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Monday, September 22, 2008

Mike Jenson - Gefest Inc.

 

This one is the same as Kirox Solutions. See Note 1.

Fraud.

One out of five!

International company seeks for representative in United Kingdom.
Part-time and full-time positions available.
The job is based on administrative/customer service support.
Immediate need for customer service representative seeking fun working environment, opportunity for advancement and hands on training provided.
Will be responsible for supporting sales team, and resolving customer related issues for consumer product/services company.
Great benefits. No money required (we are serious company located in Sweden, we will never ask our representatives any money in prior).
Salary:
- 3000 GBP monthly income/part-time job
- 5000 GBP monthly income/full time job
Benefits:
- No relocation required
- Comprehensive medical and life insurance
- Professional, fun and highly motivated work environment
- Outstanding benefits/compensation for full-time, permanent associates
- Competitive base pay
- TAX refund and all travel fees are repaid Please, contact our HR department at job@gefestinc.com if you are interested.
Mike Jenson
Gefest Inc.
15 mauvas str B 33,,
FI-00837 Stockholm, Sweden
139836625
REPLY DIRECTY TO: job@gefestinc.com

Important Notes :-

1. This is the last part of the Kirox Solutions fraud.

Mike Johanson
Kirox Solutions Inc.
15 mauvas str B 33,,
FI-00837 Stockholm, Sweden
+46 139836625
REPLY DIRECTY TO: job@kiroxsolutions.com

The name has changed from Johanson to Jenson and the e-mail address is now at gefestinc.com. But the spelling of directly is still wrong.

2. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

3. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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19 Comments:

Blogger Bigblue said...

Thanks for the warning. I got the mail but couldn't find the company on the web so it was looking uncertain. Luckily I came across this blog.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:53:00 am  
Blogger keithb said...

I was the same, so I thought I would search for it and correct it is not there so I'm pleased I found this. A lot of people do get sucked in and loose lots of money and I can never understand why they do it!! I do get loads of these e-mails daily and would like to know how to stop it!!...Regards KB

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:49:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just had this e-mail! Glad I searched it! Cheers!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:48:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I done the same as the rest. Thanks!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:04:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Blimey..found this blog just in time..very convincing email as I'm looking for pastures new was nearly sucked in...thanks

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:48:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,

Thought this was too good to be true, but I could do with £3k per month :)

Other inaccuracies in the mail:
The way they've written the address, is not the Swedish way of writing an address, it is normally Roadname (Number), not the Engligh (number) Roadname. And they've given the Englidh "Street" not the Swedish "-vägen," or "-gatan"

The Area code is non existent, not even in any way a Swedish area code.

Stockholm telephone area code is (0)8, not (0)1.

Just to add my 2c.

(Reference: my Swedish wife)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:39:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad I searched google for gefestinc.com and came up with this blog as #1 entry - excellent.

I then did a check on WHOIS through www.networksolutions.com and found the following information:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: GEFESTINC.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: NS1.TAILPAIN.COM
Name Server: NS2.TAILPAIN.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 22-sep-2008
Creation Date: 22-sep-2008
Expiration Date: 22-sep-2009

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:50:35 UTC <<<

So created only yesterday! Says it all. I then looked at Tailpain.com:

Registration Service Provided By: SPIRITDOMAINS/IAREGISTRY
Contact: +1.8662720938
Website: http://www.spiritdomains.com

Domain Name: TAILPAIN.COM

Registrant:
n/a
DEBORAH NOBLE (deborahnoble@email.com)
310 riverside dr
new york
New York,10025
US
Tel. +212.8641590

Creation Date: 07-Apr-2008
Expiration Date: 07-Apr-2009

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.tailpain.com
ns1.tailpain.com


Administrative Contact:
n/a
DEBORAH NOBLE (deborahnoble@email.com)
310 riverside dr
new york
New York,10025
US
Tel. +212.8641590

Technical Contact:
n/a
DEBORAH NOBLE (deborahnoble@email.com)
310 riverside dr
new york
New York,10025
US
Tel. +212.8641590

Billing Contact:
n/a
DEBORAH NOBLE (deborahnoble@email.com)
310 riverside dr
new york
New York,10025
US
Tel. +212.8641590

Status:ACTIVE

Does she need to know about her "client"? That's all folks. I leave it up to you. Keep blogging!

John (in UK)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:03:00 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

Yeah picked this up today as well. Mine came from Mike Jenson (nfxindefinitely@beshoffmotorcars.com)
but talked about a different company (gefast inc) on the bottom

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:07:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well! White pages gives an address for a Deborah A Noble at the 310 Riverside Drive apt 310 address.
Either she is the spammer or someone has stolen and is using her identity. I will send an email to the New York police to advise them that there is a problem.

Phil (UK)

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:02:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for this blog - just like taking references, too few people do their homework. I'm grateful that you popped up so speedily on Google.

Cheers

Chris

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:41:00 pm  
Blogger GIA said...

I have just had this email and thought I'd better check it out and guess what another fraudster.
Thanks friends

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:45:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for this detail. I recieved the email and was interested. Fortunately I always check things out when they come via email. Its about time these fraudsters were tracked down and prosecuted.
Kev

Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:33:00 am  
Blogger Gary said...

Hi, I echo everything that everyone has said so far, I had the same Spam myself and did a search to get here,

not everyone that gets help or reads this blog will leave a comment, so, why don't we just return fire, in mass, whether you leave a message here or not,

You can send text's to a land line, which is read out slowly at the other end by a robot like voice usually, most annoying if you get a lot of them,

John C, on this page, was good enough to search out the "who is" web details of the registrant,

Obviously I can't advise anyone to do this at all, if you did send a text like;

Dear Deborah Noble at 310 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, New York, do you realise that you may be linked to a web site address / domain and also Spam e-mail's that more than likely are fraudulent

to 01 212 8641590

it would be up to you,


or an e-mail to
deborahnoble@email.com

and then put a block on this address in your e-mail filter

..... but ......
what goes around comes around .....

Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:11:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

awesome blogging, and glad it came up top of the list on google. Felt it looked dodgy and as usual it is!

Thanks again

Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:03:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanx guys and girls great job another scammer to add to the thousands but got this because i take little notice if them
colin uk

Friday, September 26, 2008 2:51:00 pm  
Blogger stevemac said...

Read this blog with interest, but could someone explain how the scam/fraud works.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:39:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just like the rest, searched Google for gefestinc.com and came to you.

Really well done - you're doing a real service. Thanks

Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:11:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like everyone else researched via google and come to you. Thanks for all the help you offer - keep up the good work.

Friday, October 03, 2008 3:56:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like everyone else, i received an email from this 'company' and so i thought i'd do a quick search to see what i can find out and came to your site. Thank you for the insight.

Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:17:00 pm  

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