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| [Credit Card Fraud] Unauthorized Charge for $39.71 from the UK I used CCBill to join a UK site and 3 weeks later discovered a $39.71 charge by lafincs.com in the UK. This wasn't a recurring subscription, some prechecked box I missed when I subscribed to the CCBill site, or post sale shenanigans.
CCBill dismissed my security concerns, claimed their site is safe, that they don't share my credit card information, and I must have spyware. Yet I can't ignore the coincidence since this was the first time I had joined a site in the UK and only 2nd fraudulent charge in 12 years online (that one was from Gibraltar in 03)
lafincs.com looks like a fake credit card processing site with links to cancel membership or retreive membership information and a plea to call them before doing a chargeback. In their words:
"If your credit card statement directed you to visit this web site, then your credit card was used to purchase a subscription to a membership based web site. The "descriptor" or "merchant name" on your credit card statement is not the same as the name of the web site that you joined. The best way to identify exactly what membership the charge on your statement was for is to call us and speak with a representative.
Chargebacks & Cancels
If you have made it to this website, then you should have no reason to chargeback a transaction. We are here to assist you, whether you have decided you are unhappy with the product or have concerns over charges.
If you feel that you no longer wish to remain a member, have concerns about charges, or any other inquiry, please don’t hesitate to either write an email or pick up the phone now and get the service you deserve. Charging back a transaction takes time, and our service is available to you at no charge, no hassle, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
If you do choose to chargeback any transaction, please understand that it is our policy to prohibit those who do from ever joining any of site we own or operate in the future.
Understand your options, call now for immediate assistance."
I called Bank of America and tried to stop the pending charge, told it was impossible, and they closed and reissued the card. I was shuffled between the dispute and fraud departments and soon got a brief letter from the fraud department that they would take no action and I was responsible for the charge. Yet when I talked to a customer rep this morning he said the charge is being disputed.
I also filled out a detailed FBI complaint, including what I could google up: Lafin Enterprises Ltd - 2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill Consett County Durham DH8 0LF UK. They own over 100 domains that all sound like fake credit card processors and bizarre adult sites owned by Michelle Brown.
Consumer boards are flooded with complaints about similar charges from sites like mrslnet.com, memltdvent.com, muhpop.com and variations on billingservices with lots of misspellings embedded in the names like "casssh". Many lead back to Durham County, UK with different names and addresses.
To satisfy B.O.A. I called the lafincs number and couldn't get past the first requirement on the menu: my credit card # and expiration date. Yeah right. I wonder what will happen when BOA's dispute department finds a fake site and fake bank and no one to dispute this with? I'm dumbfounded they accepted the charge in the first place.
I've been following other threads here about unauthorized charges and links to organized crime rings, learning more in one evening about how these scams work than with years of googling. 800notes is a great reference site too since the phony charge is linked to a phone number.
I alerted a few consumer sites about lafincs.com and responses were often spam. I think cardratings.com has finally just given up the ghost due to constant spam attacks. Looks like the mob is seeding message consumer-complaint boards and even creating fake complaint sites pretending to help victims.
I have above average system security and use only a handful of trusted merchants and credit card processors. CCBill is now off the list. Once the dust settles on the dispute, I may part ways with Bank of America too. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: [Credit Card Fraud] Unauthorized Charge for $39.71 from the said by Quibble28: some prechecked box I missed when I subscribed to the CCBill site, or post sale shenanigans. this simple statement is why BoA fraud dept stated you were liable. It's not fraud if it's in the fine print.
no banks will be able to stop a charge that is in a pending status so dont hate BoA for that.
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I ALSO HAVE JUST HAD 39.71 TAKEN FROM MY CC ACCOUNT UNAUTOURISED FROMLAFINCS CONSENT AND HAVE NO IDEA WHY OR WHO THEY ARE,AS I HAVE NOT GIVEN OUT MY DETAILS TO THEM. | |
| reply to Quibble28
they got me too | |
| reply to Quibble28
hello, i was wondering is it bad to go to that lafincs.com site to cancel the membership? since its sketchy stuff and all. | |
MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
kudos:9 | said by pablo martin :
hello, i was wondering is it bad to go to that lafincs.com site to cancel the membership? since its sketchy stuff and all.
Well it is bad in the sense that if you were charged for something that you never signed up for, then, in my opinion, you should not "Cancel" it. Canceling infers that you agreed in the first place. The correct procedure is to report the charge as fraudulent to the bank that issued your card, and have them issue a chargeback. That procedure also serves an additional purpose of helping to raise the CB ratio so that the merchant account is frozen, as it should be. LAFINCS.COM wants you to utilize their system to cancel so as to keep their chargeback ratio low and remain under the radar. The correct rule of thumb is that if you did not sign up in the first place, then do not cancel through them. Address the fraud issue with your bank instead.
The entire LAFINCS.COM operation is highly suspect. There are multiple complaints from fraud charged victims coming in from around the globe. Fraud charge reports from the UK and other EU countries, also the US, and Australia, as well as others.
Clearly there is a rampant card fraud operation in process not just at LAFINCS.COM, but also at several other groups of similar setups, all showing as UK Limited companies at various UK addresses. Each group is made up of over a dozen recently registered Porn domains surrounded by a billing / membership domain. The entire configuration is highly suspicious. The related domains rank at almost zero traffic, show no backlinks, nor advertising, yet have numerous complaints of fraud billing coming from around the globe.
An initial forensic investigation shows that the UK company names are shells, and appear designed to project a presence in a country where they are not located. I can peel back enough layers that eventually lead to a Company based in Canada. I will make a follow post up listing the details and names behind that trail.
Initially I considered that there may be a rogue affiliate who was dumping stolen card data into Porn memberships in order to earn the referral proceeds. The card data could also have came from a previous legit sign up where the webmaster wants to leverage their earnings by cross rolling the data into other entities. However, due to the extent of the reported fraud, and how long it has gone on for I consider any and all of the related companies involved as suspect. This is so prevalent and long running that it probably eliminates rogue affiliates, as they would be quickly noted from chargebacks and removed. Everyone involved in the processing of these charges clearly knows from the complaint volume exactly what is going on. That combined with the hiding and cloaking and complex obfuscated configuration reeks of an intentional criminal set up.
MGD | | |
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MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
kudos:9
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said by Quibble28:I used CCBill to join a UK site and 3 weeks later discovered a $39.71 charge by lafincs.com in the UK. This wasn't a recurring subscription, some prechecked box I missed when I subscribed to the CCBill site, or post sale shenanigans. CCBill dismissed my security concerns, claimed their site is safe, that they don't share my credit card information, and I must have spyware. Yet I can't ignore the coincidence ....... Their site may well be safe, and they may not knowingly share card data, however, the financial information processing highway is littered with the carcases of business entities who also proclaimed that their systems were 100% safe and secure.
said by Quibble28: .. lafincs.com looks like a fake credit card processing site with links to cancel membership or retreive membership information and a plea to call them before doing a chargeback. In their words: ......... Indeed, it is as if they knew up front what to expect, anticipated, and the primary and sole purpose is to mitigate chargebacks.
said by Quibble28:.. I called Bank of America and tried to stop the pending charge, told it was impossible, .... That is correct, there is no way for the recipient bank to intervene and prevent a pending charge from completing. The charge can only be addressed once it has completed the processing.
said by Quibble28: ... I was shuffled between the dispute and fraud departments and soon got a brief letter from the fraud department that they would take no action and I was responsible for the charge. Yet when I talked to a customer rep this morning he said the charge is being disputed.... It sounds like even though the BOA canceled and replaced your card, they are filing a dispute notice with the merchant over the charge. If they processed it as fraudulent you would have received an affidavit in the mail to sign. Assuming it was a credit card, do not allow more than 50 or so days from the date that the statement was mailed to you containing the charge to go by without a resolution in your favor. Allow enough time for a dispute notice, from you, in writing, to arrive at the address listed for such purposes on the back of the statement, to be sent certified and arrive no later than 60 days from the date the original statement was mailed to you. Doing so will preserve your dispute rights under US federal law, and require the bank to follow specific credit card regulations to resolve such disputes.
Besides disputing the charge, the notice should also include information that the billing entity is suspicious, possibly fraudulent, and its domain registration is privacy cloaked. Furthermore, the listed address for the UK company is a mailing service, and that there are a disproportionate number of consumer fraud billing complaints from other victims around the globe, far in excess of any measurable internet traffic to the relevant websites.
said by Quibble28: .... I wonder what will happen when BOA's dispute department finds a fake site and fake bank and no one to dispute this with? A failure by the billing merchant to respond timely to a dispute notice will yield a ruling in your favor and the amount will be charged back along with processing fees to the merchant account at the acquiring bank.
said by Quibble28:.... I'm dumbfounded they accepted the charge in the first place. ...... By design, there is no mechanism in the processing system which enables the bank to prevent a pending charge from posting. In fact, there is no global method to prevent charges from a specific merchant account from posting. Each institution can and does flag charges either through fraud algorithms, or by flagging specific merchants once they arrive.
With respect to the massive Devbill card fraud laundering operation, some victims first notice the charge because their bank has frozen their card based on the charge just posting, and then notified the account holder. In such instances the specific institution has pre flagged the merchant account name in their system from a known list. An incoming charge auto flags the card as compromised, locks it, and the holder is notified. However, that process is up to each card issuing institution to implement individually. There is no global mechanism, unfortunately.
said by Quibble28: ..... I have above average system security and use only a handful of trusted merchants and credit card processors. CCBill is now off the list. Once the dust settles on the dispute, I may part ways with Bank of America too. I would concur with that, however, you may want to postpone a BOA decision, pending the outcome of the dispute. However, make sure to leave yourself ample time to formally dispute the credit card charge in writing and certified mail within the 60 day parameter.
Also, Please post the first 7 digits of the transaction ARN (Acquirer Reference NUmber) number. The 21 digit ARN should appear next to your charge on your credit card statement. Those digits may enable the Banking institution where the merchant account is located to be identified. The ARN digits do not contain any data that identity you or your card number. Though the entire number is an unique transaction identifier, the first 7 digits will be sufficient to identify the institution and acquirer bank where the proceeds are going and where the merchant account was opened at. I am curious, because you made no mention of foreign transaction or currency exchange fees. One might then presume that the the acquirer bank is in North America and not the UK. It would be interesting for tracking purposes to know that answer.
MGD | |
| MGD,
Thanks for your in-depth, and thoughtful response. You've helped immensely.
The first 7 digits of the reference # are: 2490763 (I hope this is the ARN #).
There was a foreign transaction fee of $1.19.
BTW, Bank of America sent me the dispute form dated August 4th. I received it on the 12th, opened it on the 13th and discovered hidden in the form itself a clause that I agreed to an August 13th deadline or I would be held responsible for all charges.
I called BOA's customer rep # and after a long wait someone from the dispute department answered. I told them I couldn't return the dispute form by the August 13th deadline since I had just received the letter, he suggested I fax it or just ignore the date since they wouldn't even get to my dispute until September.
I faxed the dispute form (cost me $2.10), made a couple copies, and now have more doubts about Bank of America than ever. Why did I receive a dispute letter dated on the 4th, on the 12th? (I got everything else from them in 2-3 days) And why within the form itself is an arbitrary deadline clause, what's magical about August 13th?
Also within the dispute form is another clause that states any alteration to the form would invalidate it. In other words, I couldn't delete the deadline date before I signed it.
I'm afraid I will part ways with Bank of America after this is over. I simply don't trust them and don't want to be on the hook for even bigger fraudulent transactions since they seem to automatically side with the "merchant" (thieves in this case) and put the customer through hoops.
I've already read "The Trial" by Kafka - I don't need to live it.
MGD, thanks again for all the banking information. Just understanding how it works gives me some peace of mind. | |
| reply to Quibble28
I've been debited by LAFINCS as well, for a similar amount, with a foreign transaction attached to it. I called my bank to tell me what the charge was for and they said it was an adult site based in the UK. I've only been hit once but does anyone know if it is a recurring charge? I've cancelled my credit card and CCBILL.com has made it onto my "shitlist", as I HAVE used them for an adult site.
Many thanks MGD for your insights. It is highly unsatisfactory that my credit card details have been given to some third party. I'll be reporting the incident to my bank as a fradulent transaction...because it was. I doubt wheteher I'll see the money again but the priority is to protect myself from further unauthorised transactions. | |
MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
kudos:9 | said by Scamed :
I've been debited by LAFINCS as well, for a similar amount, with a foreign transaction attached to it. I called my bank to tell me what the charge was for and they said it was an adult site based in the UK. I've only been hit once but does anyone know if it is a recurring charge? I've cancelled my credit card and CCBILL.com has made it onto my "shitlist", as I HAVE used them for an adult site.
Many thanks MGD for your insights. .....
You are welcome, I am betting that this is a recurring monthly charge. Based on my investigation there is substantial evidence that the "Porn" set up is bogus, a front. The amount of consumer complaints from around the globe of fraudulent charges by LAFINCS far exceeds the measurable or detected traffic to the websites.
Read my next post for additional details on what appears to be hundreds of UK Limited companies all set up listing UK residential addresses where no one related to the companies resides.
Victims should INSIST that their issuing banks process a chargeback. To do anything otherwise is to support what I believe to be a criminal organization.
Also, I know there are numerous search hits from around the globe on LAFINCS coming to this thread. Please post if you have received a fraud charge, so I can get some idea of the extent of this criminal fraud. You do not have to join to post a message here. (one of the few places left)
MGD | |
MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
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You are welcome Quibble28  .
said by Quibble28:MGD, The first 7 digits of the reference # are: 2490763 (I hope this is the ARN #). There was a foreign transaction fee of $1.19. ..... If that is the ARN number, then it indicates that the acquirer is a German entity:
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Bank: B + S CARD SERVICE SUD GMBH
ISO Country Name: GERMANY
ISO Country A2 Code: DE
ISO Country A3 Code: DEU
ISO Country Number: 276
Additonal country information: GERMANY
Phone: 49-69-66571788
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»www.bs-card-service.com/en/compa···ory.html
For numerous reasons I am not to thrilled about the level of documentation available on this company:
quote:
The history of B+S Card Service GmbH
1987
Banco de Santander S.A, Madrid, purchases Bank of America's German Visa operations. Establishment of a separate business unit in Frankfurt/Main.
1989
Foundation of B+S Visa Card Service GmbH.
1993
Change of name to B+S Card Service GmbH.
1999
Licence for acquisition of Eurocard/MasterCard.
2000
Licence for acquisition of JCB.
2003
B+S acquires licence for processing of Maestro transactions.
2005
Licence for acquisition of CUP (China Union Pay). Merger with sister company Anthros GmbH & Co. KG under the name B+S Card Service GmbH.
2006
Volume of payment transactions increases to € 30 billion.
2007
More than 30% increase in the E-Commerce sector.
2008
B+S offers payment solutions in eleven European countries.
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Regardless of that date I would return the completed dispute. You have 60 days to dispute a credit card charge as required by federal law, and I do not believe that a bank or any document can cause you to waive those rights. The only 10 day period that I am aware of is after the bank investigates and does not rule in your favor, then you have 10 days to file an appeal. That occurs after they have responded with an investigation on the original complaint.
What impressed me about your original post is that you had done your homework. I was sure form your concise presentation that you had not accidentally agreed to some hidden terms of extra billing. Your statement about your PC, and the fact that you know you way around the net, and had a considerable fraud free history, were all indicative of someone who was not a conned participant. Therefore the conclusion pointed to outright card fraud, and it appears that there are considerable number of people reporting the same fraud charging. Then of course the bigger question becomes how did it happen and how does it operate.
The entire set up, is highly suspicious, and fails several initial "smell tests". Every layer I peel back flushes out even more interesting connections, and it reeks of a deliberate and sophisticated fraud set up. There are clear attempts to hide, cover tracks, and to project themselves as a business operation being located where they are not physically present.
LAFINCS.COM. are portraying themselves as being a billing entity for Adult websites, some of which are hosted on the same IP. There are a significant number of fraud charging complaints from victims all around the globe. Neither LAFINCS.COM nor the adult sites hosted on the same IP have measurable traffic stats. The sites they are billing for, are all relatively new, have little or no promotion, and even less recorded traffic. Perhaps, a "from the ground up designed fraud" that looked good on paper. There are significantly more fraud charging complaints than there is even traffic to the domains.
This is as fresh as they come, minted a few months ago in April:
ICANN Registrar:
DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.
D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Domain Name: LAFINCS.COM
Registrant:
Lafin Enterprises Ltd
Michelle Brown (legal@lafinenterprisesltd.net)
2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill
Consett
Durham,DH8 0LF
GB
Tel. +44.2087113595
Fax. +44.2087113595
Creation Date: 27-Apr-2010
Expiration Date: 27-Apr-2011
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.lafincs.com
ns1.lafincs.com
Lafin Enterprises Ltd owns about 96 other domains.
lafincs.com = Lafin Enterprises Ltd
abcsupport2.com = Lafin Enterprises Ltd
cn860.net = Lafin Enterprises Ltd
casssh.net = Lafin Enterprises Ltd
No longer visible in any of the current domain registrations of the sites on that hosting IP:
IP Address: 70.86.6.100
IP Location: - Texas - Dallas - Theplanet.com Internet Services Inc
but contained in the original filing documets is this jewel:
Registration Service Provided By: IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
A little digging leads to:
quote:
For more information, please contact us at: Sales@iMerchantIntl.com.
iMerchant International Ltd
40 Trevor Terrace, North Shields
Tyne and Wear, NE30 2DE
United Kingdom
www.iMerchantIntl.com
Phone: +1(888)389-0306
»imerchantintl.com/contact.php
»imerchantintl.com/paymaster.php
Due to our long established banking relationships, we are able to provide our clients with a full Paymaster Service second to none. iMerchant easily handles incoming commissions and disburses the funds accordingly through our paymaster services. If you are a business looking to decrease accounting costs and simplify bookkeeping and administrative procedures you can use iMerchants Paymaster Services to send funds to vendors, affiliates and customers.
If you are running an affiliate program, you need to pay your affiliates on a regular basis. Let iMerchant help you send payments instantly for less than the cost or writing a check or paying traditional bank wire fees. iMerchant is able to offer merchants discounts that cannot be found anywhere.
To obtain an iMerchant Account, please contact us at Sales@iMerchantIntl.com
There is nobody at this residential address in the UK who is in any way connected to:
iMerchant International Ltd
40 Trevor Terrace, North Shields
Tyne and Wear, NE30 2DE
So we are still in the UK?, let's check:
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.
D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Domain Name: IMERCHANTINTL.COM
Registrar: MONIKER
Registrant [1936719]:
Moniker Privacy Services IMERCHANTINTL.COM@domainservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Ahhh that pesky domain cloaking ...............
.... Let's go back in history:
Domain Name: IMERCHANTINTL.COM
Registrant:
iMerchant International Ltd
iMerchant International Ltd
(legal@imerchantinternationalinc.com)
107 Atlantic Ave
Toronto
Ontario,M6K 1Y2
CANADA
Tel. +01.4165345000
Creation Date: 18-Jun-2009
Expiration Date: 18-Jun-2011
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.imerchantintl.com
ns2.imerchantintl.com
The above number 416-534-5000:
quote:
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On Thursday, February 11, 1999, a U.S. federal trademark registration
was filed for PYTHONMEDIA.COM. This trademark is owned by:
Python Communications, Inc.,
87 Mowat Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario , M6K3E3
Word Mark: PYTHONMEDIA.COM
Status/
Status Date: CANCELLED - SECTION 8
10/24/2008
Serial Number: 75638613
Filing Date: 2/11/1999
Registration Number: 2531127
Registration Date: 1/22/2002
Goods and Services: PROVIDING ON-LINE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
BY MEANS OF A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK, LOCAL COMPUTER NETWORKS
AND VIA A WORLD WIDE WEB
Mark Description: NOT AVAILABLE
Type Of Mark: Service Mark
Published For Opposition Date: 10/30/2001
Latest Owner: Python Communications, Inc.
87 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario , M6K3E3
There are a whole herd of numerous like domains and associated UK Limited companies (in the several hundreds!!). What they all have in common are: scattered UK residential addresses, which are not where the businesses are located. Most have female names listed on both the domains and the UK company filings. Many are adult sites and have contact emails all starting with "legal@". The associated UK Limited companies go through a routine series of address changes, director names, etc. Some of the domains do as well as.
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Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: LAFINENTERPRISESLTD.NET
Registrant:
Lafin Enterprises Ltd
Michelle Brown (legal@lafinenterprisesltd.net)
2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill
Consett
Durham,DH8 0LF
GB
Tel. +44.2087113595
Fax. +44.2087113595
Creation Date: 16-Dec-2009
Expiration Date: 16-Dec-2010
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.lafinenterprisesltd.net
ns1.lafinenterprisesltd.net
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: ZAPATAINVESTMENTSLTD.NET
Registrant:
Zapata Investments Ltd
Denise Louise Heaviside (legal@zapatainvestmentsltd.net)
17 Green Street
Consett
Durham,DH8 5LP
GB
Tel. +44.2077859055
Fax. +44.2077859055
Creation Date: 20-Dec-2009
Expiration Date: 20-Dec-2010
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.zapatainvestmentsltd.net
ns1.zapatainvestmentsltd.net
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: NPTSHOPPER.COM
Registrant:
Lafin Enterprises Ltd
Michelle Brown (legal@lafinenterprisesltd.net)
2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill
Consett
Durham,DH8 0LF
GB
Tel. +44.2087113595
Fax. +44.2087113595
Creation Date: 04-Mar-2010
Expiration Date: 04-Mar-2011
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.nptshopper.com
ns1.nptshopper.com
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: ABCSUPPORT2.COM
Registrant:
Lafin Enterprises Ltd
Michelle Brown (legal@lafinenterprisesltd.net)
2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill
Consett
Durham,DH8 0LF
GB
Tel. +44.2087113595
Fax. +44.2087113595
Creation Date: 22-Feb-2010
Expiration Date: 22-Feb-2011
Example of some of the above changes:
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: ABCSUPPORT2.COM
Registrant:
Homan Enterprise Ltd
Gail Hope (legal@homanenterpriseltd.net)
13 Plantation Street, Leadgate
Consett
Durham,DH8 7PP
GB
Tel. +44.2086269046
Fax. +44.2086269046
Creation Date: 22-Feb-2010
Expiration Date: 22-Feb-2011
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: DEWEYSYSTEMS.NET
Registrant:
Dewey Systems
Karen Scott (legal@deweysystems.net)
71 Newburn Road, Shield Row
Stanley
Durham,DH9 0EX
GB
Tel. +44.2078060727
Fax. +44.2078060727
Creation Date: 20-Dec-2009
Expiration Date: 20-Dec-2010
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.deweysystems.net
ns1.deweysystems.net
Finally a male name:
Registration Service Provided By:
IMERCHANT INTERNATIONAL INC
Contact: +01.4165345000
Domain Name: SALTILLOLTD.NET
Registrant:
Saltillo Ltd
Thomas Harrison (legal@saltilloltd.net)
44 Lambton Avenue, Delves Lane
Consett
Durham,DH8 7JE
GB
Tel. +44.2077859031
Fax. +44.2077859031
Creation Date: 18-Dec-2009
Expiration Date: 18-Dec-2010
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.saltilloltd.net
ns1.saltilloltd.net
"Saltillo Ltd" owns about 24 other domains
==============================
The above is just a sample, there appears to be hundreds of related and associated UK Limited companies registered to residential addresses, possible fraudulent registrations in violation of UK Company House Regulations.
There are mutiple pathways and leads in these connections. Lets go back to that original address residential address for LAFINCS.COM aka Lafin Enterprises Ltd
Michelle Brown
2 ASHBY CRESCENT
BLACKHILL
CONSETT
CO.DURHAM
UNITED KINGDOM
DH8 0LF
A check of document activity on that UK residential address, where none of these entities are actually located:
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ROCKOLAKE SOLUTIONS LTD
2 ASHBY CRESCENT
BLACKHILL
CONSETT
CO.DURHAM
UNITED KINGDOM
DH8 0LF
Companies House Number:
07047751
Incorporation Date:
17 Oct 2009
Financial Year End
30-06
People connected with the Company
FERMOYA LTD
Appointment terminated as secretary on 19 Oct 2009
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LB TJ WEB PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
Company number: 05995153
Address: 94 New Bond Street, London, W1s 1sj
Registered Number: 05994189 -
Registered at Companies House on 09/11/2006
Type of business: Unknown
Address: 2 ASHBY CRESCENT
BLACKHILL
CONSETT
CO.DURHAM
DH8 0LF
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Catchy Cash Ltd.
85 Durham Road
Blackhill
Consett
County Durham
DH8 8RR
Companies House
Registration Number: 7006949
Related or Similar Companies:
Fourstrike Ltd. DH8 6FF
Lafin Enterprises Ltd. DH8 0LF
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Then start cross checking people, names, and companies, which appeared on any of the document filings, and that will lead to another web of hundreds of other entities:
PLATEON LTD
20 SANDRINGHAM COURT
CHESTER LE STREET
COUNTY DURHAM
UNITED KINGDOM
Companies House Number: 07052462
Incorporation Date: 21 Oct 2009
View other documents available on this company
Financial Year End 30-06
People connected with the Company
JACK THOMPSON
Appointment terminated as director on 18 Jan 2010
MISS SAMANTHA JOSEPHINE MCELRUE
Appointed as director on 18 Jan 2010
FERMOYA LTD
Appointment terminated as secretary on 21 Oct 2009
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ONLINE HERBALS LIMITED
11 ASH GROVE
CONSETT
COUNTY DURHAM
UNITED KINGDOM
DH8 6EB
Companies House Details
Companies House Number:07047230
Incorporation Date: 16 Oct 2009
View other documents available on this company
Financial Year End 31-10
People connected with the Company
MISS SAMANTHA JOSEPHINE MCELRUE
Particulars Changed as director on 19 Jan 2010
NORTHERN ASSURANCE INC
Appointment terminated as director on 21 Oct 2009
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HANAN INVESTMENTS LTD
Active Private Limited Company
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Date of Incorporation: 24 October 2008
Company Number: 06732265
Registered Office: 8 Molyfair Close,
Kepier Chair Crawcrook,
Ryton, Tyne and Wear, NE40 4UZ
Accounts:
Accounting Reference Date: 31 October
Category: No Accounts Filed
Next due date: 24 July 2010
Annual Return Last made up date: 24 October 2009
Next due date: 21 November 2010
Additional Information SIC: 7487 -
Other business activities
Last full members dated: 24 October 2009
LIST OF DOCUMENTS
7 May 2010 1 January 2010 Statement of Capital GBP
1 May 2010 Strike off action has been discontinued
30 April 2010 Annual Return: 24 October 2009 Full List
30 April 2010 Appointment Terminated, Director Fermoya Ltd
30 April 2010 Corporate Secretarys:
Change of Particulars - Bournewood Ltd - 24 October 2009
2 March 2010 First Gazette Published
24 October 2008 Incorporation Documents
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Layers upon Layers of inter connections and obsfucations, a herculean forensic task to unwind the layers of this mountain of data:
Another example, the above address of
HANAN INVESTMENTS LTD
8 Molyfair Close Kepier Chair, Crawcrook.
Also hits for:
LB JUGGCASH LIMITED
LB BELVEDERE LTD.
So let's take one common name that repeatedly shows up in a wide range of related documents FERMOYA LTD and pursue that angle and related connections further. Fermoya Ltd which shows up on many of the documents and Bournewood Ltd which shows up alongside it on HANAN INVESTMENTS LTD both as fleeting short term directors. Fermoya Ltd and Bournewood Ltd are both shell companies registered in the notorious haven of Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.
FERMOYA LTD
said by complaintsboard.com :
Deepak Agarwal
I am an ex Local Billing employee, the owners of www.acaiberryexclusive.com, www.acaiberry-lifecleanse.com, www.absoluteacaiberry.com and another sites with these fake diet products (colon cleanser, acai berry, resveratrol). They are operating using various companies: Viv3Labs for Europe, FMW Laboratories for US And, lately, to avoid the problems caused by the scam using Viv3Labs, they are using Trading Planet Ltd for Europe and Information Tech Systems LTd for US.
The business model is to offer a FREE SAMPLE, only charging you the postage (this is an excuse to get your credit card number) and, then, due to HIDDEN Terms and Conditions, charge people incredible amounts of money for pills, which in any retail place cost less than 6 US$ per bottle.
The owners of those sites are Deepak Argwal [Edit=corrected to Deepak Agarwal](>http://www.ccap.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:deepak-agarwal&catid=76:hot-topic, apart from this business –contactcenter, legal-, he is running more than 2.000 Porn Sites –see DeeCash.com-), Clay Douglass (»www.linkedin.com/in/claydouglass) and Mitch Platt (»www.linkedin.com/pub/mitch-platt/4/271/878) and their plan is to scam as much possible and, then, go for another product and do the same (SCAM).
It is easy to contact them through the information who appears on the site registration of www.acaiberryexclusive.com. Now, they discovered this hole on their ability to remain hidden and are registering the new sites using a Marketing company located in the US:
ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM - Whois Information
Registrant:
Douglass, Clay clay.douglass@viveraglobal.com
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
Domain name: ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
viveraglobal, Hostmaster hostmaster@viveraglobal.com
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
+44.08082389891
Another evidence that Local Billing is behind those companies is consulting the impressun of the web pages (for example www.absoluteacaiberry.com, »www.absoluteacaiberry.com/fronte···caiBerry) and seeing that is a Local Billing company behind them:
Impressum:
LB Pegasus Limited
29 Wordsworth Gardens
Dipton
Stanley
Co Durham
DH9 9LG
United Kingdom
+48 222 120 179
LB states for Local Billing….
And also resveratrol product site, www.winedetox.com, the impressum of the page (>http://www.winedetox.com/frontend/join/impressum/site/4347#utm_source=cx-es&utm_medium=31922&utm_term=resveratrol&utm_content=ResVmax) is the following:
Impressum:
Trading Planet LTd.
56 Thorton Close
Pelton
Chester Le Street
Co Durham
DH2 1QH
United Kingdom
Hosting for Local Billing and for the pills sites is held in the Netherlands, in a company called RedBee.
Also, they are using a company called Phytoscience, located in the same address than viv3, to make the handling and the postal distribution of the products. The manager of Phytoscience is called Chris Swanson and his email is chris@phytoscience.co.uk.
Other addresses of these scammers:
Local Billing Ltd, Pau Claris, 100, 08009 Barcelona, Spain (they are operating from here, it is an useful contact for the police)
clay.douglass@localbillinglimited.com
mitch.platt@localbillinglimited.com
claydouglass@gmail.com
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300 days ago by i_got_burnt_and_want_money_back
Another set of details - who are these people and what are their connections with all of this? BTW this is public information... available to anyone for a quid at
Companies House
Another set of details
Name & Registered Office:
LB ERIDANUS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
9 UNITY TERRACE
TANTOBIE
STANLEY
CO DURHAM
DH9 9TD
Company No. 06012371
You can get this information from Companies House and the details are as follows
Director 1
Kirsty Willis
9 Unity Terrace
Tantobie
Stanley
Co durham
DH9 9TD
DOB 28/10/1985
Company Secretary
Bournewood Limited
Palm Grove House PO BOX 438
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands
BMIE
Mark Colin John Quirk - Trust Manager
22 Roxwell Avenue
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 2NR
DOB 1/11/1977
1 share held by Fermoya Ltd
1 share held by BMIE Ltd
BMIE is registered at
De Burgh House 2nd Floor
Market Road
Wickford
Essex
UK
SS12 0BB
1 Share owned by Fermoya Ltd
1 Share owned by Lenia Management Limited
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300 days ago by i_got_burnt_and_want_money_back
Looks like this maybe a scam as well >http://www.haveperfectskin.com/#utm_source=none&utm_medium=none&utm_term=none&utm_content=Perfect+Skin
HavePerfectSkin - owned by LB ERIDANUS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Yip- check the small print, it has the same wording, different company.
Name & Registered Office:
LB CYBERNET ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
19 PRINCESS AVENUE, BLACKHILL
CONSETT
DURHAM
DH8 OLG
Company No. 06038131
Company Number: 06038131 Date of Incorporation:29/12/2006
Company Name: LB CYBERNET ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Registered Office: 19 PRINCESS AVENUE, BLACKHILL, DURHAM, DH8 OLG
SECRETARY: BOURNEWOOD LIMITED
Appointed: 29/12/2006
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 327
Address: PALM GROVE HOUSE
PO BOX 438
ROAD TOWN
TORTOLA
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
DIRECTOR: PARKIN, STUART MR
Appointed: 29/12/2006
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 5
Address: 19 PRINCESS AVENUE
BLACKHILL
CONSETT
DURHAM
DH8 0LG
Ref: »www.complaintsboard.com/complain···295.html
quote:
Deepak Agarwal (deecash.com)
depak has around 8000 registered companies out of Nevada. nice scam
all calls from "Premier asia" in phillipines
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April 23, 2009 12:19 PM
Anonymous said...
These people aslo have several scam credit sites like "First Plus Platinum" and "First World Platinum". They all lie and take advantage of people. There is nothing we can do. Vantex Media Group has been scamming people for years. Eventually it will all catch up to them and the FTC will do something. The FTC is just waiting for their pockets to get fat so they can come in and take it.
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July 17, 2009 2:34 PM
Anonymous said...
depak also runs porno sites and has been buying up porn companies left and right. he runs the same scams on his porn sites, bangs cards, doesn't let members cancel, signs you up at multiple sites without consumer knowledge and consent. it is also rumoured he just bought a billing company called localbilling. Watch out! I wouldn't want to be a member or merchant of any billing company associated with this scammer / scum bag!
November 30, 2009 9:49 PM
Ref: »blacklist.freegrantkitscams.com/···com.html
quote:
Groups > Scammed by Thrive > thrive scams
thrive scams
Posted: 2010-01-10 by US Slueth
this company is owned by local billing limited. Basically its not a real company. the owners are Clay Douglass, mitch Platt and Deepak Agarwal. They have been creating a huge web of fraud and theft for many years and covering their tracks under aliases, fake companies and real companies. you just gave away you money info and they will charge you using many different company names unless you close your account. Before trusting a website check out who owns the site at whois.net. Anything registered by Moniker Online Services is definitely a scam.
Ref: »www.complaintsboard.com/panel.ph···&id=1580
»www.linkedin.com/pub/mitch-platt/4/271/878
quote:
I have been scammed by this company, I ordered a free sample of both Acai Berry and Life Cleanse in October 09, I received this order within 1 week, when I ordered I used a bank account in my name only, when I put the credit card details in it told me that the transaction could not go through as there was a problem with my card, so I used another card for a different account, the transaction was accepted. Today I went to my bank account to check the balance, this account is not used for anything my wages go in fortnightly and I leave it there until we buy something big, so I dont check this account regularly, and I found over $600 missing, there were about 6 different company names withdrawing random amounts from my account. THen I checked my other account, (the one that was refused as there was a problem with my card) and big surprise they had withdrawn from that account also, overall I have lost over $800 in one month, my friend also used her credit card and has lost $1500, she is a pensioner with an invalid husband. These people should be thrown in jail and the keys melted down so they never get out. It is disgusting how they prey on vulnaruble overweight people who would try anything to reduce their weight.
»www.complaintsboard.com/complain···295.html
said by complaintsboard.com :
Local Billing Limited Complaints - theft and fraud
Local Billing Limited
Posted: 2010-01-10 by US Slueth
theft and fraud
Complaint Rating:
Company information:
Tucano Corona
Spain
localbillinglimited.com
Here's the deal...all those websites that you all got duped into buying stuff, including porn sites, are attached to this company known as Local Billing Limited but operates under the name of Tucano Corona in Barcelona Spain. The Owners are Clay Douglass and Mitch Platt. They are conspiring with some 20 something Indian hotshot by the name of Deepak Agarwal. This guy runs hundreds of pornsites and an offshoring company. Are you putting it together now? Here's another kicker, all their websites are registered by a company called Moniker Online Services. For all of you that have had money stolen from your account let me explain how it works.
Scenario One: you buy a legitimate product from a real company. They have Local Billing do their billing and then this garbage of a company charges you for whatever under many different company names to make it look like they didn't have anything to do with it. Remember, they have your card or account number and in some cases your SS#. All those credit report websites...scams to get your personal info and pass it off onto the next fake whatever.
Scenario two: you believe there is a secret to getting white teeth or making money online or even need a payday loan. You sign up or purchase something, then the charges come from everywhere. All lead back to Local Billing.
Local Billing owns "call centers". This is a place in another country where all the calls from these supposed toll free numbers come into and you talk to charlie who has a very thick Indian accent. When you call these numbers, you will here a slight pause after the first few rings and then it rings slightly differently. That's the switch of the call being transferred to this overseas call. That's why the sound is awful. Even though the numbers may differ you are still calling to the same place. Not only that, one number might be for different companies that all sold the same thing.
Does any of this make sense? I hope so. I have filed multiple reports with the FBI at their online complaint form giving as many details as I can. I hope that anyone who has unexplained charges to their accounts will file disputes with your bank or credit card company and then file a report with the FBI. The more people that do this, the more likely these morons will be punished
»www.complaintsboard.com/complain···922.html
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2···%22+scam
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2···%22+scam
»www.localbilling.com/
said by askdamagex.com :
I just got an anon email - regarding Deecash and their activities...
[Originally Posted by anon email]
Below is the result of a look into Deedevelopments/Deecash and unauthorized credit card charges. I am not going to make any judgments, just going to let the facts speak for themselves.
Let's start with one from a free sample board. A person only made three purchases on their credit card - a "Super8 contest and i booked a room, and i ordered shoes from 6pm" - and they somehow ended up getting a charge from >http://www.pay-mediumhelp.com.
>http://www.freesamplesite.com/ydf/sh...d.php?t=241037
What is most notable about this thread is the whois info of pay-mediumhelp.com.
Administrative contact:
Technical contact:
Billing contact:
ImageSoft SL
Pedro
ash@deedevelopments.com
CL San Miguel N 30 - 3 L , Palma De Mallorca
Mallorca, Mallorca 2383 ES
Phone: +1.2392148290
Fax:
deedevelopments.com aka Deecash.
Here is another complaint about another mysterious charge from pay-mediumhelp.com related to a Super8 contest.
»www.forums.gottadeal.com/show...···e=linear
I got a charge on my CC for PAY-MEDIUMHELP.COM for $29.97.
I did not make this charge.
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[/Originally Posted by anon email]
»www.askdamagex.com/f2/i-just-got···s-32699/
So you think that is bad so far ? !!
All these shell companies registered to UK residential addresses then flipping directors and secretaries back and forth between FERMOYA LTD and BOURNEWOOD LTD, two shell companies registered in the British Virgin Islands SCAM and FRAUD HAVEN.
Unfortunately that is not even half of it.
A forensic journey of running both of those FERMOYA LTD and BOURNEWOOD LTD names through large databases, yields even more.
Such as this little gem:
BLUETOOL LTD
Registered no: 06929761
Registered office:
34 Rosedale Avenue
Blackhill
Consett
Co.Durham DH8 0DZ
Incorporated: 10 Jun 2009
Directors, Secs, Shareholders, etc:
BOURNEWOOD LTD
FERMOYA LTD
Palm Grove House PO Box 438
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin
Mrs. Gail Hope
34 Rosedale Avenue
Consett
CO.Durham
DH8 0DZ
United Kingdom
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Hmmm... now I am sure we ran across Mrs. Gail Hope somewhere before. Ahhhh yes, indeed we did at another home:
Domain Name: ABCSUPPORT2.COM
Registrant:
Homan Enterprise Ltd
Gail Hope (legal@homanenterpriseltd.net)
13 Plantation Street, Leadgate
Consett
Durham,DH8 7PP
GB
Yes, I am going to bet that Gail Hope is all over the operations of BLUETOOL LTD. That company made news headlines just a few months ago:
German Man Launders $70 Million
Michael Schuett, a German national living in Florida arrested by the US Secret Service on February 18, 2010 for money laundering.
quote:
Feds investigate Naples man in money laundering probe tied to online gambling
Bank employees began getting suspicious when they saw many large checks issued by a Naples man’s company, according to an ongoing federal investigation. When questioned, customers cashing them explained the MCM Capital Management checks were payments from Internet Poker gambling winnings.
When bank tellers and managers saw millions of dollars in wire transfers going in and out of Michael Olaf Schuett’s bank accounts, many shut down accounts for the hundreds of companies he owns after discovering they were linked to gambling, federal documents say. For FedEx employees, it was the roughly 51 packages being mailed daily from his Chesapeake Avenue home that made them question what the 29-year-old was doing there.
“Federal Express employees became suspicious of Schuett’s activity when Schuett began mailing over 150 parcels per week,” says a federal complaint alleging Schuett is involved in money laundering. “FedEx employees opened several of the parcels and determined that each contained a check.”
Those are the allegations outlined in a 39-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Fort Myers, that shows Schuett is the target of a federal investigation.
Schuett, also known as Schütt, a German national whose visa expires in April, is being held without bond in Lee County jail after a federal judge ruled Monday he was a flight risk.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Polster Chappell cited his limited ties to this country, that he’d been married only a month to a woman he’d known for nine months, that he lives in Germany, and has no employment ties here.
“The court further takes into account the amount of money involved in the alleged crime and the number of bank accounts used to conduct the scheme,” Polster Chappell wrote in her ruling, citing 40 accounts opened at Bank of America.
In denying bond, she also pointed out Schuett was planning to purchase a house using illegal funds. “The house was going to be put in only the defendant’s new wife’s name,” she wrote.
Federal investigators seek to seize nine bank accounts Shuett holds under his name and company names: MCM Capital Management Corp.; MI Global Inc.; South Naples Escrow Co.; Southwest Florida Payroll Co.; Woodhouse Systems; Mathew’s Trade Corp; and Internet Payment Services Group Inc.
As of Feb. 12, the complaint says, there was $2.13 million left in accounts at Bank of America, Ironstone, SunTrust, Regions Bank, BB&T, Iberia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada.
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The complaint says Schuett incorporated numerous companies in Naples, Tampa and Bradenton. State incorporation records show that through USAG24, he’s the officer and registered agent for 424 businesses, but he owns others under his name.
However, the state Bureau of Financial Investigations said Schuett has never registered as a money transmitting business, which prevents money laundering. The complaint shows the amount of money involved would be a first-degree felony.
The complaint indicates Schuett became a target after many customers came to banks with large checks issued by MCM Capital Management.
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The investigation shows Schuett had opened about 40 accounts with Bank of America over the past three years and since Nov. 1, 2007, received wire transfers and transferred about $70 million to 23,000 persons, mostly in the United States.
“As a result, numerous banking institutions throughout the state of Florida have closed accounts associated with Schuett,” the complaint says.
In addition to the bank accounts being frozen, he also had accounts with Wachovia, Shamrock, CNL, Fifth Third and Northern Trust Bank of Miami.
The complaint gives this account:
Overseas wire transfers of money went into accounts operated by Schuett, who then obtained large numbers of cashier’s checks, wrote business checks, and sent wire transfers to customers in the United States or Canada. Large amounts of money came from Bluetool Ltd., a British company, and International Payment Systems, a German company.
When one bank official asked Schuett if he was involved in gambling businesses, he denied it.
Between Nov. 24 and Jan. 21, $2 million was transferred in and out of accounts operated by Schuett at Bank of Florida, Bank of Florida Southwest, and Bank of America. Most of it originated from Bluetool Ltd. through a German bank.
Between Aug. 13 and Dec. 1, Bluetool made 28 wire transfers totaling $7.3 million to bank accounts owned by Schuett’s companies.
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»www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/feb···ambling/
quote:
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Shares of Wirecard , a provider of electronic-payment technologies, fell 16% to 6.30 euros a share in afternoon trading on Xetra. They earlier hit an intraday low of 5.07 euros.
Prosecutors in Munich have received a complaint against Wirecard Bank AG citing suspicion of money laundering, a spokesperson for Chief Prosecutor Barbara Stockinger told the Web site GoMoPa.net.
Wirecard Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wirecard, is a web-based financial-services provider for business and individual customers.
Documents provided by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation show that Wirecard Bank transferred $5.7 million last year on behalf of English real-estate firm Bluetool Ltd. to Florida to real-estate agent Michael Olaf Schuett, who was living there at the time, according to GoMoPa.net.
»research.tdameritrade.com/public···clauses=
»translate.google.com/translate?h···rls%3Den
Who is Michael Olaf Schuett – for our english speaking readers
»www.usag24-betrug.com/index.php/···readers/
The actual filing documents at UK Company House for BLUETOOL LTD
 BLUETOOL_LTD_COI.pdf 631586 bytes
And your BANK is ACTUALLY entertaining the OUTRAGIOUS idea that a fraudulent charge to your card made by a company and Billing Service buried underneath trails and trails of paperwork, hidden shadow registrations, spanning several countries and continents. IS ACTUALLY A CHARGE FROM A LEGITIMATE COMPANY. Tell them to get real !!
A porn charge from a UK entity by way of A GERMAN processor / acquirer bank with a foreign transaction fee. All for a domain registered to a UK address where no one has heard of that company. Whose domain was registered via Imerchant Intl who uses another UK residential address but is actually connected to a company in Canada called PYTHON MEDIA.
Try and find anything legitimate with connections to BOURNEWOOD LTD and FERMOYA LTD
MGD | |
| Thanks so much MGD, I plan to study your posts in more depth.
I noticed that 800notes has oodles of complaints about unauthorized credit card charges that began about the same time as mine: July 25th. Actually I caught the charge still pending but most people are just now seeing it on their statements.
Examine this thread with 15 pages of complaints, different number, different amount but similar in ways (I think many of lafincs.com adult sites had a Texas connection too) Lots of complaints about this number: 8007689144
Given the federal estimate that only 80-85% of consumers even dispute a small unauthorized charge with their bank, this could be a tsunami of fraud. | |
| reply to MGD
Yes add my name to the ever increasing list of victims from these bastards.
I just opened my CC statement and yes there it is $39.71 for my supposed subscription to LAFINCS.COM.
I haven't used CCBilling for months so I don't know how or why this happened.
I am in Australia.
I shall ring my bank tomorrow (Its an Australian bank, no links with BofA etc) based on what I have read here tonight.
I thank everyone who has posted here. It is good to know I am not alone. | |
| reply to Quibble28
I apparently fell victim to this asshole-of-a-company's shenanigans this morning. $39.71 by lafincs.com. I, too, have used ccbill many times in the past, until now without issue. Last time I made a transaction through ccbill was a few months ago.
I've already canceled my card, but need to call the "Fraud Line" for Bank of America tonight to report it.
Thanks for all the info, MGD. | |
| im a victem as well of 39.71 (bit strang most peoples are the same ) this is complete crap people that do these sort of thing need 2 be shot in head maybe then people will relise its wrong u fruadgantly take money from other people weather its 39.71 dollers or a million u just dont do it and i honestly hope the people responsible face life in prison if not worse ,
My question is tho has any body recieve there money back or componsation in some way | |
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join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
kudos:18 | said by Ho0ps :
im a victem as well of 39.71
My question is tho has any body recieve there money back or componsation in some way
You get your money back by calling your Credit Card supplier's 800 number and report the fraudulent charge plus close that account so you get the card replaced to prevent further fraud charges.
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| reply to Quibble28
Count me in as another who got done for this $39.71 charge! I am in Australia and have never used CCBill that I know of, though.
My bank cancelled my card straight away and are doing a chargeback. They have said straight up I will not be responsible for any fees or charges for this transaction and will be refunded within a couple of weeks. | |
| reply to MGD
I just saw the same cn860.net photo with the smiling customer reps on a Facebook ad! I didn't click on it of course, but did report it to Facebook.
It wasn't clear what they were advertising, I think they hoped the picture of a cute woman on the phone would reap some clicks. Lafincs.com had the same pic at first but took it down and replaced it with a keyboard pic.
BTW, I also see that people reported being ripped off for $39.71 as early as 2009 by cn860.net. mrsl and muhpop were a couple other related frauds with lots of complaints.
I plan to study all your research when I have more time. I wish I understood computers better but always did like a puzzle. I'll have quite a case prepared for the OCC if Bank of America denies my dispute claim. If I can add anything to my FBI complaint I will.
If I'm seeing this ad on my Facebook page are they targeting previous victims of their schemes? Is FB even safe any more? | |
| I just saw a different Facebook ad with a business graph and just the words: "Billing Issues?" I think those same words were under the cn860.net photo. | |
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said by Quibble28:If I'm seeing this ad on my Facebook page are they targeting previous victims of their schemes? Is FB even safe any more? It's a high risk site sadly.
»Protect Your Network from Facebook Malware
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