Anyone know anything about globalmoneytransfers.org?

A friend of mine has been sent some invitations to attend a conference in London, put on by some outfit called Global Consumer Money Transfers. Their website (which I can't access for some reason) is:

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Has anyone heard of this company? Is it a scam? Any other info?

Google sisn't turn up much excet a few news.admin.net-abuse.sightings... Does that mean it's a scam, or just thet they have been spamming people?

Many thanks. AL

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The domain name was registered in June 2005 and the owner hides behind an agent called the "Privacy Protection Service, Inc" in the USA. They don't have a Web server (which is why you can't access it) and their mail server is located in Moscow although it's not possible to send it email in the usual way because the domain name has been removed from the DNS.

The domain name has the status of "Client Hold" which means that the registrar has set the status so the domain name is removed from the zone file - meaning that no Internet services, including e-mail and Web sites, are available for this domain name.

Draw your own conclusions and bear in mind that a common scam operated by the Russian mafia, among others, is to recruit unwitting agents to launder stolen money. The agents are told that the company is a legitimate business involved in transferring money around the world for its clients and that they need to recruit agents who can make large amounts of money for a few hours' work a week. The agents, astonishingly enough, believe this.

It actually works by using phishing emails and key-logging trojans to take control of people's online bank accounts. They then transfer the contents to the bank accounts of their agents, who are asked to withdraw trhe money in cash, keep 20% for their trouble and remit the rest to Eastern Europe via Western Union money-transfer service, which is untraceable. The agents think they're on to a good thing until their doors are kicked in at four in the morning and they find themselves arrested, charged with fraud, theft and money laundering and sentenced to ten years.

globalmoneytransfers.org may, of course, be a highly respected and legitimate business. I've no idea what they do.

Mike.

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Brilliant reply. Thank you very much for your input. Very helpful.

AL

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AL

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