[Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.photogey

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jswanson join:2008-02-24	[Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.photogey This is the same small charge $9.87 credit card fraud scheme posted on other threads although I have not yet seen these two sites specifically mentioned. If you see a small charge from either of these companies please: 1. Report the FRAUD to your credit card company, do not just dispute the charge - state that it is FRAUD and insist on a chargeback. Get a new credit card # and close the old account. 2. Report the fraud to www.ic3.gov with as much detail as possible 3. DO NOT attempt to contact the company as they will reverse the charges but may charge you again next month. They would rather refund your money then be investigated for fraud. HOWEVER, if you want to help stop them work through ic3.gov and your credit card FRAUD division. 4. Check your credit card statements carefully every month. There are many forums out there regarding this topic... all you need to do is search on small charge credit card fraud or even 9.87 charge credit card fraud.
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jswanson join:2008-02-24	Re: [Credit Card Fraud] fraud: www.prophotosland.com & www.phot Sorry - other site name was cut off... it was www.photogeyser.com
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jswanson join:2008-02-24	reply to jswanson Another site in this network just popped up... »polishpicturesonline.com/ they use the same exact pictures and text as the other two... watch out for this one... looks like it has been live for a little over a week.
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Doctor Olds I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium,VIP join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 clubs: edit: February 24th, @06:16PM	reply to jswanson Two are hidden by their robots.txt contents and the last one doesn't have a robots.txt file at all. www.prophotosland.com Snapped 2008-02-24 17:38:38 »www.prophotosland.com/ »www.prophotosland.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / www.photogeyser.com Snapped 2008-02-24 17:38:20 »www.photogeyser.com/ »www.photogeyser.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / www.polishpicturesonline.com Snapped 2008-02-24 17:37:57 »www.polishpicturesonline.com/ »www.polishpicturesonline.com/robots.txt Page Not Found Intereresting also is that the Contacts from each site are different. With a name or two from another group of scam-front sites. :[ »https://www.prophotosland.com/index.php?···=contact Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@prophotosland.com tel: (609) 916-0040 »https://www.photogeyser.com/index.php?action=contact Support: Eric Robertson e-mail: support@photogeyser.com tel: (301) 979-9960 »https://www.polishpicturesonline.com/ind···=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@polishpicturesonline.com tel: (214) 556-6190 Strange... Regards, Doctor Olds -- What’s the point of owning a supercar if you can’t scare yourself stupid from time to time?
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jswanson join:2008-02-24	reply to jswanson Another one is popping up with similar text... home page is different but text and some photos are the same: »imagesparadise.com/
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Doctor Olds I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium,VIP join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 clubs:	www.imagesparadise.com Snapped 2008-02-24 21:52:03 »www.imagesparadise.com/ »www.imagesparadise.com/robots.txt Page Not Found »https://www.imagesparadise.com/index.php···=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imagesparadise.com tel: (214) 556-6153 -- What’s the point of owning a supercar if you can’t scare yourself stupid from time to time?
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pcdebb Buttercup sees you Premium join:2000-12-03 Tampa, FL clubs:	reply to jswanson MGD should probably add these to the list
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Doctor Olds I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium,VIP join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 clubs:	reply to jswanson Found another one: www.photosparadise.com Snapped 2008-02-25 00:02:59 »www.photosparadise.com/ »www.photosparadise.com/robots.txt Page Not Found »https://www.photosparadise.com/index.php···=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@photosparadise.com tel: (214) 556-6153 -- What’s the point of owning a supercar if you can’t scare yourself stupid from time to time?
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Doctor Olds I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium,VIP join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 clubs:	reply to jswanson And another.... www.imgparadise.com Snapped 2008-02-25 00:11:46 »www.imgparadise.com/ »www.imgparadise.com/robots.txt Page Not Found »https://www.imgparadise.com/index.php?action=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imgparadise.com tel: (213) 984-4966 Cute. NOT! -- What’s the point of owning a supercar if you can’t scare yourself stupid from time to time?
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Doctor Olds I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me. Premium,VIP join:2001-04-19 1970 442 W30 clubs:	reply to jswanson And this oddball one. www.zenithgraphic.com Snapped 2008-02-25 02:54:57 »www.zenithgraphic.com/ »www.zenithgraphic.com/cookies.txt Page Not Found »https://www.zenithgraphic.com/index.php?···=contact Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@zenithgraphic.com tel: (504) 208-4860 General: Edris Hoover info@zenithgraphic.com tel: (505) 350-8506 Jupiter, LLC 8210 Robin Ave NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 -- What’s the point of owning a supercar if you can’t scare yourself stupid from time to time?
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fireflier Coffee. . .Need Coffee Premium join:2001-05-25 Limbo	Interesting that the name "Jupiter, LLC" is shown there. Wasn't the name jupiter involved in some other less recent CC charging scams?
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crazfamily @coxfiber.net	reply to jswanson This has happened to me recently. I will go to that web site asap. also this must be wide spread. It looks like the credit card companys would pick up on this.
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Juliette @sbcglobal.net	reply to jswanson This just happened to me with prophotosland - I contacted my credit card's fraud dept. and filed a complaint. The weird thing is that they were telling me that that charge was from a local mall (which I have not shopped at in weeks and at which there is no such store) and that my card was swiped (I had my card with me). Card closed, charge replaced, but am curious about how it came up as a local charge with my card swiped...
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MGD Premium,MVM join:2002-07-31 Fort Lauderdale, FL	reply to jswanson said by jswanson : This is the same small charge $9.87 credit card fraud scheme posted on other threads although I have not yet seen these two sites specifically mentioned. ....... Oh Excellent, thank you for Heads Up!! And lets continue with Doctor Olds 's digging. pcdebb is indeed correct, into the data base they go. I can confirm positively that these are the next round of "Globus" fraud sites from Doctor Olds 's thread: »pictureglobus.com, imaglobus.com, and templateglobus.com now I need to see if anyone who is a slickdeals member can either IM or post to this thread: »forums.slickdeals.net/showthread···ngle.com The poster "Minette" may have some valuable info I need. They got charged $9.87 by PROPHOTOSLAND.COM on 1/27 and subsequently got hit by according to them: "a company called "Alkay Services LLC", this time on ANOTHER credit card I own, for the amount of $9.64. Same business (photo) according to my bank (Chase). I need the phone number that may have been listed on the line item charge, or at least part of it. if it was not listed on the charge the card issuer should be able to give it to them. If anyone else has a "Alkay Services LLC" charge and has or can get the number. This group is also using the same deflecting tactic as the globus group, by telling victims someone registered on the site with their car. More than likely any victim who bought that lie and got a credit will have been hit with a second charge the next month. Any subsequent second hit names and full info is vital in following the trail. The C&C website for the Globus was the bogus "Hermes Electro" hermeselectro.com: »hermeselectro.com pretending to be in Hong Kong: The C&C for this picture, image, photo, fraud group is a bogus site "Hong-Kong Content Trade", hkc-trade.com: »hkc-trade.com/ A direct clone of the other one: There are no records that indicate a business by those names exist at either of those addresses. Need to add picturesjungle.com »www.picturesjungle.com/index.php···=contact to the list also. I am off the belief that the names listed on the sites such as Eric Robertson, also of Globus fame, and Cristian Darie etc. are all fictitious. Having spent countless hours checking LLCs' and corp registrations in the state of Texas, including multiple county FBN lists, I do not believe they exist. At least until something substantial comes up to indicate otherwise. You will notice from the added info to the sites listed above, that not only are the current crop using GoDaddy hosting, so were the Globus group. I am not sure if it was posted, but one of the early victims of the Globus run, was told by GoDaddy that they would not shut them down without legal action. I will try and find a copy. This group probably represents one of the most egregious lack of due care by a hosting company. Providing these criminals with a conduit, which enables them access to payment gateways allowing them to fraudulently process thousands of credit cards is unbelievable. Lets just look at the worst case: We have hosting provided to supposed e-commerce sites, where one can readily see from the robots.txt file, that no one could even find them. Plus their domain registration is cloaked, hidden. The only information published is a bogus name, and a cell phone contact number. Now we are seeing supposed e-commerce sites registered to bogus locations in Hong Kong, and they are using contact phone numbers in various US states. The entire set up configuration reeks of fraud, a four year old could spot it, before the first charge ever hit. http://www.polishpicturesonline.com/index.php?action=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@polishpicturesonline.com tel: 214-556-6190 no scam reports 214-556-6190 Type: Land Line Provider: MCI Worldcom Communications Inc Location: Plano, TX Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: POLISHPICTURESONLINE.COM Created on: 30-Dec-07 Expires on: 30-Dec-09 Last Updated on: 30-Dec-07 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO support@hkc-trade.com Honk-Kong Content Trade Company 426 King's Road North Point, N/A 000000 Hong Kong 85281980664 Domain servers in listed order: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM »www.prophotosland.com/index.php?···=contact Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@prophotosland.com tel: 609-916-0040 (609) 916-0040 Type: Land Line Provider: Focal Communications Corp Location: Pleasantville, NJ PROPHOTOSLAND.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PROPHOTOSLAND.COM Created on: 05-Dec-07 Expires on: 05-Dec-08 Last Updated on: 05-Dec-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM »www.imagesparadise.com/index.php···=contact Support: Cristian Darie e-mail: support@imagesparadise.com tel: 214-556-6153 (214) 556-6153 Type: Land Line Provider: MCI Worldcom Communications Inc Location: Plano, TX Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: IMAGESPARADISE.COM Created on: 07-Feb-08 Expires on: 07-Feb-09 Last Updated on: 07-Feb-08 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO haitao.zhang44@yahoo.com 426 King's Road Hong Kong, North Point -- Hong Kong 85281980623 Domain servers in listed order: NS23.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS24.DOMAINCONTROL.COM »www.photogeyser.com/index.php?action=contact Support: Eric Robertson e-mail: support@photogeyser.com tel: (301) 979-9960 (301) 979-9960Type: Land Line Provider: Verizon Location: Washington, MD PHOTOGEYSER.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PHOTOGEYSER.COM Created on: 14-Nov-07 Expires on: 14-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 14-Nov-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM »www.picturesjungle.com/index.php···=contact Support: Alex McGuire e-mail: support@picturesjungle.com tel: (706) 955-4677 (706) 955-4677Type: Land Line Provider: Level 3 Communications Location: Augusta, GA PICTURESJUNGLE.COM Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PICTURESJUNGLE.COM Created on: 27-Nov-07 Expires on: 27-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 27-Nov-07 Domain servers in listed order: NS27.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM HKC-TRADE.COM Registrant: HKC Trade Co. 426 King's Road Honk Kong, North Point - Hong Kong Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: HKC-TRADE.COM Created on: 28-Nov-07 Expires on: 29-Nov-08 Last Updated on: 28-Nov-07 Administrative Contact: ZHANG, HAITAO haitao.zhang44@yahoo.com HKC Trade Co. 426 King's Road Honk Kong, North Point - Hong Kong +852 2562 8127 Domain servers in listed order: NS27.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM MGD
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jswanson join:2008-02-24	reply to jswanson Hi MGD, Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. Same visuals/text as photogeyser and prophotosland.com. Alex McGuire is also the contact on this one. Just looks like a different version.
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juicyminidonut @comcast.net	said by jswanson : Hi MGD, Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. Same visuals/text as photogeyser and prophotosland.com. Alex McGuire is also the contact on this one. Just looks like a different version. Same thing happened to me, a charge was listed on my account for $9.87 from www.photosmix.com. Did you ever get through to the phone number listed on the website? After reading this forum, I called once and didn't bother trying again, and called my bank instead. They reimbursed me but it's kind of a hassle now that I have do the paperwork to file it as a fraudulent charge and everything... and I also have to wait for a new card in the mail...
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cxg @citicorp.com	reply to jswanson www.photosmix.com happened to me as well. I've filed a complaint with the fraud department of my bank, used the government website listed above, and e-mailed the abuse@godaddy.com website, as they are the host for this website (their "secure site" logo is at the bottom left). I may even go file a complaint with the local police department today, and even go so far as contacting the better business bureau.
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hkfczrqj @uiuc.edu	reply to jswanson add me to the www.photosmix.com scam. Will proceed as stated in this thread. Thanks for the very complete info on this fraud.
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MGD Premium,MVM join:2002-07-31 Fort Lauderdale, FL	reply to jswanson said by jswanson : Hi MGD, Please also add www.photosmix.com to your database. Phone 941-312-2213 out of Florida. ..... Yes indeed, good find. They are confirmed as a fraud operation. Also had the robots.txt no follow search block. As a matter of fact, the site went down while I was checking it. Not sure why, or if it will stay down. Many of these set ups are paid for with hijacked card data. GoDaddy needs to get with program and put a stop to this fraud hosting and domain registration cloaking. The names on the sites, such as Alex McGuire are boogus. [photosmix.com IP 72.167.110.64] Registrant:PHOTOSMIX.COM Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: PHOTOSMIX.COM Created on: 17-Dec-07 Expires on: 18-Dec-08 Last Updated on: 17-Dec-07 Administrative Contact: Private, Registration PHOTOSMIX.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599 Domain servers in listed order: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM MGD
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shepbobz @ameritech.net	reply to juicyminidonut Add one more to the photosmix.com scam. Showed up on our bill today. Hope all who get this report it as a fraud-- these folks need to be stopped.
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