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Enhver røvhul ringede til min kollega og truet med, at han er ansvarlig, når jeg skriver mere om disse svindlere.

Også hvem skal jeg tror, ​​at svindlere bare bluff, vil jeg være skyldig på ingen måde, men hvis det sker.

Derfor er jeg slettet alle artikler om bedrager, selv om så mister den igen nogle fattige narre en masse penge.

Jeg er ked af
Hubert

It's finally paying off!

I kew it, I always knew it! Once there would come a day where all this pesky blogging stuff would finally pay off! I would get my fifteen minutes of fame, along with a first class redirection to life's fast lane. I was right - the proof arrived just the other day.
I received this very interesting mail:

Hi,

I found your blog epitheton ornans on Blogger and I may have an interesting proposal for you.
I work for the CityMedia foundation (citymediafoundation.org) and we are currently offering relevant bloggers from all over the world a chance to become the administrator of their city’s video site; this is why I’m contacting you.

We created the [City].vi network, making videos of world cities instinctively accessible with this address model: “city name” followed by “.vi”
For example: paris.vi, madrid.vi, chicago.vi, losangeles.vi, etc.
The address model works for 68,000 of the world’s most important cities. Think about a city and try...

The objective of the [City].vi network is to become the leading resource for local video content. Our strategy: working with relevant local bloggers.

We would be pleased you become the administrator of silkeborg.vi and offer internet surfers a comprehensive video selection about Silkeborg.
By managing your city’s video site you earn all of the revenues made from the site: ads, professionals registrations, links...

You must also know that for a same city, we send a proposal to several bloggers.

The city’s video site is then delegated to the one who made the best offer.
This is the most efficient way for us to select site administrators who will be motivated to propose their citizens and city’s visitors a comprehensive video selection.

Come on the site, you will find the proposal in detail and the advantages to work with us and take control of your city's video site.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl500NppDCY
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/city.vi
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/city_vi

Thank you for your attention.

Vicki Karlin
City.vi Manager
City.vi, a tool by CityMedia Fdt
citymediafoundation.org

Well, this mail contains about everything required for a third or fourth class TV daily soap: An idea of very restricted brightness, a whole bunch of empty bullshit bingo phrases and an exposé which raises more questions than it answers. So I clicked the video link to find enlightenment, but instead, I found this:



For the good part, this video requires neither language nor reading skills. For the not so good part, it provides almost no information at all. This awesome work of post modern video art consists of prominent placement of Google logos, screen shots of some [City].vi sites and several minutes of boooooring Google Earth animation. I estimate, it took almost a whole afternoon to do that.

OK, there's at least one symbol which could be the crucial recurring motif in this six minute opera:


$

This symbol repeatedly moves from the web site shots towards the profile pictures of heroic bloggers supposedly taking care of these sites. Could there be a hidden message?

The so called "City Media Foundation" claims to be based near Lausanne in Switzerland, while the phone numbers are clearly french and the TLD ".vi" belongs to the Virgin Islands.

Registrant Name:Julien Panouillot
Registrant Organization:CITY MEDIA FOUNDATION
Registrant Street1:Chemin des Vernes
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Romanel
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code:1032
Registrant Country:CH
Registrant Phone:+33.688090353

All (OK, I did not check all 70.000 of them) the [City].vi domains already in operation are registered to:

Registrant: Cities & Communication
Name: CNC100 Cities & Communication
Organization Name: Cities & Communication
Street Address: Corporate Place, 5600 Royal Dane Mall
City: St.Thomas 
State:VI
Post Code: 00802
Country: VI
Phone #: (340) 774-2944
Email: domains@cnc.vi 

a company based on the Virgin Islands. Part from this mismatch, something else looks quite strange to me. My attempt to get my own .vi domain at nic.vi came to an unexpected end when I saw their price list. Even for locals, they charge 35$, non locals should pay no less than 50$ per domain and year. This is roughly ten times the average consumer price for regular domains. That really makes me wonder, how much they might have paid for their 70.000 domains.

All that left me even more curious about the real intention behind this spam mail. So i navigated one of my browsers to silkeborg.vi (Yes - it's there already!) and clicked the link saying "Become the site administrator. More information" and enlightenment struck me:

Let googlebot share this as well:

How to make Silkeborg.vi your site:
The [City].vi network video sites can be hired for periods of one year.
Allocation of [City].vi sites is based on submitted bids.
A bid is how much you intend to offer to run the site for 1 year.
Offers can be submitted for 20 days after the first offer is made.
At the end of the 20 day period, control of the site is awarded to the person who made and paid for the best offer.

Once a [City].vi site is yours, no one else will be able to manage it unless you decide not to renew it the following year.

The renewal price is the same as your initial offer.

You have no commitments and can stop running the site whenever you want.

So now we're talking. Somehow, the idea is quite admirable. There is an almost infinite amount of cities in this world and every single one of them can have its own [City].vi site. Provided, the Virgin Islands nic is somehow part of this not so clean game, the sites come at close to no cost for "City Media Foundation". On the other hand, there is a very obscure auction running for every single city domain, driven by bloggers who hope to earn some revenues from this next big thing service.

In the end there will be a bunch of bloggers paying a fantastic amount for a close-to-useless site (after all, this is not paris.vi, this is huts-by-the-river.vi or silkeborg.vi), leaving the "City Media Foundation" and their "partners" with roughly 100% revenue. Not so bad (for them)!

In the end, it's a pity that it always comes down to the same old story about greed and stupidity...

Adam, Eve and the APPLE of doom

Sometiimes I must make up some stuff to get a nice flashy headline. Well, to be honest, the story I'm about to tell does neither involve Eve nor Adam. It does however involve some innocence being lost.

A few days ago, a good friend of mine was contacted by an "Investment trading firm" calling themselves SMG Capital, a "Tokyo based" telephone trading company. He was offered to buy Apple Inc. shares at an impressively low price. By the way: Does anyone here believe that recommending "Apple Inc." for an investment is a smart, insider kind of hint? Even my grandma knows about Steve Jobs' latest achievements. Still he got a professional looking "research" (HAH!) leaflet describing SMG Capital as well as Apple Inc..

Doesn't all that look good? Very good? Too good perhaps? Let me put this extremely straight: Yes, it does in fact look too good to be true. SGM Capital is nothing but a bunch of fraudsters repeating the same plan over and over again. So far my friends and me have come up with at least these other fraudulent "companies" (neither of which exist).

• Okuma Group
• Dai Ichi Securities
• Sakura Financial Group
• Delta Continental 
• Satori Group

It's exactly the same thing I have already written about regarding  Delta Continental. All of these fake companies share some specific similarities:

• The agents call with no or fake caller ID
• The company has a web site giving very little or no information about the companies legal status (like registration numbers)
• The only internet evidence about the company can be found in dubious "free press" sites like prlog.com, openPR and the like.
• They always start with a renowned paper at an attractive price, faking high gains (of a stock you don't actually own!) within short time.
• Money always has to be transferred via very dubious clearing agents like "Serluna Ltd", "Dragon link Solutions", "Jubilant Holdings" and so on. This is done to keep them from being tracked down following the money trail.
• They then talk you into buying an unknown but even more profitable paper, with a substantial additional payment
• Then this last step is repeated until the "client/victim" runs out of money or patience.

Doing so, the fraudsters can  gain any amount between 5.000 and more than 200.000€ per victim. Please do not give a single cent to these assholes. They are fraudsters!

There is an old saying which about sums all that up: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck".

Still in doubt? Do you really think I could write all that without being sued to hell and back if these were real, legally operating companies?

I'm not dead, just busy: Satori Group

Oh, I'm sorry I kept you millions of readers waiting for so long. I was busy. Yes, in fact even I have to do some ordinary work every now and then. But now I'm back with new news - GAAH - the newest news! I have found a new company. Forget Delta Continental, now that Satori Group is here!

No, please do not forget about Delta Continental, they're still dangerous but please do mind the new fraud-star company, the Satori Group!

On the other hand, don't be too excited about it, it's identically the same shit we already know,  the names change, the game stays the same. I got word about this new group from a guy who already dumped Dai Ichi Securities after having lost almost 50000€. Either these guys are absolutely balls-of-steel kind of cool or they are blazingly stupid to once more contact the guy they already stripped down to his undies.

Right now I prefer to believe the latter is the case. For your very reading pleasure, I have also provided the absolutely DIY looking invoice

along with the new banking information (aka money launderer #1):
 

Jubilant Holdings Limited
068-76-000259-7-00
Taishin International Bank (Chien-Kuo N Branch)
2F, NO. 17, Sec. 2, Jianguo North Road,
Taipei 104,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
TSIBTWTP

OK people, simply do not fall for this annoyingly stupid 324th remix of the old fraud scheme. It's no longer fashionable to be that stupid.

As always, feel free to comment.

Pin the donkey's asshole: Fraud at its best

The Google hits referring to my very special friends are increasing again, which makes me believe that the professional business people have ended their well-deserved summer holiday and returned to work.

What I'm gonna do now is hit the bush with the bass fiddle and see if I can stir up some grumpy hornets. Currently I know about four companies utilizing the proven fraud scheme and thus reaping obscene amounts of money.

* Okuma Group
* Dai Ichi Securities
* Sakura Financial Group
* Delta Continental

The evidence gathered by actual victims is overwhelming so that I can say without any doubt that these companies are fraudulent and no one will ever see a mere trace of his money once "invested".

Then there are several "companies" of which I am quite sure that the same butt wipes can be found behind the scene. If any reader has ever earned real money (i.e. money actually transferred to your account) with one of these companies, tell me and I will remove the name from the list. Whoever wants to see the list extended, this can be done as well. Sufficiently suspicious are:

* Ovannis Capital
* Denko Group
* Offshore Resource
* Green Energy Marketing

All of these  "companies"  acquire via cold calls (illegal in most parts of Europe) speaking English. First they offer shares of well known companies at sensational prices (no reason for hope - you can not trade them since you actualy don't even own them), only to transfer this deposit to some papers of fictitious companies, which are controlled by the fraudsters. Such sock puppet companies include:

* Guizhou Mining or
* Paragon GPS

My conclusion is this: Who ever gets called by these guys will do well claiming to be penniless or - even better - using such a botched English to use that the phone gangsters will see no way to communicate their business idea.

Please don't give those butt wipes any money!

I am of course always available for comments or questions. If you like to post a comment, I would appreciate some information about where you're from (country would be enough).

Delta Continental is busy acquiring

The more I find out, the more I'm sure it's the same guys that recently brought us Sakura, Dai-Ichi and Okuma. This brings me to some theories about the way these comrades do their business. If you dropped in right here, please don't miss my brilliant first part.

The fraud business works in overlapping seasons of six months. The freshly "founded" enterprises set out for acquisition of new victims which are baited by the usual regular stock deals and then gradually prepared for the real ripoff. This can take some months.

While the remaining victims are squeezed out until even the toughest optimists kiss their money goodbye, the next acquisition wave is launched.

This is what currently happens with our well known Sakura, Dai-Ichi and Okuma providers, They have "founded" (or rather: "invented") some new companies (presumably three as well) and are now fishing for fresh idiots.

As of today, I have positive proof of one new fraudulent enterprise - the already known Delta Continental. There must be at least one more I don't yet know of.

What I do already know, is the next step that takes place if one victim is willing to accept the bargain offered. If one really wants to "buy" (we know, noone will ever actually own anything) Amylin Pharmaceuticals shares, he (or she) will be provided with an even more professional-looking commercial invoice along with Bank and wire instructions.

Guess what? The transfer agent looks familiar!

Account Name:   DRAGON LINK SOLUTIONS LTD.
Account Number: 140-07-526855-01
IBAN:           CY11 0050 0140 0001 4007 5268 5501
Swift Code:     HEBACY2NLAR
Bank Name:      Hellenic Bank Ltd.
Address:        International Business Centre
                173, Athalassa Avenue
                Po Box 24529
                2025 Nicosia
                Cyprus

Well, compare that to the transfer agent used for Sakura or Okuma:

Account Name      Serluna Limited
Account Number    140-01-524489-01
SWIFT             HEBACY2N
IBAN              CY12 0050 0140 0001 4001 5244 8901
Bank              Hellenic Bank Ltd
                  International Business Centre
                  173 Athalassa Avenue
                  2025 Nicosia
                  Cyprus

To me, this does not leave too much space for interpretation. Once again, whoever has been contacted by "Delta Continental" or whatever the other companies may be called, please contact me, either via Comment or email.

So let the game commence!

Update: The story continues here!

Delta Continental - A new Fraud-Star is born!

Perhaps you wonder why I was quiet for such a long time? Well, er, let's put it that way: There are certain kinds of sport which are preferably for young people...

At least blogging is suitable for elderly people and now that i have reclaimed my hands, I can devote the very post post to a completely new and fresh fraudster business.

The other day I got another anonymous cold call, this time claiming to originate from a company named Delta Continental. No, these two airlines have not yet merged, Delta Continental claims to be "pure play brokerage and investment management firm devoted to bringing our clients pioneering financial solutions." (*yawn*). I think I remember when I smelled that one before...

A quick google will shed some light:

http://www.google.com/search?q=deltacontinental+press

Yesss! It's the same useless free-press-shit we already found connected to the old farts at Okuma Group, Dai-Ichi Securities and Sakura Financial Group. Some things are different though.

Firstly, the domain is old! It has been created 2005-05-16 and there's real people's names in the contact section! It looks like they have repeated their Paragon-GPS stunt and acquired an existing domain to appear even more inconspicuous. Yet, there is no site to be found in the waybackmachine.

All the rest of this fraudulent business has not changed a bit. They offer Amylin Pharmaceuticals (this company of course does exist)  shares at an amazingly low price but the payment has to be done through an offshore clearing agent, blabla, bullshit! We heard that all before.

Whoever googled for delta continental and found this, please do yourself and me two favors:

1. Do not sent any money to these buttwipes. You will never never never see that again.
2. Drop me a note if you have been contacted. You can do that by either commenting on this post or sending me an email (look at my profile, use a fake account, I don't care).

I'll keep you updated (unless I break my hands again, that is).

Update: The update  is here! If you post a Comment, I would greatly appreciate if you could give me a rough estimation where you're from (Country would do).