Job Scam: river-partners.net
A new name has turned up today in the ongoing magical morphing job scam series. This one calls itself "River Partners Inc", and currently uses the domain name "river-partners.net", but River Partners bears a striking similarity to Trigon Partners. Could it be the same rat behind the curtain again? Why wouldn't it be? The spam text is archived at Suckers Wanted.
Here's the DNS information about "river-partners.net" at this time. As is typical for these guys, only one of their nameservers was responding to queries.
; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> A river-partners.net @66.109.17.68 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56760 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;river-partners.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: river-partners.net. 1800 IN A 69.243.77.246 river-partners.net. 1800 IN A 82.49.125.97 river-partners.net. 1800 IN A 82.237.121.9 river-partners.net. 1800 IN A 24.99.224.131 river-partners.net. 1800 IN A 65.184.136.225 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: river-partners.net. 1800 IN NS ns1.serv-names.com. river-partners.net. 1800 IN NS ns2.serv-names.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.serv-names.com. 1800 IN A 66.109.17.68 ns2.serv-names.com. 1800 IN A 72.9.1.151 ;; Query time: 231 msec ;; SERVER: 66.109.17.68#53(66.109.17.68) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 20 02:52:11 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 198
If anyone has corresponded with these scammers, please forward it to me or post it here so that I can aggregate the information.
3 comments:
i am afraid that i have already established a connection and given them many details about me! where can i send you the email i received from riverspartners.us (a.lee@riverpartners.us)to see if you can check their autenthicity.
Thank you! estebanrc@optusnet.com
I also have given out simillar info
about myself to this exact company via email [a.lee@riverspartners.us]
please email me if they are known fraud or identity theves . thank you nationallifts@yahoo.com
So far as I am aware, they are not running this employment scam to obtain information for identity fraud. Rather, they are transferring stolen money into the accounts of their "employees", and getting the employees to make Western Union wire transfers. In this manner, the stolen money can only be traced to the "employee".
If you receive any direct transfer of funds from them, assume that it's stolen and that the real owner (or police) will come looking for it.
If you receive any cheque or money order from them, assume that it's forged unless your bank certifies otherwise.
Don't make any Western Union or Money Gram payments to them, since that money will be unrecoverable.
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