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Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto A cyber-mule from the above group was tracked down, alerted, and debriefed. One of the confirmed FRAUD recruiting websites that was used to recruit cyber-mules for this division is Planera Project PLANERAPROJECT.COM +46-031 799 59 48
Contact info for Sweden below a US city shot:
Their Services:
Their Portfolio, lists legit sites they fraudulenty claim that they designed:
As has been posted multiple times before, Sweden is again used as a bogus location for this fake "custom website and development business".
Address:
Finlandsgatan 16 SE-164 74 KISTA Sweden
Phone: +46-031 799 59 48
Email: sales@planeraproject.com
Some of the text from the fraud site for archive purposes:
quote:
Planera Project is a one-stop web design and graphic design service located in Stockholm, Sweden. We've been providing small to mid-sized companies in Stockholm with website and graphic design since 2001. Welcome to our labs!
Regardless of your Internet requirements, whether online marketing, hosting, web development, print graphics or support, Planera Project is the company to trust. Offering innovative products and services, Planera Project helps increase revenue while at the same time assures customer communication is enhanced. Our wide array of online Internet related services greatly enables our clients to increase market exposure
In what has become a fiercely competitive business arena, Planera Project provides a host of services that facilitate a company's activities, ensuring your business stays ahead of the Internet game. With a strong, stable technological background as well as advanced knowledge of the Internet, we are in the unique position to empower both smaller and larger organizations. Whether your need is for web site design, web site development, hosting services, print graphics or web site promotional activities, Planera Project offers the best choices and the most cost effective approaches for your business endeavors.
Recently uncovered is another massive recruiting campaign, where victims who have resumes posted on careerbuilders.com and monster.com are now being aggressively targeted by the organized crime syndicate. They also targeting regional job sites, and they have been found in cities such as Atlanta, Georgia.
More than a dozen fraudulent cyber-mule recruiting sites have been uncovered, all directly tied to this organized criminal operation, many are still active. This clearly qualifies as an epidemic.
It is now incumbent on both national and regional job sites to post clear warnings to individuals who submit resumes alerting them to this massive fraud campaign. Some of the recent cyber-mules are clearly not internet savvy, nor do they understand what constitutes a legitimate business in cyberspace. Furthermore, some of the heinous tactics used by the crime syndicate involve the use of a third party referral, as if the site where the victim has their resume posted is contacting them on behalf of the fraudulent job website. This is an additional attempt to add legitimacy to the job offer and make it appear that they have been vetted or approved by the original location. More on that later, first lets run down both the active and defunct fraud recruiting sites:
GLOBAL DESIGNERS Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 GLOBALDESIGNERS.ORG
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
Same fake portfolio list as the above PlaneraPlanet planeraproject.com:
I00% FRAUDULENT:
[Insert Name] is a one-stop web design and graphic design service located in Stockholm, Sweden. We've been providing small to mid-sized companies in Stockholm with website and graphic design since 2001. Welcome to our creative resource and make the Internet work for you!
quote:
GLOBAL DESIGNERS AND YOU - A PERFECT FIT!
If you are an ambitious, high-energy person who enjoys a fast-paced team environment laced with challenges and opportunities, you've come to the right place. Read on to discover how to pursue employment opportunities with us. Global Designers offers great jobs, great pay, great benefits and a great place to work!
WE WANT YOU TO BE PART OF OUR TEAM
Email us at: info@globaldesigners.org or just complete the form at Contact page.
Our customer service will provide you with details regarding the position of Affiliate Company Director.
Of course they all will have fraudulent testimonials to add legitimacy and convince potential cyber-mules.
quote:
• With over 25 years experience in graphic design, Global Designers's team of talented designers are ready to serve your design needs with stunning graphics and websites. We also aspire to provide a high customer service ethic. Call us today and let us help you define the look of your business •
• Martin Muller, CEO
Another fraudulent recruiting clone:
GLOBAL DESIGN Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 GLOBALDESIGN.COM
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
and:
UNIQUE DESIGN SOLUTIONS Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 UNIQUEDESIGNSOLUTIONS.ORG
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
and:
UNIQUE DESIGN SOLUTIONS Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 WEB-D-SIGNERS.COM
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
and:
WEB DESIGN ART Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 WEB-DSIGN-ART.NET
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
and:
TOTAL iSTUDIO Phone: +46-46-288 52 67 TOTALISTUDIOONE.ORG
Frejgatan 13 11479 Stockholm Sweden
Another genre of the fraud recruiting sites that is directly connected to this crime syndicate is:
RECRUIT ZONE recruitzone.org
Phone: +46-08-559 24 673
E-mail: info@recruitzone.org
Address: Vastra Vattugrand 3c. 115 21 Stockholm Sweden
quote:
WELCOME TO RECRUIT ZONE WEB SITE
RECRUIT ZONE, the candidate research company,
delivers the most comprehensive and actionable
candidate information in the marketplace today.
RECRUIT ZONE provides adaptable and scalable
pipeline support for recruiters, agencies and
growth-minded corporations.
WE DELIVER STAFF: use EXCELLENT OFFERS to meet your resource needs
In today's fast-paced and complex world of staffing, there are plenty of companies, solutions and technologies competing for your attention. How do you quickly cut through the clutter to find the one resource that cuts straight to the chase – matching the best talent with the most appropriate opportunities? You look for the one staffing service provider that has the experience, resources, know-how and drive to deliver maximum results.
» THAT'S EXCELLENT OFFERS!
» THE TOTALLY RISK FREE
E-RECRUITMENT SERVICE
Online candidate attraction solutions that deliver targeted applicants for your vacancies.
The "services"
They even claim affiliation with Monster.com and careerbuilders.com and use their logos:
Close up:
A clone of Recruit Zone:
EXCELLENT OFFERS Phone: +46-08-559 24 673 EXCLLENTOFFERS.ORG
Vastra Vattugrand 3c. 115 21 Stockholm Sweden
and:
THE CAREER PLANET Phone: +46-08-559 24 673 THECAREERPLANET.COM
Vastra Vattugrand 3c. 115 21 Stockholm Sweden
A 03/14/08 posting from a potential cyber-mule asking if the resume response is legit:
I was wondering if anyone has heard of the this company or currently works for them?
said by I was wondering if anyone has heard of the this company or currently works for them? :I represent recruiting company TheCareerPlanet.com (» www.thecareerplanet.com). I have found your resume on CareerBuilder.com and we considered that one of our positions may be interesting for you, according to you skills and background. We have a vacancy for position of Assistant Director. This is part-time in-home position requiring 1-2 hour a day. The minimum salary on this position is $1100/month. If you are interested, I'll provide you with all details and we'll consider you as a candidate. if you are not interested, anyway please let me know and we will try to find something for you. Best regards, Hanna Berit TheCareerPlanet.com Vastra Vattugrand 3c . 115 21 Stockholm Sweden ref:»www.workplacelikehome.com/forum/···p=858349
Additional fraud recruiting sites now 404, that are directly connected:
STAFFDRIVE staffdrive.com
Google's cache of a 31 Jan 2008 shot:
KreatEEve +46-46-288 52 67 kreateeve.com
Google's cache of a 31 Jan 2008 shot:
Web Site Masters design studio recruitersolutions.org
Site disabled, no Google cache,
Cyber-mule posting:
Annelie
May 8, 2008 @ 10:02 am
Wow!! This is the one I received from Recruitersolutions.org. I went far with them. I started the LLC and Opened up an account. Please, if there are anyone that went that far, please let me know what step you took to resolve your company registration and bank account.
This is really bad!!!
Dear Annelie,
Thank you for your answer, I’m glad that our offer is interesting for
you.
I want to give you more information about this job.
Our Swedish partner, Web Site Masters design studio, looking for
candidate for the position of Assistant Director. And we should to
find the candidate for this position use their requirements.
Web Site Masters provides their customers with wide variety of design
services for many years and has a great experience in this sphere.
Recently, the management of the company has decided to develop US
market, and for this purpose they need an associated business unit in
US. This decision is also motivated by having difficulties for
European companies with the ability to sell products and services for
US customers as well as intention to avoid heavy domestic taxes (as
you could know, Swedish taxation is probably one the heaviest in the
Europe). So they are going now to file an LLC in US. They will apply
to the company specializing in company formation in US. After the LLC
is formed, they will need a Assistant Director, who is to represent
this associated company in US. Maybe it sounds too complicated, but
actually the duties are quite easy.
Web Site Masters is planning to create a Web-store for US company to
sell their original products online. They are provide this products
with online marketing, hosting, web development, print graphics or
support. To accept payments online, it will be necessary to have a
merchant account. Unfortunately it is impossible for European company,
which has a merchant account in European bank, to accept payments
online from US customers (basically, it is possible, but with a lot of
limitations that make it impossible). So the Assistant Director, as a
company representative, will need to arrange a merchant account in US.
Web Site Masters will provide him with all necessary information and
instructions. It is expected that the US business unit Web Site
Masters is applying for will have a business bank account, but to the
moment, they are not sure yet, so maybe Assistant Director will also
need to arrange a business bank account for the associated company.
The primary Assistant Director’s duties are:
- Register LLC.
- Open business bank account and merchant account for LLC.
- Business bank account and Merchant account maintaining and
monitoring;
- Handling business correspondence and transmitting it to Web Site
Masters by fax or by mail (all expenses are reimbursed).
- Being in touch with Web Site Masters’s representative by e-mail and
follow his/her instructions.
This job will take 1-2 hours a day max to handle all of these duties.
The Assistant Director will get a commission, 5% on net profit of the
associated company’s Web-store.
Please let me know about your decision about this applying to this
position and feel free to ask any questions you have.
Best regards,
Bill Broussard.
RecruitSolutions.org
Ref:»fightidentitytheft.com/blog/-2-2···of-2007/
If you scroll down the above link for fightidentitytheft.org you will see several postings
from the fraud recruiting sites mixed in with the 419 posts.
This submit listing AtlantaJobsOnline.com shows that the criminals are targeting regional jobsites throughout the US as well:
July 6, 2008 @ 8:31 am Here is another scam email from Recruit Solutions. ************************************ I represent recruiting company RecruitSolutions.org (» www.RecruitSolutions.org). I have found your resume on AtlantaJobsOnline.com and we considered that one of our positions may be interesting for you, according to you skills and background. We have a vacancy for position of Assistant Director. This is part-time in-home position requiring 1-2 hour a day. The minimum salary on this position is $1100/month. If you are interested, I’ll provide you with all details and we’ll consider you as a candidate. if you are not interested, anyway please let me know and we will try to find something for you. Best regards, Karla Anders RecruitSolutions.org Vastra Vattugrand 3c . 115 21 Stockholm Sweden
The criminals are also responding to forum complaints with shill posts:
quote:
Ellis Rowe
March 17, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
I don’t know why you think Planera Progect is scam - I work with them already 14 months and I have never had any problems with them. Anybody can prove me that it’s scam?
And that was no duped cyber-mule
quote:
Ellis Rowe
March 22, 2008 @ 12:28 am
I’m know, there are a lot of different scammers in internet and sometimes it’s very hard to distinguish the truth from lie. But how can you discredit company if you didn’t work with them? First mind is not always right!
Rosa, what proof you want? I was in their main office in Sweden in April, 2007 and had a personal meeting with John Swanchen (president of Planera Project). So, now I’m sure in my work.
Jude, they are people like you and me and they can make mistakes because they are people! And Jude, it seems you don’t know how to use spell check too, may be you are a scammer too?
The address (their "main office") is an anonymous mail forwarding service !!
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This organized crime syndicate is in the midst of a massive sophisticated campaign to recruit cyber-mules. The engine that drives this, is their embedded access to back end financial systems, which provides them with a unending supply of global card data. They are driven to destroy peoples lives in order to convert this data to cash and launder it out of the country. Although the US is the largest market for them, it is not unique to here. We have already shown a pattern of a long term program of the same operation occurring in the UK.
Any individual who has a resume posted online, or is actively reviewing job postings needs to be aware of this campaign.
There are some simple criteria that one should remember, and be vigilant about.
There is no legitimate business opportunity that involves any of the following:
• Registering an LLC or DBA in your name on behalf of a foreign business. The answer is always NO. One should not even consider doing this for a business opportunity where you meet the company face to face, never mind being recruited to do it over the internet, where your only communication is via email, or a few Skype calls.
• Never apply for a merchant and/or business bank account in your name on behalf of any foreign business, or domestic one for that matter. Ditto for an Employer Tax id number from the IRS.
• The above are red flags that you are becoming involved with international organized fraud. Those ingredients are synonymous with criminal conspiracy and fraud.
Bear in mind that these criminals are the lowest form of sub human species. In order to convert this hijacked financial data into cash, they are prepared to destroy your life in the process. First let's look at the financial liability. In most cases when you open a commercial and merchant billing account for a new business under an LLC, the bank will require you to sign a personal guarantee of liability. Every single card transaction that the criminals run through the account is fraudulent. The criminals will run up to $35,000 to $40,000 per month of fraudulent charges through the account. When the fraud finally collapses, you as intended will be the fall guy, both financially and criminally. The bank / merchant processor will come after you for ALL the loses. Conceivably when you add in the charge back fees etc, that could make the total twice the original billing amount. I have heard horror stories from past cyber-mules that were shut down, some were done early.
A 74 year old retired man in California, originally looking for part time work to supplement his Social Security. Now, almost 9 months afterwards, any personal assets that he had at the bank have been seized. He is being hounded legally for well over $100,000 above and beyond the seizures. For the first time in his life, at his age, he is filing bankruptcy. It is difficult to have a conversation with him. Who knows what the IRS may want from him also. That is only half the problem a potential cyber-mule may face. If there is even a hint of knowledge of the fraud, or reasonable grounds to believe that there should have been, then you can face very serious criminal felony charges as well. Even if there is not reasonable grounds, you can still face criminal charges, just look at the earlier posting on the Detroit case, that was from this same syndicate's operation.
There is no need to try and establish if an employment offer that involves any kind of LLC or DBA/FBN formation and merchant bank account is legitimate. The answer is easy, there are no legitimate circumstances, the answer is always NO. Do not try to analyze the offer, that means you're considering it, ...you have already gone too far.
I will ask mae_aa419  and the folks at »aa419.org to lists these fraud recruiting sites in their distributed data base, and to try and close these down, in an effort to inhibit the mule recruiting. There needs to be ample alert notices of this fraud recruiting campaign posted on both Monster.com, Careerbuilders.com and many of the regional jobsites.
No doubt the inventory of prepared sites are so that the criminals can quickly roll them into action as soon as negative publicity flags an active one. They will quickly replace all of these as well.
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