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[Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.photogeyThis is the same small charge $9.87 credit card fraud scheme posted on other threads although I have not yet seen these two sites specifically mentioned. If you see a small charge from either of these companies please:
1. Report the FRAUD to your credit card company, do not just dispute the charge - state that it is FRAUD and insist on a chargeback. Get a new credit card # and close the old account.
2. Report the fraud to www.ic3.gov with as much detail as possible
3. DO NOT attempt to contact the company as they will reverse the charges but may charge you again next month. They would rather refund your money then be investigated for fraud. HOWEVER, if you want to help stop them work through ic3.gov and your credit card FRAUD division.
4. Check your credit card statements carefully every month.
There are many forums out there regarding this topic... all you need to do is search on small charge credit card fraud or even 9.87 charge credit card fraud. |
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Re: [Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.photSorry - other site name was cut off... it was
www.photogeyser.com |
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Another site in this network just popped up... » polishpicturesonline.com/they use the same exact pictures and text as the other two... watch out for this one... looks like it has been live for a little over a week. |
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Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium Member join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 1 edit |
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Two are hidden by their robots.txt contents and the last one doesn't have a robots.txt file at all. www.prophotosland.com» www.prophotosland.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /
www.photogeyser.com» www.photogeyser.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /
www.polishpicturesonline.com» www.polishpicturesonline ··· bots.txt Page Not Found
Intereresting also is that the Contacts from each site are different. With a name or two from another group of scam-front sites. :[ » www.prophotosland.com/in ··· =contactSupport: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@prophotosland.com tel: (609) 916-0040 » www.photogeyser.com/inde ··· =contactSupport: Eric Robertson e-mail: support@photogeyser.com tel: (301) 979-9960 » www.polishpicturesonline ··· =contactSupport: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@polishpicturesonline.com tel: (214) 556-6190 Strange... Regards, Doctor Olds |
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Another one is popping up with similar text... home page is different but text and some photos are the same: » imagesparadise.com/ |
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Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium Member join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 |
www.imagesparadise.com» www.imagesparadise.com/r ··· bots.txt Page Not Found
» www.imagesparadise.com/i ··· =contactSupport: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imagesparadise.com tel: (214) 556-6153 |
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to jswanson
MGD should probably add these to the list |
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Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium Member join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 |
to jswanson
Found another one: www.photosparadise.com» www.photosparadise.com/r ··· bots.txt Page Not Found
» www.photosparadise.com/i ··· =contactSupport: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@photosparadise.com tel: (214) 556-6153 |
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And another.... www.imgparadise.com» www.imgparadise.com/robots.txt Page Not Found
» www.imgparadise.com/inde ··· =contactSupport: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imgparadise.com tel: (213) 984-4966 Cute. NOT! |
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to jswanson
And this oddball one. www.zenithgraphic.com» www.zenithgraphic.com/co ··· kies.txt Page Not Found
» www.zenithgraphic.com/in ··· =contactSupport: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@zenithgraphic.com tel: (504) 208-4860 General: Edris Hoover info@zenithgraphic.com tel: (505) 350-8506 Jupiter, LLC 8210 Robin Ave NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 |
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fireflier
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2008-Feb-27 11:37 am
Interesting that the name "Jupiter, LLC" is shown there. Wasn't the name jupiter involved in some other less recent CC charging scams? |
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crazfamily to jswanson
Anon
2008-Feb-27 12:33 pm
to jswanson
This has happened to me recently. I will go to that web site asap. also this must be wide spread. It looks like the credit card companys would pick up on this. |
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Juliette to jswanson
Anon
2008-Feb-27 1:00 pm
to jswanson
This just happened to me with prophotosland - I contacted my credit card's fraud dept. and filed a complaint.
The weird thing is that they were telling me that that charge was from a local mall (which I have not shopped at in weeks and at which there is no such store) and that my card was swiped (I had my card with me).
Card closed, charge replaced, but am curious about how it came up as a local charge with my card swiped... |
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said by jswanson:This is the same small charge $9.87 credit card fraud scheme posted on other threads although I have not yet seen these two sites specifically mentioned. ....... Oh Excellent, thank you for Heads Up!! And lets continue with Doctor Olds 's digging. pcdebb is indeed correct, into the data base they go. I can confirm positively that these are the next round of "Globus" fraud sites from Doctor Olds 's thread: » pictureglobus.com, imaglobus.com, and templateglobus.com nowI need to see if anyone who is a slickdeals member can either IM or post to this thread: » forums.slickdeals.net/sh ··· ngle.comThe poster "Minette" may have some valuable info I need. They got charged $9.87 by PROPHOTOSLAND.COM on 1/27 and subsequently got hit by according to them: "a company called "Alkay Services LLC", this time on ANOTHER credit card I own, for the amount of $9.64. Same business (photo) according to my bank (Chase).I need the phone number that may have been listed on the line item charge, or at least part of it. if it was not listed on the charge the card issuer should be able to give it to them. If anyone else has a "Alkay Services LLC" charge and has or can get the number. This group is also using the same deflecting tactic as the globus group, by telling victims someone registered on the site with their car. More than likely any victim who bought that lie and got a credit will have been hit with a second charge the next month. Any subsequent second hit names and full info is vital in following the trail. The C&C website for the Globus was the bogus "Hermes Electro" hermeselectro.com: » hermeselectro.com pretending to be in Hong Kong:
The C&C for this picture, image, photo, fraud group is a bogus site "Hong-Kong Content Trade", hkc-trade.com: » hkc-trade.com/A direct clone of the other one:
There are no records that indicate a business by those names exist at either of those addresses. Need to add picturesjungle.com » www.picturesjungle.com/i ··· =contact to the list also. I am off the belief that the names listed on the sites such as Eric Robertson, also of Globus fame, and Cristian Darie etc. are all fictitious. Having spent countless hours checking LLCs' and corp registrations in the state of Texas, including multiple county FBN lists, I do not believe they exist. At least until something substantial comes up to indicate otherwise. You will notice from the added info to the sites listed above, that not only are the current crop using GoDaddy hosting, so were the Globus group. I am not sure if it was posted, but one of the early victims of the Globus run, was told by GoDaddy that they would not shut them down without legal action. I will try and find a copy. This group probably represents one of the most egregious lack of due care by a hosting company. Providing these criminals with a conduit, which enables them access to payment gateways allowing them to fraudulently process thousands of credit cards is unbelievable. Lets just look at the worst case: We have hosting provided to supposed e-commerce sites, where one can readily see from the robots.txt file, that no one could even find them. Plus their domain registration is cloaked, hidden. The only information published is a bogus name, and a cell phone contact number. Now we are seeing supposed e-commerce sites registered to bogus locations in Hong Kong, and they are using contact phone numbers in various US states. The entire set up configuration reeks of fraud, a four year old could spot it, before the first charge ever hit. http://www.polishpicturesonline.com/index.php?action=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@polishpicturesonline.com tel: 214-556-6190 no scam reports 214-556-6190 Type: Land Line Provider: MCI Worldcom Communications Inc Location: Plano, TX Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: POLISHPICTURESONLINE.COM Created on: 30-Dec-07 Expires on: 30-Dec-09 Last Updated on: 30-Dec-07 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO support@hkc-trade.com Honk-Kong Content Trade Company 426 King's Road North Point, N/A 000000 Hong Kong 85281980664 Domain servers in listed order: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM » www.prophotosland.com/in ··· =contactSupport: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@prophotosland.com tel: 609-916-0040 (609) 916-0040 Type: Land Line Provider: Focal Communications Corp Location: Pleasantville, NJ PROPHOTOSLAND.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PROPHOTOSLAND.COM Created on: 05-Dec-07 Expires on: 05-Dec-08 Last Updated on: 05-Dec-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM » www.imagesparadise.com/i ··· =contactSupport: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imagesparadise.com tel: 214-556-6153 (214) 556-6153 Type: Land Line Provider: MCI Worldcom Communications Inc Location: Plano, TX Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: IMAGESPARADISE.COM Created on: 07-Feb-08 Expires on: 07-Feb-09 Last Updated on: 07-Feb-08 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO haitao.zhang44@yahoo.com 426 King's Road Hong Kong, North Point -- Hong Kong 85281980623 Domain servers in listed order: NS23.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS24.DOMAINCONTROL.COM » www.photogeyser.com/inde ··· =contactSupport: Eric Robertson e-mail: support@photogeyser.com tel: (301) 979-9960 (301) 979-9960Type: Land Line Provider: Verizon Location: Washington, MD PHOTOGEYSER.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PHOTOGEYSER.COM Created on: 14-Nov-07 Expires on: 14-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 14-Nov-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM » www.picturesjungle.com/i ··· =contactSupport: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@picturesjungle.com tel: (706) 955-4677 (706) 955-4677Type: Land Line Provider: Level 3 Communications Location: Augusta, GA PICTURESJUNGLE.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PICTURESJUNGLE.COM Created on: 27-Nov-07 Expires on: 27-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 27-Nov-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS27.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM HKC-TRADE.COM Registrant: HKC Trade Co. 426 King's Road Honk Kong, North Point - Hong Kong Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: HKC-TRADE.COM Created on: 28-Nov-07 Expires on: 29-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 28-Nov-07 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO haitao.zhang44@yahoo.com HKC Trade Co. 426 King's Road Honk Kong, North Point - Hong Kong +852 2562 8127 Domain servers in listed order: NS27.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM MGD |
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Hi MGD,
Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. Same visuals/text as photogeyser and prophotosland.com. Alex McGuire is also the contact on this one. Just looks like a different version. |
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juicyminidonut
Anon
2008-Mar-6 7:19 pm
said by jswanson:Hi MGD, Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. Same visuals/text as photogeyser and prophotosland.com. Alex McGuire is also the contact on this one. Just looks like a different version. Same thing happened to me, a charge was listed on my account for $9.87 from www.photosmix.com. Did you ever get through to the phone number listed on the website? After reading this forum, I called once and didn't bother trying again, and called my bank instead. They reimbursed me but it's kind of a hassle now that I have do the paperwork to file it as a fraudulent charge and everything... and I also have to wait for a new card in the mail... |
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www.photosmix.com happened to me as well. I've filed a complaint with the fraud department of my bank, used the government website listed above, and e-mailed the abuse@godaddy.com website, as they are the host for this website (their "secure site" logo is at the bottom left). I may even go file a complaint with the local police department today, and even go so far as contacting the better business bureau. |
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hkfczrqj to jswanson
Anon
2008-Mar-7 4:37 pm
to jswanson
add me to the www.photosmix.com scam. Will proceed as stated in this thread. Thanks for the very complete info on this fraud. |
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said by jswanson:Hi MGD, Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. ..... Yes indeed, good find. They are confirmed as a fraud operation. Also had the robots.txt no follow search block. As a matter of fact, the site went down while I was checking it. Not sure why, or if it will stay down. Many of these set ups are paid for with hijacked card data. GoDaddy needs to get with program and put a stop to this fraud hosting and domain registration cloaking. The names on the sites, such as Alex McGuire are boogus. [photosmix.com IP 72.167.110.64]
Registrant:PHOTOSMIX.COM Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PHOTOSMIX.COM Created on: 17-Dec-07 Expires on: 18-Dec-08 Last Updated on: 17-Dec-07
Administrative Contact: Private, Registration PHOTOSMIX.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599
Domain servers in listed order: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
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Add one more to the photosmix.com scam. Showed up on our bill today. Hope all who get this report it as a fraud-- these folks need to be stopped. |
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Another one to watch out for... www.glossyeldorado.com. Gotta love that name MGD... please add to the db! There are other sites that talk about this scam: » www.ripoffreport.com/rep ··· 6667.htmThe most annoying thing for me is that my credit card company charged me $10.00 for a new card... to make sure the $9.87 doesn't turn into a recurring charge I am made to pay $10.00. I will be cancelling that card. |
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MGD
MVM
2008-Mar-14 3:21 am
said by jswanson:Another one to watch out for... www.glossyeldorado.com. Gotta love that name MGD... please add to the db! .............. Done !! said by jswanson:.......The most annoying thing for me is that my credit card company charged me $10.00 for a new card... to make sure the $9.87 doesn't turn into a recurring charge I am made to pay $10.00. I will be cancelling that card. That is unbelievable !! You are actually saving them money by telling them to cancel and reissue the card. You are not liable for fraudulent charges, it becomes their problem. The alternative is to allow these criminals to hit the card with new charges every two weeks, and let the Bank deal with them. Until such time as they catch on, and decide to re issue it at their own expense. If this is a National or large Regional Bank, please name them. The only possibility that I am thinking of, is that they are a small credit union or something. Either way it is ridiculous to charge a customer, who through no fault of their own, becomes the victim of card fraud. I am not even sure that it is legal under Federal Law to do so. I could see it if you had lost the card, or otherwise contributed to the problem. Just on principle alone I would raise all kinds of commotion with that institution. It has to be a small non profit credit union or something, correct?. If not, they via their CSR are entirely clueless. They just don't get it. MGD |
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GLOSSYELDORADO.COM
A new twist on the search engine blocking, specifically line items Google:
No contact phone number, only the made up name Cristian Darrie.
And a familiar bogus GoDaddy domain registation, and GoDaddy hosting:
Registrant: HAITAO ZHANG 426 King's Road Hong Kong, North Point -- Hong Kong
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: GLOSSYELDORADO.COM Created on: 15-Feb-08 Expires on: 15-Feb-09 Last Updated on: 15-Feb-08
Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO haitao.zhang44@yahoo.com 426 King's Road Hong Kong, North Point -- Hong Kong 85281980611
MGD
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Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium Member join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 |
to jswanson
said by jswanson:add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. Same visuals/text as photogeyser and prophotosland.com. Alex McGuire is also the contact on this one. Just looks like a different version. www.photosmix.com» www.photosmix.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow:
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Hi MGD,
It was a small credit union as you guessed and believe me, I will be talking to someone pretty high up about their policy. I will most likely also close the account as I have not been happy with their response.
Thanks for all of your work on this! |
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lorider680 to jswanson
Anon
2008-Mar-16 12:47 am
to jswanson
Chalk me up for Photogeyser.com. Glad I stumbled on this forum. Going to call my bank and have a new card issued. |
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Looks like photosmix.com and prophotosland.com are back up and running so beware... their site states "Our hosting provider has accidently delegated our domain to a different company... " not sure what this means as they still have the same GoDaddy logo. GoDaddy may have received enough abuse complaints that they made them change something... but obviously they are still operational. Perhaps MGD, you will know what this means.
I am guessing there will be another round of charges in the next few weeks... |
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Victim 1947 to jswanson
Anon
2008-Mar-18 12:09 pm
to jswanson
A charge of $9.64 from a Michael P Hamilton in Maryland (213-984-4966) posted to my Chase on 3-14-08. A foreign voice recording, gave an indiscernible .com name, not Hamilton, not prophotoland, etc. Sounds like "time share" but is indiscernible. I see $9.64 has been used on previous attacks. Chase described Hamilton as an Art Dealer, but said they would do the charge back. They did not want to close/replace the card. So I asked the rep to clearly state for their recording that they were declining to close the account for fraud. They said they will investigate. I'll monitor the account daily. |
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deanhuff
Anon
2008-Mar-18 4:28 pm
Add another for MICHAEL P HAMILTON $9.64 on 03/15/2008. Bank of America gave me a new account number and re-imbursed the money.
I also had another charge for around $3 from "M BAR C RANCH" in Pending state but never posted.
I saw on the news that a local grocer called Sweetbay had a security breach and gave out a bunch of card numbers. Sure enough, I had 1 Sweetbay transaction in early December. |
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MGD,
Please add stockimagemix.com to the database. Another one with the exact same home page... unbelievable. Same bogus support name of Alex McGuire, etc.
Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@stockimagemix.com tel: (561) 283-4229 |
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