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dunk

@aracnet.com

 reply to MGD
Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto

here is another one for ya all~

Not really a Hungarian Co.

209.104.6.243

ARIN Details
balatondesign.com

209.104.6.243
Record Type: IP Address

Login, Inc. CUSTNET3 (NET-209-104-0-0-1)
209.104.0.0 - 209.104.31.255
Login, Inc. LOGIN-M3 (NET-209-104-0-0-2)
209.104.0.0 - 209.104.7.255
Registration Service Provided By: Active-Domain LLC
Contact: »www.active-domain.com

Domain Name: balatondesign.COM
Expiry Date: 26-Jan-2010
Creation Date: 26-Jan-2009

Name servers:
ns1.webproservers.net
ns2.webproservers.net

Registrant Name: GERSHOM MAHON
Registrant Company: balatondesign.com
Registrant Email Address: gershom_mahon@yahoo.com
Registrant Address: 866 E 93RD. STREET
Registrant City: BROOKLYN
Registrant State/Region/Province: NY
Registrant Postal Code: 11236
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Tel No: +1.5125978639
Registrant Fax No:

Admin Name: GERSHOM MAHON
Admin Company: balatondesign.com
Admin Email Address: gershom_mahon@yahoo.com
Admin Address: 866 E 93RD. STREET
Admin City: BROOKLYN
Admin State/Region/Province: NY
Admin Postal Code: 11236
Admin Country: US
Admin Tel No: +1.5125978639
Admin Fax No:

Tech Name: GERSHOM MAHON
Tech Company: balatondesign.com
Tech Email Address: gershom_mahon@yahoo.com
Tech Address: 866 E 93RD. STREET
Tech City: BROOKLYN
Tech State/Region/Province: NY
Tech Postal Code: 11236
Tech Country: US
Tech Tel No: +1.5125978639
Tech Fax No:
Current Registrar: ACTIVE REGISTRAR, INC.
IP Address: 209.104.6.243 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Data as of: 23-Apr-2008

Re: Balaton Design, Inc from Craigslist
Thank you for your reply on our Craigslist's posting.
Our company is a multiple-discipline Internet company (please visit
www.balatondesign.com). One of our direction is a creating
web-products, which are intended for many clients. Our company carries
on this business for 7 years. Balaton Design, Inc is one
of the leaders in our country of the companies which do these
services.
In Present days Internet influences all the areas of human activity.
That's why our company develops rapidly every year. We aren't the
waiting for the fortune company. We do the success ourselves. Our
marketing department elaborated a plan, which will help us to get
international market and the USA first of all.
We need some managers who will produce our company in the USA. It is a
very profitable project not only for our company but for our
representatives too. Future trends of this business are unlimited. We
guarantee a stable growth of your income and professional skills. From
you we need only some efforts in the first stage to develop our
business. Later you will not spend much time to keep the project.
Attention: No skills and experience in programming and web design are
required from you. This is not a technical position.
If you've got a burning desire to succeed and are interested in
maximizing your personal and professional growth, please kindly get
back to us via our email address (janos_molnar@balatondesign.com). I
will get back to you with every little detail of how our cooperation
will develop. I will forward you our Instructions.

Please reply to this email: janos_molnar@balatondesign.com

Thank you very much.
Respectfully,
Janos Molnar,
Balaton Design, Inc
Address: Balatonfoldvar, Somogyi Bela u. 1.
Zip Code: 8623
Country: Hungary
Tel: +36(84) 340-635
Tel/Fax for US: (901) 284-2261
www.balatondesign.com

MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL

said by dunk :

here is another one for ya all~
......
..
Janos Molnar,
Balaton Design, Inc
Address: Balatonfoldvar, Somogyi Bela u. 1.
Zip Code: 8623
Country: Hungary
Tel: +36(84) 340-635
Tel/Fax for US: (901) 284-2261
www.balatondesign.com
Outstanding catch !! and absolute confirmation that it is a new recruiting C&C belonging to this organized crime syndicate. That recent domain is fraudulently registered using the identity of a former applicant and cyber-mule: »Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto

Was that how you connected it ?

Any chance you have a link to the Craigslist add, or a copy of the posted text?. They adds are difficult to locate because they are generic management positions and never make reference to the name of the company until after you respond. Having the text of the Craigslist posting will enable key word searches to look for others.

The entire website:

------------------------------
Janos Molnar, = FRAUD
Balaton Design, Inc = FRAUD
Address: Balatonfoldvar, Somogyi Bela u. 1. = FRAUD
Zip Code: 8623
Country: Hungary
Tel: +36(84) 340-635
Tel/Fax for US: (901) 284-2261
www.balatondesign.com = FRAUD
------------------------------

is just one big flash design, and the text is an image file. Nothing for Google to archive but the name and domain.

Again, Kudos for posting this.

MGD

MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL

reply to dunk
It appears that balatondesign.com has been removed, maybe temporarily:

Snapped 2009-02-18 22:39:09

»balatondesign.com


An archived copy of the original main page:




and Company Profile:



.
They went to great lengths to make sure that Google could not archive anything but the domain name:

The effect of using an all flash and /or images with no text can be seen from the Google "all blank" cache of balatondesign.com:



Compare The BALATON DESIGN INC aka balatondesign.COM recruiting response:

said by dunk :

here is another one for ya all~
.....
..
.

Re: Balaton Design, Inc from Craigslist

Thank you for your reply on our Craigslist's posting.

Our company is a multiple-discipline Internet company (please visit (www.balatondesign.com). One of our direction is a creating web-products, which are intended for many clients. Our company carries on this business for 7 years. Balaton Design, Inc is one of the leaders in our country of the companies which do these services. In Present days Internet influences all the areas of human activity.That's why our company develops rapidly every year. We aren't the waiting for the fortune company. We do the success ourselves. Our marketing department elaborated a plan, which will help us to get international market and the USA first of all. We need some managers who will produce our company in the USA. It is a very profitable project not only for our company but for our representatives too. Future trends of this business are unlimited. We guarantee a stable growth of your income and professional skills. From you we need only some efforts in the first stage to develop our
business. Later you will not spend much time to keep the project.

Attention: No skills and experience in programming and web design are required from you. This is not a technical position. If you've got a burning desire to succeed and are interested in maximizing your personal and professional growth, please kindly get back to us via our email address (janos_molnar@balatondesign.com). I will get back to you with every little detail of how our cooperation will develop. I will forward you our Instructions.

Please reply to this email: janos_molnar@balatondesign.com

Thank you very much.
Respectfully,
Janos Molnar,
Balaton Design, Inc
Address: Balatonfoldvar, Somogyi Bela u. 1.
Zip Code: 8623
Country: Hungary
Tel: +36(84) 340-635
Tel/Fax for US: (901) 284-2261
www.balatondesign.com

.
Compared to the 12/09/2008 posting on the SCAM.COM thread of the recruiting response from ALBENA DESIGN INC. aka ALBENADESIGN.COM

Regarding Albena Design, this is the email I received after responding to their posting on Craigslist:
.

Our company is a multiple-discipline Internet company (please visit www.albenadiz.com). One of our direction is a creating web-products, which are intended for many clients. Our company carries on this business for 7 years. Albena Design, Inc is one of the leaders in our country of the companies which do these services. In Present days Internet influences all the areas of human activity. That's why our company develops rapidly every year. We aren't the waiting for the fortune company. We do the success ourselves. Our marketing department elaborated a plan, which will help us to get international market and the USA first of all. We need some managers who will produce our company in the USA. It is a very profitable project not only for our company but for our representatives too. Future trends of this business are unlimited. We guarantee a stable growth of your income and professional skills. From you we need only some efforts in the first stage to develop our business. Later you will not spend much time to keep the project.

Attention: No skills and experience in programming and web design are required from you. This is not a technical position. If you've got a burning desire to succeed and are interested in maximizing your personal and professional growth, please kindly get back to us via our email address (marko_minkov@albenadiz.com). I will get back to you with every little detail of how our cooperation will develop. I will forward you our Instructions.

Please reply to this email: marko_minkov@albenadiz.com

Thank you very much.
Respectfully,
Marko Minkov,
Albena Design, Inc.
Address: 32 Nikola Petkov Street
Zip Code: 5400
City: Sevlievo
Country: Bulgaria
Tel: +359 675 300 36
Tel/Fax for US: (801) 650-9447
www.albenadiz.com

.

Note that many of the fictitious names that they use are very similar, if not identical, to names used by legitimate entities in various countries. Avoid any confucion with those entities. The references in this thread are to the exact ones specified.

MGD

MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL

reply to MGD
Found the previous version of the all flash format World Creative Studio Inc. aka worldcreativestudio.com C&C.



Circa February 2009 Balaton Design, Inc aka balatondesign.com



Faking their location as Hungary versus the current Poland, neiher of which is the location of the crime syndicate.



The previous write up also connects this to Albena Designs and to the US and UK strawberry fraud program, also to the Orange, and Black template group, et all. »Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto

MGD

MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL


3 edits
reply to MGD
Cyber_Mule recruiting alert !!

FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM = Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com = FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM

Continuing in the Russian Organized Crime syndicate's theme of the 100% Flash and text as an image fraud recruiting website:»www.hongkongsolutions.com




=========================
Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com
RM 1315 Ctr 45 Chong
Yip St Kwub Tong Kl
Hong Kong,

Telephone +1-(206)-203-1947
=========================

Our company is a multiple-discipline Internet company (please visit www.hongkongsolutions.com). One of our direction is a creating web-products (iPhone themes,PocketPC themes, Mobile themes, wallpapers, games.), which are intended for many clients. Our company carries on this business for 8 years.

HK Solutions, Inc is one of the leaders in our country of the companies which do these services. In Present days Internet influences all the areas of human activity. That's why our company develops rapidly every year. We aren't the waiting for the fortune company. We do the success ourselves. Our marketing department elaborated a plan, which will help us to get international market and the USA first of all.

We need some managers who will produce our company in the USA. It is a very profitable project not only for our company but for our representatives too. Future trends of this business are unlimited. We guarantee a stable growth of your income and professional skills. From you we need only some efforts in the first stage to develop our business. Later you will not spend much time to keep the project.

Attention: No skills and experience in programming and web design are required from you. This is not a technical position. If you've got a burning desire to succeed and are interested in maximizing your personal and professional growth, please kindly get back to us via our email address

Harry Wong

harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com
NOTE: careerbuilder.com, Monster.com, et all, by default allow cyber criminals to obtain employer accounts. (All you need is a credit card, anyone's will do) An Employer account gives criminals access to entire databases of job seeker resumes. This enables career criminals and organized crime syndicates to target job hunters, and solicit them.

DO NOT ASSUME, that because an email from a prospective employer comes via Careerbuilder, or monster's system, that it in any way confirms legitimacy. Careerbuilder's and Montser's systems are wide open for anyone to join as an employer. No distinction is made between criminals, scammers, and legitimate employers. That burden is left to the prospective employee to do.

From Harry Wong harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com

In this email I will explain you about this job offer.

Also I forward you our Instructions, FAQ and Agreement. Use Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view the above files. If you do not have this
software on your computer, please go to
>http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html and download the
program for free.

Our company enters the american market now because almost all online
business are located in the USA. So we have to search managers in the
USA to create our subsidiaries.

Our Marketing Department has developed a perfect idea to boost sales.
The idea is to have more subsidiaries that would resell our items
(iPhone themes,PocketPC themes, Mobile themes, wallpapers, games etc).
The more subsidiaries we have the more things we sell and our profit
grows accordingly.

Your mission in the project is to create business tools (registering a
business, setting up business and merchant bank accounts) and it is
for these services that you will be paid.

Hong Kong Solutions, Inc creates a web-site (online store or
subsidiary another words) which will sell our products. The work of
this web site is impossible without a company and that's why your
first step will be the opening of company (the company may be
registered as a Corporation, LLC, Sole Proprietorship or other
business entity).

If you already have a company, it's great and will make the start up
yet faster. Next you open bank business and merchant account and
Gateway on Authorize.net.

Your commission will be 10 percent from all the sales (you'll earn
about 4000-5000$ a month). Also all bank and merchant fees will be
paid by our company. You will get your 10 percent in any case not
depending what fees we will have. Your income will increase as the
business progresses.

About the taxes:
The taxes in this kind of business we will need to pay only in
starting the 2nd year.
US taxes are not conventional; is one makes more than a certain amount
of $ in a year through a corporation, they need to pay taxes every
three months. This is called Estimated Quarterly Taxes.
In our situation, these aren't paid the first year, only starting the
2nd year. All taxes will be go through your company but you will take
the necessary funds from our part when it's time to pay for taxes. So
our company will pay all taxes not you.
Since what we sell isn't tangible (can't be touched), we don't file
Sales tax. Only thing we pay is income tax, to the federal
governement.

If you are interested please send me the signed agreement (I sent you
it. did you get it?) or via email or via fax (206)339-1058.

If you have any questions else please ask me.

Best regards,
Harry Wong,
Hong Kong Solutions, Inc
>http://www.hongkongsolutions.com/
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour···oq=&aqi=
A previous and still operating fraud job recruiting site of this clone is:

World Creative Studio Inc. aka worldcreativestudio.com

Prior postings

»worldcreativestudio.com



=========================
worldcreativestudio.com

World Creative Studio Inc.
Ul Chmielna 26 #5
Warsaw, 00020
Poland

Telephone: +1 954-208-7279
=========================

And before that, we had another clone:

Balaton Design, Inc. aka balatondesign.com



=========================
Balaton Design, Inc., balatondesign.com
Somogyi Bela u. 1.,
8623, Balatonfildvar,
Hungary,

Telephone +1 801-926-8016
=========================

Prior postings

MGD

FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM = Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com = FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM
FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM = Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com = FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM
FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM = Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com = FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM

MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL

FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM = Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com = FRAUD ALERT JOB SCAM

There are two known names that they are using to communicate with potential cyber-mules:

Donald Chan
donaldchan@hongkongsolutions.com

Harry Wong
harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com

Hosting information for hongkongsolutions.com:

Server Type: Apache
IP Address: 72.167.232.158
Godaddy.com Inc
Response Code:200
Domain Status:Registered And Active Website

IP Information for 72.167.232.158
IP Location: United States Scottsdale Godaddy.com Inc
Resolve Host: p3nlh078.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
IP Address: 72.167.232.158
Reverse IP: 3,538 other sites hosted on this server.
Blacklist Status: Clear


OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID: GODAD
Address: 14455 N Hayden Road
Address: Suite 226
City: Scottsdale
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country: US

NetRange: 72.167.0.0 - 72.167.255.255
CIDR: 72.167.0.0/16
OriginAS: AS26496
NetName: GO-DADDY-SOFTWARE-INC
NetHandle: NET-72-167-0-0-1
Parent: NET-72-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2007-07-05
Updated: 2008-01-18


The domain hongkongsolutions.com has a fraudulent registration:


ICANN Registrar:GODADDY.COM, INC.
Created:2009-05-23
Expires:2010-05-23

Registrant:
Gary Herrit garyherrit@yahoo.com
208 E. Metzger Ave.
Butler, Para 16001
United States

Domain Name: HONGKONGSOLUTIONS.COM
Created on: 23-May-09
Expires on: 23-May-10
Last Updated on: 23-May-09

Administrative Contact:
Herrit, Gary garyherrit@yahoo.com
208 E. Metzger Ave.
Butler, Para 16001
United States
4259847064 Fax --

Technical Contact:
Herrit, Gary
208 E. Metzger Ave.
Butler, Para 16001
United States
4259847064 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS35.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS36.DOMAINCONTROL.COM


A very smart potential cyber-mule, who, when contacted recognizes it as a scam:

quote:
SCAM:

Yes, it is - www.hongkongsolutions.com - a website and SEO company. I received a "business offer" from them too. I think they saw my resume on Monster or Careerbuilder. In a nutshell they say you'll make about 50K a year simply by starting an S-Corp and opening-up some kind of online store so they can run their US sales through it. 50K for basically doing nothing sounded fishy. I've got a lot more info in saved emails from "Harry" (if that's his real name) who is with Hong Kong Solutions. If anyone wants to see them let me know...

Ref:»www.trustlink.org/ViewQuestion.a···onID=224

HONGKONGSOLUTIONS.COM

Lists an address in:

=========================
Hong Kong Solutions Inc. aka hongkongsolutions.com
RM 1315 Ctr 45 Chong
Yip St Kwub Tong Kl
Hong Kong,

Telephone +1-(206)-203-1947
=========================

With a Washington state IPKall VOIP forwarding phone number. A domain registered to a Butler, PA address (fraudulent).

Priors:

World Creative Studio Inc. aka worldcreativestudio.com pretending to be in Warsaw Poland.

Balaton Design, Inc. aka balatondesign.com pretending to be in Balatonföldvár, Hungary.

MGD
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