One recent example: commwealthbankau.com was a domain reported in http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... =6&t=51925 by a victim who was scammed back in 2010 by fraudsters using that fake site. The domain was active for a year, being created only for the email address (the registrant was using the privacy protection given by the registrar to hide his details) and expired after a year.
Six years later, in March 2016, the exact domain was back while being used in the same type of online frauds.
Emails received from a victim:
Thursday, June 30, 2016, from THE KINGS BANK < thekingsbank-asia@asia.com <thekingsban-asia@asia.com> wrote:
DESK OF: MS: HUA ZHANG FUND MANAGER
ADD: #88-91, WEST SANZHUANG STREET
SHIJIAZHUANG, SHANGHAI- CHINA
THE KINGS BANK CHINA OFFICE (KBC)
TELEX /FUND TRANSFER SECTION, ASIA PACIFIC.
E-mail: thekingsbank-asia@asia.com
Private E-mail: tbank402@yahoo.com
Tel/Fax: 008613059465322
Tel: 008613168347321
DATE: 30/06/2016
Attn: Beneficiary:
RE: REMITTANCE ADVICE
(Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United Dollars Payment (US$850,000.00) only
Thanks for your email of today. We wish to inform you that your Entitlement fund deposited fund the sum of (US$850,000.00) Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only. Note that your file has received a clean release notice from this Honorable office (KBC).
Therefore after our board of the director meeting held today the 30/06/2016, we are happy to inform you that a final decision has been taken your fund releasing to you via our offshore corresponding bank. Note that your payment of US$850,000.00) voucher has been dispatched to Commonwealth bank in Australia. Under the attention of Mr. David Cohen, Auditing account manager, Commonwealth bank, Australia,4/36 - 38 Gregory Terrace Alice Springs NT 0870, Australia, Email; info@commwealthbankau.com, Email: info@commonwealthbnau.com, Tel; 61-488801697,Tel; 61280734468, Fax; 61-286078394
I hope by now they must have contacted you and if not yet don't worried they will get back to you as soon as possible. As all the modalities of releasing you fund are in good condition.
I hope to hear from you in no distant time
Yours Faithfully
MS: HUA ZHANG FUND MANAGER
Tel: 008613168347321
+61488801697
Number billable as mobile number
Country or destination Australia
Original network provider* Telstra Corporation Ltd
+61280734468
Number billable as geographic number
Country or destination Australia
City or exchange location Sydney
+61286078394
Number billable as geographic number
Country or destination Australia
City or exchange location Central East Australia
+8613059465322 / +8613168347321
Number billable as mobile number
Country or destination China
Original network provider* China Unicom
From: THE KINGS BANK < thekingsbank-asia@asia.com >
Date: Monday, October 17, 2016,
Subject: Re: RE: REMITTANCE ADVICE
DESK OF: MS: HUA ZHANG FUND MANAGER
ADD: #88-91, WEST SANZHUANG STREET
SHIJIAZHUANG, SHANGHAI- CHINA
THE KINGS BANK CHINA OFFICE (KBC)
TELEX TRANSFER SECTION, ASIA PACIFIC.
E-mail: thekingsbank-asia@asia.com <thekingsbank-asia@asia.com>
Tel/Fax: 008613059465322
We are contacting you once again about your fund under our custody hope you should ready to receive it this time. If you are ready and interested kindly reply back to us as to enable us release your fund to you.
MS: HUA ZHANG
FUND MANAGER
Before talking about the work of the fake sites maker, let's take a look at the one building those sites used in fraud - pictures with his wife, children and friends not posted:
Aremo Oluwagbenga
CEO & Founder at I OWNED MY OWN BUSINESS
Studied Accounting at yabatech and Lasu
Studied at LASU
Lives in Lagos, Nigeria
His details given while registering some of the fake sites used in online fraud are already reported in http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... 17&t=51755. In another way of speaking, he is a part of the same scam syndicate...