jswanson
join:2008-02-24
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Re: [Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.phot
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/reports/0/3···6667.htm
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. |
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MGD
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join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| 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.
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MGD
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| reply to jswanson
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
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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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jswanson
join:2008-02-24
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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
@okheart.com | reply 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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jswanson
join:2008-02-24
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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
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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
@rr.com
| 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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jswanson
join:2008-02-24
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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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jswanson
join:2008-02-24 | reply to jswanson
MGD,
And stockimageplanet.com
Support: Alex McGuire
e-mail: support@stockimageplanet.com
tel: (941) 312-2230 |
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said by deanhuff :
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.
It was their parent company "Hannaford", which Sweetbay Supermarkets is one of their stores, but I do believe many of their other chains are affected as well.
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jim123
@cox.net | reply to jswanson
how do they get the card # ???? |
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garys_2k
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how do they get the card # ????
That's the big question. This gang gets numbers for cards that are actively in use, used VERY infrequently and some that have never been used before. They also seem to submit a fairly high number of wrong numbers that get rejected, too, so their data is far from perfect. |
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said by jim123 :
how do they get the card # ????
They need more than just the card number. A card number alone is nearly useless.
Some of the data theft comes from this avenue:
»10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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MGD
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said by Victim 1947 :
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.
That was a fraud charge from Imgparadise.com:
They are part of this sub group of Globus / Image / Pictures themed fraud sites laundering hijacked card data. »pictureglobus.com, imaglobus.com, and templateglobus.com now
I suspect "Michael P Hamilton in Maryland" may be a secondary merchant account, set up in a cyber mule's name after the original one was terminated for excessive chargebacks.
The phone number 213-984-4966 and the recording is definitely part of this group;
 213-984-4966.wav 453498 bytes
The reason Chase probably described them as an "Art Dealer", is from their interpretation of the vendor classification code assigned to the merchant account.
Chase will eventually have to cancel and replace your card. Yes, do keep a close eye on it, you will get more charges.
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1 edit | reply to deanhuff
said by deanhuff :
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 assume the "M BAR C RANCH" appeared first, that would be a "ping" charge to validate the account. I wonder if these people »www.m-bar-c.org/ have a merchant account that was hacked.
[EDIT= They do have a merchant account: »https://payments.auctionpay.com/ver3/?id=w038846 ]
said by deanhuff :
.....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.
I am fairly certain that the Hannaford data would not be sufficient to be proccessed for this CNP type of fraud transactions. "IF", what Hannaford's reps stated is true, that customers names were NOT intercepted, then the data that the hackers got was the TRACK 2 card data. That would only enable them to use the data for fraudulent POS (Point of Sale) transactions. Typically that data is encoded on to white stock" and used where the card is not presented, e.g. gas stations etc. A common cheap method that they can use the stolen data for store POS fraud purchases is to clone the data on to used VISA / MC branded gift cards. That way they can be presented and swiped without causing suspicion.
I have not seen any reports yet of the specific fraud use of the 1,800 victims of the Hannaford data so far. If the type of data leaked is correct, fraud use should be limited to POS transactions.
Up until your card was replaced, you could have been the victim of fraud from that as well. However, for an online CNP transaction, the full name and address would have been needed, along with the CVV2 security code. The security code is only printed on the card, and is not embedded in any of the track magnetic data.
A merchant gateway account for an online only entiity, such as these scams, will usually require the use of (AVS) and (CVV2) to restrict fraud. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Ve···n_System
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MGD
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said by jswanson :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..... That was no "accident", upon reviewing the domain transaction history, the most likely reason is that the payment for the original registration was charged back to GoDaddy. These criminals use hijacked victim financial data to pay for all the support and hosting services.
The domains were originally registered using go GoDaddy's domainsbyproxy cloaking service that hides the details of the registration for an additional fee. That service is a crime magnet, and should never be available for sites that are set up for e-commerce. The can only be a nefarious purpose in hiding the ownership of a commercial site engaged in payment processing.
On or about March 08th, GoDaddy took possesion of the photosmix.com domain and put it up for sale:
----------------------------------------
Domain: photosmix.com
.
Domain History
.
Cache Date: 2008-03-08
.
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
.
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.
Registrant:
Godaddy Software
14455 N Hayden Rd
Suite 219
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
United States
.
Domain Name: PHOTOSMIX.COM
Created on: 17-Dec-07
Expires on: 18-Dec-08
Last Updated on: 07-Mar-08
.
Administrative Contact:
domains for sale, Godaddy Software
domains4sale[@]godaddy.com
Godaddy Software
14455 N Hayden Rd
Suite 219
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
United States
480-505-8800 Fax -- 480-505-8844
.
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That ownership reversion indicates that payment funds were charged back. Ridiculous as it may seem, the criminals would still have an opportunity to "make good" on the funds and recover the domain. Which they apparently did around March 16th, as the domain then reverted back to a domainsbyproxy cloaked status:
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.
Domain: photosmix.com
.
Domain History
.
Cache Date: 2008-03-16
.
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
.
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
.
Domain Name: PHOTOSMIX.COM
Created on: 17-Dec-07
Expires on: 18-Dec-08
Last Updated on: 12-Mar-08
.
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
.
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said by jswanson :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 said by jswanson :MGD, And stockimageplanet.com Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@stockimageplanet.com tel: (941) 312-2230 Done,
Below is a current list of the group, the current status needs to be updated as it is over a week old:
Fraud Domain Date of Reg Registrar Hosted IP Provider Status Contact N umber
----------- --------- -------- -------- ------- ----- -------- ---
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PHOTOSMIX.COM 17-Dec-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.110.64* GoDaddy.com Down 941-312- 2213
. back up 03/12/08 on 208.109.181.27 (03/07/08)
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PICTURESJUNGLE.COM 27-Nov-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.116.221 GoDaddy.com UP 706-955- 4677
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POLISHPICTURESONLINE 30-Dec-07 GoDaddy.com 72.167.58.216 GoDaddy.com Parked 214-556- 6190
.COM
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PHOTOGEYSER.COM 14-Nov-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.107.98 GoDaddy.com UP 301-979- 9960
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IMAGESPARADISE.COM 07-Feb-08 GoDaddy.com 216.69.131.90 GoDaddy.com UP 214-556- 6153
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PROPHOTOSLAND.COM[*] 05-Dec-07 DomainsByProxy *216.69.138.250 GoDaddy.com UP 609-916- 0040
. *(Was For Sale scammers recovered)*Hosted at 208.109.165.98 Prior to 03/16/ 08
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PHOTOSPARADISE.COM 12-Jan-08 GoDaddy.com 216.69.140.242 GoDaddy.com UP 214-717- 5031
. & 214-556- 6153
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GLOSSYELDORADO.COM 15-Feb-08 GoDaddy.com 72.167.168.179 GoDaddy.com UP No Numbe r
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IMGPARADISE.COM 11-Jan-08 DomainsByProxy 72.167.78.41 GoDaddy.com UP 213-984- 4966
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IMAGLOBUS.COM 26-Aug-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.3.161 GoDaddy.com UP 210-807- 4272
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TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM 16-Oct-07 DomainsByProxy* 72.167.23.251 GoDaddy.com Down**210-807- 4272
. 208.109.182.137 ** as of 03/12/08 Spam-and-abu se
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PICTUREGLOBUS.COM 13-Nov-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.106.230 GoDaddy.com Down 210-807- 4272
. 03/09/08
.
ZENITHGRAPHIC.COM 04-Oct-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.27.37 GoDaddy.com UP 504-208- 4860
. & 505-350- 8506
.
STOCKIMAGEMIX.COM 18-Dec-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.56.91 GoDaddy.com UP 561-283- 4229
.
STOCKIMAGEPLANET.COM 10-Dec-07 DomainsByProxy 208.109.174.94 GoDaddy.com UP 941-312- 2230
.
LOADOFPHOTOS.COM 05-Dec-07 DomainsByProxy 72.167.9.148 GoDaddy.com UP 870-619- 4035
.
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C&C support sites
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HERMESELECTRO.COM 15-Aug-07 GoDaddy.com 208.109.138.8 GoDaddy.com UP (10)8528120 4462
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HKC-TRADE.COM 28-Nov-07 GoDaddy.com 72.167.4.140 GoDaddy.com UP (10)8528198 0664
.
Let me know if there are any missing from that list.
The last two that you posted, both have the robots.txt file set to block search engine archiving:
»https://www.stockimagemix.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow:
STOCKIMAGEPLANET.COM
STOCKIMAGEMIX.COM
I am positive that the names listed on any of these sites are fictitious. Not long after the first generation "globus" sites were posted by Doctor Olds in this post »pictureglobus.com, imaglobus.com, and templateglobus.com now I ran searches on the names through the Texas division of corporations, and did not find any relevant business registrations under the related names:
CONTACT NAME: MGD
SESSION STATUS: Open
DATE: 020108KBDNCR
2/1/2008 2:04:31 PM
------------------------------------------------------------
Client Reference Document Number Document Type Status Received Date Document Fee
[ NONE ] 201976250002 Corporations - Names Availability (No decision making) {globus} Processed 2/1/2008 2:07:05 PM $1.00
[ NONE ] 201976250003 Corporations - Find by Assumed Name {imaglobus} Processed 2/1/2008 2:13:41 PM $1.00
[ NONE ] 201976250004 Corporations - Find-Global {pictureglobus} Processed 2/1/2008 2:18:50 PM $1.00
[ NONE ] 201976250005 Corporations - Find by Registered Agent {Robertson} Processed 2/1/2008 2:20:37 PM $1.00
[ NONE ] 201976250006 Corporations - Find by Registered Agent {eric Robertson} Processed 2/1/2008 2:22:17 PM $1.00
[ NONE ] 201976250007 Corporations - Find {Atala} Processed 2/1/2008 2:25:22 PM $1.00
This fraud division is probably the most egregious example of failure in the merchant account vetting process seen so far.
We have sites where not only are the domain registrations cloaked, but there is also invalid contact information listed on the sites. Nothing more than a bogus name, and a cell phone number.
The major security flaw in the merchant account vetting process, and one of obvious malfeasance, is that there is no check to make sure that the domain is actually registered by the business entity applying for the merchant account. In theory a business registered as Igor Cyber Scammer LLC. could open a merchant account for homedepot.com or Sears.com. Just the fact alone that an e-commerce site with no B&M location has a hidden domain registration should be enough to set alarm bells ringing. That's before we even get to the fact that an e-commerce site is hiding its existence from every search engine. The fact that there are no folders containing graphic images "the intangible product for sale", is just icing on the cake.
We do know who the merchant account provider is, yes, as usual it is Authorize.net / cybersource. That has been established from data supplied from victim debriefings. Credit issuing notifications sent to victims who complained, came from the authorize.net account control panel:
From MICHAEL ALLISON "REDACTED" 2008
Return-Path:
Authentication-Results: mta116.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=ghg.net; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 64.94.119.18 (EHLO anetrelay2f.authorize.net) (64.94.119.18)
by mta116.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:10 -0800
Received: from extta5f.authorize.net [64.94.118.194]
by anetrelay2f.authorize.net (StrongMail Enterprise 3.2.2.2(3.00.287)); "REDACTED" -0800
Received: from mail pickup service by extta5f.authorize.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
"REDACTED" -0700
From: "MICHAEL ALLISON" MIKEALLISON@ghg.net
To: "REDACTED"
Subject: TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM Customer Receipt/Purchase Confirmation
Date: "REDACTED" -0700
Importance: Normal
Message-ID:
Content-Length: 572
Sent: "REDACTED", 2008 "REDACTED"
Subject: TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM Customer Receipt/Purchase Confirmation
=========
GENERAL
INFORMATION
=========
Merchant
:
TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM
Date/Time
:
"REDACTED"
"REDACTED"
PM
Transaction
ID
"REDACTED"
=========
ORDER
INFORMATION
=========
Type
:
REFUND
Though GoDaddy is on record at the beginning as refusing to shut the hosting operation down without legal action, which is out of character of their normal trigger happy removal behavior. They have now done so to at least one of the sites. By doing so, they have also unmasked the original cloaked domain registration, which is SOP.
TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM is showing terminated as of 03/12/08 for "Spam and Abuse".
The original TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM cloaked domain registration:
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Domain Name: TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM
Created on: 16-Oct-07
Expires on: 16-Oct-08
Last Updated on: 28-Nov-07
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration TEMPLATEGLOBUS.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:
NS29.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS30.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Once the site violated the TOS and was shut down around 2008-03-12, that cloaking service also ceased. The domain reverted to the actual data entered at the time of the original registration.
Registrant:
ERNEST TAYLOR
29159 PERCH LAKE RD
WATERTOWN, New York 13601
United States
Domain Name: TEMPLATEGLOBUS.COM
Created on: 16-Oct-07
Expires on: 16-Oct-08
Last Updated on: 28-Nov-07
Administrative Contact:
TAYLOR, ERNEST templateglobus@yahoo.com
29159 PERCH LAKE RD
WATERTOWN, New York 13601
United States
(315) 629-5442 Fax --
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
Good reason to want to hide it, there are no records of an Ernest Taylor at that address. A reverse check of the street address shows a different first and last name. That phone number is not even for that locale, the number shows for a party in Evans Mills, NY 13637.
Clearly, with a little lobbying Godaddy could be motivated to pull the hosting on the entire operational group. Fraud and cyber crime are TOS violations, and there is more than ample evidence to confirm that they are all fraudulent.
In addition, the terms of service page on all the fraud sites are hijacked word for word from the legit gettyimages.com »www.gettyimages.com See: »www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/Terms.aspx
In fact on zenithgraphic.com they did not even remove Getty Images name:
»https://www.zenithgraphic.com/index.php?action=terms
If those terms are unique to Getty Images and not generic, then Getty would have a cause for action for copyright violations.
Some pressure applied to GoDaddy now to pull the rug from this criminal operation, should be effective. To continue to host this obvious fraudulent enterprise would amount to knowingly aiding on ongoing criminal enterprise. Victims of this fraud might well consider that actionable.
EDIT= Added LOADOFPHOTOS.COM to master list 03/29/08
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jswanson
join:2008-02-24
| MGD,
I have reported these sites to godaddy, both to president@godaddy.com and abuse@godaddy.com. I am not satisfied with their response:
From godaddy:
"If you were, in fact, fraudulently charged through use of one or more of these sites, we can only recommend that you contact local law enforcement.
We have forwarded this to our Abuse Department for further investigation of potentially illegal activity. Of course, we cannot guarantee that any action will be taken, but we appreciate that you have brought this matter to our attention."
I would add to the steps to take if you are a victim of this fraud to contact both president@godaddy.com and abuse@godaddy.com. Perhaps if they get enough complaints they will do what you advise and shut these guys down. A few policy changes to verify legit entities is all it would take to stop this fraud.
Again, thanks for all of your work. BTW, I did get a chargeback that stated "fraud adjustment". Can I get my credit card company to give me the details of the chargeback?
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