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GreyAmadeus
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:17 am |
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Require some advice please
Somebody claiming to be from this company contacted a work colleague asking for bank account details to make a donation (to our charity). No bank account was given but now our logo appears on their site.
An email went round warning of a suspicious phone call and it sent alarm bells ringing.
I think this may be fraudulent for the following reasons:
+No contact address
+UK based (due to 0800 freephone number) but not in companies house EDIT: Is listed in Companies House as 'Dissolved'
+Ask for bank details to register - unencrypted form
+Unaffiliated whois and short registration period
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Domain name:
zamstar.co.uk
Registrant:
Michelle Badrock
Registrant type:
Unknown
Registrant's address:
63a Kempenfeldt Ave
Sorrento
WA
6 020
Australia
Registered through:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.
URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Registrar:
Key-Systems GmbH [Tag = KEY-SYSTEMS-DE]
URL: http://www.Key-Systems.net
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 17-Sep-2009
Renewal date: 17-Sep-2011
Last updated: 02-Jun-2010
Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers:
ns1.theplanet.com
ns2.theplanet.com
Disclaimer
WHOIS lookup made at 11:06:05 05-Apr-2011
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Also, no other web presence
Can I get a few opinions please - want to be careful as this is related to something that happened at work
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woody999
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:58 pm |
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www.zamstar.co.uk |
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DoraTheExplorer
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:31 pm |
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GreyAmadeus
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:06 pm |
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Hmmm, I guess you are right Dora.
Just felt like a needed a second opinion as it was a real curve ball in terms of my day-to-day work
Happy for this thread to be moved if there are no other opinions. I'm going to keep an eye on this and do some more personal investigation but I'll formally disassociate my interest in this site from this forum as it's not definitely 419/scam |
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"We have had enough of these irregularities and we are not ready to play along with your antics anymore!" - Robert Lukman
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ratter
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:21 pm |
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^^^ you might contact the restaurants and/or the other charities featured on the site and see what they have to say. |
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DoraTheExplorer
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Sat May 14, 2011 5:48 pm |
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I have looked at this multiple times and while I don't think it is our 419 AFF, I don't think it is completely legit either. Probably could/should be moved to Misc Scams for now. |
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alex123123
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B8er
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:31 am |
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And what is your connection to the site? Or are you another of those "independent" one-post members who just happen to search on a site and post good things about them on forums, contradicting what everyone else says.
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Kronuk
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:36 am |
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Except that the company is not listed with companies house and there is no registered charity with that name either.
Unless you have the charity number?
The website seems very sketchy as there are no real details given. You cant see which restraunts are part of the scheme, unlike other dining cards so that doesnt inspire any confidence either.
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Kronuk
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:10 am |
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Sorry for the DP
But there is also www.zamstar.com which is almost identical to the .co.uk page.
The company on that is Zamstar Card Ltd but this is listed at companies house
Definately very fishy though unless www.zamstar.co.uk is a clone of zamstar.com for scam purposes and zamstar are un aware?
Although there is also www.zamstar-uk.co.uk |
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B8er
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:31 am |
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To me all 3 sites look dodgy.
The WhoIs for zamstar.com shows that it was registered in December for one year and that the registrant used a proxy service to hide their identity.
The WhoIs for zamstar-uk.co.uk shows that it was registered in November for the minimum 2 years by someone in the Philippines.
Add to that the lack of physical address on the site (a requirement for UK businesses) and the unsecure login/registration pages and they don't look good.
They may not be AFF (and so out of this site's scope), but I wouldn't trust them with any money.
Thanks to alex123123 for bringing these sites back to our attention and improving their position in the Google results |
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Kronuk
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Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:37 am |
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Thanks to alex123123 for bringing these sites back to our attention and improving their position in the Google results Laughing |
Just spotted it on page 4. Interestingly ahead of the only thing that makes the site look legit which is at the top of page 6 and is
[url]twitter.com/#!/zamstarinside[/url]
I dont have time to look into the resturants being quoted on the feed but that may lend a clue to the legitamacy of it. |
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