing real 
money for you!! No need to invest or buy products in order to work 
with us. No money? to start. About us: Streams Jobs Company, Latvia 
was founded in 1995 by a team of antiquities experts. By now our 
company has grown from a small company with 7 employees to an 
international group with several representative offices in different 
countries of the world. Nowadays we are not just selling and buying 
antiques, but are also dealing with organization of international 
exhibitions, seminars, tours and many other things. For more 
information: http://www.streamsjobs.com Our vacancies: Now clients 
of our company conduct financial operations all over the world 
including Australia,UK, New Zeland, USA and other country but due 
to sufficient perfection Banking service we have some difficulties 
in translations and the organizations of our business, therefore we 
planning opening branches in which we require Australia,UK, New Zeland, 
USA and other country . Now we are looking for financial assistants 
that will be responsible to accept payments from our clients. At this 
moment we are provide and offered work at home, after opening offices 
in Australia,UK, New Zeland, USA and other country, you will have an 
opportunity for working in our offices as well. Today we are looking 
for financial assistants that will be responsible to accept payments 
from clients through bank transfer, because of imperfection of bank 
system Australians, Uks, US, and otherer country partners our clients 
have some difficulties with sending of bank transfered and checks to 
the East Europe. You can make 10 % commission from every transfer you 
will receive through your in relation to our business. The rest needs 
to be transferred to our company's representative by Western Union, 
all Western Union fees are paid by us. On average you will be making 
2,000 US Dollars per week. We are believe that you can get good future 
and achievements in our business. If our offer is interesting to you, 
please feel free and sending a mail to our HR office. For more 
information our crew of Human Resources is ready to answer all your 
questions. P.S : If you are ready to begin work with us do make 
registration at us on a site and receive from our site personal your 
account. After registration at us on a site during 24 hours we shall 
send you on e-mail contract and at once we shall start to work with 
you. Please go to www.streamsjobs.com click " REGISTER" Sincerely yours, 
Streams Jobs Company, Ltavia . contact@streamsjobs.com 

Domain registration details for "streamsjobs.com":

Request: streamsjobs.com
from whois.crsnic.net:43 [cached Wed Apr 13 05:23:47 2005 UTC]
from whois.opensrs.net:43 [cached Wed Apr 13 05:23:47 2005 UTC]
Registrant:
 .
 100 Oxford Drive, Apt. 502
 Monroeville, PA 15146
 US

 Domain name: STREAMSJOBS.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Papadopoulos, Harry  webdezign911@hotmail.com
    100 Oxford Drive, Apt. 502
    Monroeville, PA 15146
    US
    412.373.1152
 Technical Contact:
    Administrator, DNS  nic@powersurge.net
    2349 Jamestown Ave
    Independence, IA 50644
    US
    +1.8008675055


 Registration Service Provider:
    http://www.psdomains.com, billing@ticketresponse.com
    1-800-867-5055
    http://www.psdomains.com
    This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
    DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 28-Mar-2005.
 Record expires on 28-Mar-2006.
 Record created on 28-Mar-2005.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    VENUS.ULTRASERVERS.NET   64.71.141.80
    ORACLE.FASTSERVERS.NET   216.218.189.200


 Domain status: ACTIVE