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Tuesday 1 December 2009

techonsupport.com, click4rescue.com, pcrescueworld.com: SupportOnClick revisited

Following on from the SupportOnClick scam, it would appear folks, that we've got a new contender for the worlds worst scammer award.

Reports are flowing online, of techonsupport.com, pulling the same scam as the folks over at supportonclick.com (other sites they're known to use are listed below. I first found out about them due to a comment over at DigitalToast.co.uk (I'd not noticed this one until a few seconds ago), but research suggests they've been doing this for a heck of alot longer, with the earliest report I can find, dating back to June/July this year;

3 weeks ago

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137600.html

4 weeks ago

http://www.wired2tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&p=1580
http://www.silobreaker.com/spoof-calls-to-uk-numbers-from-techonsupport-5_2262723359701729304

Others

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090726184940AA3DjPK

http://www.hibeesbounce.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1097866

Registrant information for techonsupport.com

Registrant :
Name: GloWebSoftware GloWebSoftware
Organization: Glo Web Software
Address: 9A Gariahat Road,
City: Kolkata
State: West Bengal
Postal Code: 700029
Country: IN
Phone: 2093465
Fax:
Email: gloweb@gmail.com

Domain : techonsupport.com

Administrative Contact :
Name: GloWebSoftware GloWebSoftware
Organization: Glo Web Software
Address: 9A Gariahat Road,
City: Kolkata
State: West Bengal
Postal Code: 700029
Country: IN
Phone: 2093465
Fax:
Email: gloweb@gmail.com

Technical Contact :
Name: GloWebSoftware GloWebSoftware
Organization: Glo Web Software
Address: 9A Gariahat Road,
City: Kolkata
State: West Bengal
Postal Code: 700029
Country: IN
Phone: 2093465
Fax:
Email: gloweb@gmail.com

Created on.......: 2008-12-30
Expired on.......: 2009-12-30
Last updated on..: 2008-12-30

Domain servers :

Name Server: ns1.webmasterspack.net
Name Server: ns2.webmasterspack.net



Other sites these scammers are known to use are;

pcrescueworld.com

Registration Service Provided By: CAREER HUNTS
Contact: +91.3332490407

Domain Name: PCRESCUEWORLD.COM

Registrant:
Career Hunts
Kolkatabajar (kolkatabajar@yahoo.com)
Kolkata
Kolkata
West Bengal,700092
IN
Tel. +033.32490407

Creation Date: 04-Nov-2009
Expiration Date: 04-Nov-2012

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.kolkatabazaar.org
ns1.kolkatabazaar.org

Administrative Contact:
Career Hunts
Kolkatabajar (kolkatabajar@yahoo.com)
Kolkata
Kolkata
West Bengal,700092
IN
Tel. +033.32490407

Technical Contact:
Career Hunts
Kolkatabajar (kolkatabajar@yahoo.com)
Kolkata
Kolkata
West Bengal,700092
IN
Tel. +033.32490407

Billing Contact:
Career Hunts
Kolkatabajar (kolkatabajar@yahoo.com)
Kolkata
Kolkata
West Bengal,700092
IN
Tel. +033.32490407

Status:ACTIVE


click4rescue.com

Domain Name: CLICK4RESCUE.COM

Registrant:
n/a
dipak lal (shapeyourimazination@gmail.com)
cr road no -10, q. no L4 -9, agrico
jamshedpur - 9
jharkhand
jamshedpur
Jharkhand,831009
IN
Tel. +657.2432845

Administrative Contact:
n/a
dipak lal (shapeyourimazination@gmail.com)
cr road no -10, q. no L4 -9, agrico
jamshedpur - 9
jharkhand
jamshedpur
Jharkhand,831009
IN
Tel. +657.2432845

Technical Contact:
n/a
dipak lal (shapeyourimazination@gmail.com)
cr road no -10, q. no L4 -9, agrico
jamshedpur - 9
jharkhand
jamshedpur
Jharkhand,831009
IN
Tel. +657.2432845

Billing Contact:
n/a
dipak lal (shapeyourimazination@gmail.com)
cr road no -10, q. no L4 -9, agrico
jamshedpur - 9
jharkhand
jamshedpur
Jharkhand,831009
IN
Tel. +657.2432845

Creation Date: 24-Sep-2009
Expiration Date: 24-Sep-2010

Domain servers in listed order:
ns7.anmoul.com
ns9.anmoul.com

Status:ACTIVE

Registration Service Provided By: ANMOUL.COM
Contact: +91.6572362335
Website: http://www.anmoul.com


Phone numbers associated them

01865 521065
01865 521001

If you know of any other sites associated with them, or indeed, associated with SupportOnClick, please let me know.

If you've been conned by them, report it!

For those in the UK/Ireland:
https://secure.consumerdirect.gov.uk/reportascam.aspx
http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/

For those in the US:

BBB (Better Business Bureau)
http://www.bbb.org/

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
http://fbi.gov

For those in Australia:

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
http://www.accc.gov.au

/update 02-12-2009 14:04

I've been informed recently, of another site associated with these scammers;

onlinepcdoctors.com

domain: onlinepcdoctors.com
created: 23-Oct-2009
last-changed: 11-Nov-2009
registration-expiration: 23-Oct-2010

nserver: ns57.1and1.com 74.208.2.9
nserver: ns58.1and1.com 74.208.3.8

status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED

registrant-firstname: Gunjan
registrant-lastname: Poddar
registrant-organization: BusinessProDesigns
registrant-street1: J1/14, Block EP,Sector V,
registrant-pcode: 700091
registrant-state: WB
registrant-city: Kolkata
registrant-ccode: IN
registrant-phone: +91.3323572464
registrant-fax: +91.3323572465
registrant-email: ravi.kedia@limtexit.com

admin-c-firstname: Gunjan
admin-c-lastname: Poddar
admin-c-organization: BusinessProDesigns
admin-c-street1: J1/14, Block EP,Sector V,
admin-c-pcode: 700091
admin-c-state: WB
admin-c-city: Kolkata
admin-c-ccode: IN
admin-c-phone: +91.3323572464
admin-c-fax: +91.3323572465
admin-c-email: ravi.kedia@limtexit.com

tech-c-firstname: Hostmaster
tech-c-lastname: ONEANDONE
tech-c-organization: 1&1 Internet Inc.
tech-c-street1: 701 Lee Rd.
tech-c-street2: Suite 300
tech-c-pcode: 19087
tech-c-state: PA
tech-c-city: Chesterbrook
tech-c-ccode: US
tech-c-phone: +1.8774612631
tech-c-fax: +1.6105601501
tech-c-email: ravi.kedia@limtexit.com

bill-c-firstname: Hostmaster
bill-c-lastname: ONEANDONE
bill-c-organization: 1&1 Internet Inc.
bill-c-street1: 701 Lee Rd.
bill-c-street2: Suite 300
bill-c-pcode: 19087
bill-c-state: PA
bill-c-city: Chesterbrook
bill-c-ccode: US
bill-c-phone: +1.8774612631
bill-c-fax: +1.6105601501
bill-c-email: ravi.kedia@limtexit.com

2 comments:

digitaltoast said...

Really good work! Some dude in the US answered my call for a recording of the scam - this is great!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=ACD9A8922BBBFE4C

Gurprakash Singh Bhamra said...

We have suspended the Website click4rescue.com

Anmoul.Com
Team