Dear Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
To Whom It May Concern,
I have forwarded an email from a company that is operating a scam somewhere out of Montreal. The company has a name of TRANSACT-BILL.COM. I signed up for $1.99 to download a song I wanted to use on my business website. These idviduals are connected to other individuals in Russia. I also got information in Malta. The scammers are using different aliases as listed below in this email.
Listed on my transaction history...Instead TRANSACT-BILL.COM withdrew $39.95 on 21-JAN-2010 01:26:02 AM and then another $40.27 on 22-JAN-2010 04:29:44 AM. A contact number on the transaction is 8662657835. I called the number and a person gave me a number for direct contact at area code 514-733-2716 which is in montreal. When I go to www.transact-bill.com it redirects over to maketbill.com. I traced both of them out and the IP addresses are located in Montreal.
I work in IT(information technology. The website I went to and signed up initially was over in Russia. Www.mediadome.ru. Since it is a Russian website, the Russian entities that control domain registration have total control over the databases. I have been unable to get any information on mediadome.ru and who owns it.
A red flag went up when I saw the Russian websitet. I told myself that there have to be some honest companies over in Russia, so I went through the process of the order.
The transaction on my credit card listed a phone number as 866-265-7835 and the billing company as TRANSACT-BILL.COM. I traced out TRANSACT-BILL.COM through whois to check ip addresses and server locations and got this:
WHOIS results for TRANSACT-BILL.COM
I typed 866-265-7835 into google and came across numbers of people whose credit cards were defrauded. The entity billing these cards transact-bill.com run though whois data bases gave me the below information. The ip addy is in Montreal. I was given a number of 514-733-2716 after I called the 866-265-7835 number. The 514 number is in Montreal.
The unrestricteddownloads.com website is registered through godaddy.com and lists a phone number of 480-624-2599. I am contacting godaddy as I write this to you. I am contacting godaddy to report that individuals using godaddy to register their site unrestrictedownloads.com are running it as a criminal enterprise.
Going to the TRANSACT-BILL.COM redirects you over to marketbill.com. I ran marketbill.com through the whois database on networksolutions.com website and got this:
Registrant:
Market Engines
48/4 amery street Sliema
SLMSLM 1701
XXXXX, XXXXX ---
MT
35621423255
Domain Name: MARKETBILL.COM
Administrative Contact:
DNS, Admin [email protected]
48/4 amery street Sliema
SLMSLM 1701
XXXXX, XXXXX ---
MT
35621423255
Technical Contact:
DNS, Admin [email protected]
48/4 amery street Sliema
SLMSLM 1701
XXXXX, XXXXX ---
MT
35621423255
Record last updated 11-17-2009 10:45:45 AM
Record expires on 04-19-2010
Record created on 04-19-2005
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.HSPROVIDER.NET 63.243.188.2
NS2.HSPROVIDER.NET 63.243.188.3
Current Registrar: DIRECTNIC, LTD
IP Address: 63.243.188.109 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: CA(CANADA)-QUEBEC-MONTREAL
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: IIS 6
Lock Status: clientDeleteProhibited
WebSite Status: Active
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Secure: No
Ecommerce: Yes
Traffic Ranking: 4
Data as of: 22-Apr-2008
Registrant:
Market engines
48/4 Amery Street
SLMSLM 1701 MT
Sliema, 1701
MT
Domain name: TRANSACT-BILL.COM
Administrative Contact:
DNS, Admin [email protected]
48/4 Amery Street
SLMSLM 1701 MT
Sliema, 1701
MT
+35621423255
Technical Contact:
DNS, Admin [email protected]
48/4 Amery Street
SLMSLM 1701 MT
Sliema, 1701
MT
+35621423255
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 22-Dec-2009.
Record expires on 22-Dec-2011.
Record created on 22-Dec-2009.
Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.SYSTEMDNS.COM
NS3.SYSTEMDNS.COM
NS1.SYSTEMDNS.COM
Domain status: ok
Current Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
IP Address: 64.99.64.37 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: CA(CANADA)-ONTARIO-TORONTO
Lock Status: ok
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Data as of: 23-Apr-2008
These individuals are using the unrestrictedownloads.com as one the main vehicles to defraud individuals. Godaddy should have some type of records on these individuals to aid in tracing out who these people maybe. It looks to me like Russian organized criminal enterprise. The money they stole was off of an unemployment benefits card issued to me from the state of Missouri in the United States. I live in Kansas City, Missouri.
These people are defrauding Canadians, Americans and others out of millions of dollars. I don't have much love for parasites like this. It would be fantastic if you could shut them down, seize their assets and put them in prison where they can not bother anyone ever again.
Thank You,
Sincerely,
Steve Jolinski
(816) 372-8015
[email protected]
www.kansascitycomputers.com
www.keywordbibleprecepts.org
--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Customer Service <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Customer Service <[email protected]>
Subject: Membership Confirmation
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:38 AM
This is an automatic email. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!
Dear steven jolinski
Welcome to the worlds greatest file sharing software website on the internet!
Please print out this page for your records.
Billing information
Membership type:Unlimited Access - 7-day Trial with Optional Lifetime Purchase for a total of 1.99 $ USD
Grand total: 1.99 $ USD
The charge will appear on your credit card as TRANSACT-BILL.COM
Membership information
Order ID #: 150681100113213815887
To login please use the email address used for signing up.
Username: Username : [email protected]
Password: Password : 939557
To begin enjoying your membership, please go to http://www.unrestrictedownloads.com
Sincerely,
Customer Support department