Yesterday I promised to reveal some details from yesterday's almost one hour phone call. And yes - I will do so. But with a big but (yes! pun intended! I always wanted to write that)! The single sentence conclusion is:
"The Okuma Group is one of many makeup firms by a highly sophisticated and profitable gang of fraudsters."
I spent a lot of last night's sleep pondering the new information, the result of my own investigations and the possible implications. My contact warned me insistently about getting into the fraudster's way, as he himself received several threatening messages. One of those is still available in his blog (just in case: forget the german text, the message is English anyway).
So if I publish his findings along with mine and get into the "Okuma Group's" way, I might get both of us in trouble.
Up to now, there is no real risk as by some strange twist of fate, google does not index my blog (is the automatic crap detector so powerful already?).
First things first, I will publish what everyone can find out and prove by him (or her)self.
The "Okuma Group" does not exist. Their website (→whois) is hosted on a shared server at Go Daddy and the domains used are registered by an anonymizing proxy service. No serious enterprise would do either of that. Furthermore there is not a single word about the corporate organization on the entire website. This is not only unusual, in fact it is illegal for a Japanese company to omit this information.
Feel free to check all of that by yourself and then decide if you would like to do business with a non-existing company. I know, I don't and that's exactly what I'm gonna tell them, the next time they call me.
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