Scam Tip Report #9321 - SEO Scammer poses as Volunteer Teacher for At Risk Youth - Scams for Links
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  | Anonymous Somewhere in United States 2013-04-23 23:40:16 Charity scam |  SEO Scammer poses as Volunteer Teacher for At Risk Youth - Scams for Links
The fake P2E \"Pathways to Empowerment\" scam site at http://www.pathwaytoempowerment.com has no contact information listed, which should be your first clue. Domain owner his hidden through privacy blocks but their ISP resides in the UK (see below for domain info). The person, likely a disreputable Search Engine Optimization company or individual, carried the scam far enough to volley emails back and forth in order to win confidence of the target victim, and get links to their \"money\" sites. At least two of the sites the scammer is trying to promote are here: http://www.psprint.com/resources/historic-printing/ Registrant: Deluxe Enterprise Operations Inc. Jim Glockner 3660 Victoria St North Shoreview, MN 55126 US Phone: +1.6517871832 Email: hostmaster@deluxe.com Domain Name: psprint.com Administrative Contact: Deluxe Enterprise Operations Inc. Jim Glockner 3660 Victoria St North Shoreview, MN 55126 US Phone: +1.6517871832 Email: hostmaster@deluxe.com Technical Contact: Deluxe Enterprise Operations Inc. Akmal Zeb 3660 Victoria St North Shoreview, MN 55126 US Phone: +1.6514908081 Email: hostmaster@deluxe.com Registrar of Record: Hostopia.com Inc. d/b/a Aplus.net, www.aplus.net Record last updated on 2012-04-26 Record expires on 2014-03-01 Record created on 1997-02-28 Domain servers in listed order: ns1.fastmetrics.com ns5.fastmetrics.com ns2.fastmetrics.com http://www.onlineloancalculator.org/resources/home-and-garden-calculators.php The owner of the domain www.onlineloancalculator.org is hidden through private registration. The owners of these domains should be aware their SEO company is deceiving others to get links, which is NOT how quality, reputable Search Engine ranking is attained. Quite the opposite. The site owners will likely see a drastic drop in traffic before too long thanks to the scammer they\'ve hired to \"help\" them succeed. Owner of the IP block used by the scammer: > dig pathwaytoempowerment.com ; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R3 <<>> pathwaytoempowerment.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52897 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;pathwaytoempowerment.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: pathwaytoempowerment.com. 1381 IN A 46.20.235.51 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: pathwaytoempowerment.com. 746 IN NS dns1.name-services.com. pathwaytoempowerment.com. 746 IN NS dns5.name-services.com. pathwaytoempowerment.com. 746 IN NS dns3.name-services.com. pathwaytoempowerment.com. 746 IN NS dns2.name-services.com. pathwaytoempowerment.com. 746 IN NS dns4.name-services.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns1.name-services.com. 107 IN A 98.124.192.1 dns2.name-services.com. 108 IN A 98.124.197.1 dns3.name-services.com. 108 IN A 98.124.193.1 dns4.name-services.com. 107 IN A 98.124.194.1 dns5.name-services.com. 107 IN A 98.124.196.1 > whois 46.20.235.51 # The following results may also be obtained via: # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=46.20.235.51?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2 # NetRange: 46.0.0.0 - 46.255.255.255 CIDR: 46.0.0.0/8 OriginAS: NetName: 46-RIPE NetHandle: NET-46-0-0-0-0 Parent: NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois RegDate: 2009-09-29 Updated: 2009-09-30 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-46-0-0-0-0 OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre OrgId: RIPE Address: P.O. Box 10096 City: Amsterdam StateProv: PostalCode: 1001EB Country: NL RegDate: Updated: 2011-09-24 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/RIPE ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43 OrgAbuseHandle: RNO29-ARIN OrgAbuseName: RIPE NCC Operations OrgAbusePhone: +31 20 535 4444 OrgAbuseEmail: hostmaster@ripe.net OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/RNO29-ARIN OrgTechHandle: RNO29-ARIN OrgTechName: RIPE NCC Operations OrgTechPhone: +31 20 535 4444 OrgTechEmail: hostmaster@ripe.net OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/RNO29-ARIN % Information related to \'46.20.235.0 - 46.20.235.63\' inetnum: 46.20.235.0 - 46.20.235.63 netname: MELBOURNE-CUST-XAVV descr: See AS39451 for contact details country: GB admin-c: DF1782-RIPE tech-c: DF1782-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: MNT-MELBOURNE source: RIPE # Filtered person: Daniel Foster address: Melbourne Server Hosting Ltd address: Turing House address: Archway address: Manchester, UK mnt-by: MNT-MELBOURNE phone: +44 161 232 0001 nic-hdl: DF1782-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered % Abuse contact for \'46.20.235.0 - 46.20.235.63\' is \'abuse@melbourne.co.uk\' | |||||
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