Job offer spam: vonateks.com

vonateks.com is a fraud
The following job offer was sent out as spam by an organized crime group. The domain vonateks.com was only created 3 days before the spam was sent. The purpose of this job offer is to trick people into helping move stolen money out of the country for the gang. The fake jobs site jobsfromabroad.com (which is a rip-off of jobpilot.de, a legitimate job site) was registered the same day as vonateks.com. The domain of another legitimate job site, jobsabroad.com was used in a fake sender address:

From: "Gopher" &t;infodumbbells@jobsabroad.com>
To: <emailaddress1>; <emailaddress2>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 April, 2005 9:22
Subject: Work from your home for international company (primitive)


Dear recipient,
Vonateks Electronics - a leading manufacturer of high resolution videowalls
and projection cubes, is once again beginning an unprecedented campaign of
employing new staff in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. 

Due to our exploding growth, we are further expanding our business 
to the European and South Pacific regions of the world. 
During our last employment campaign we successfully
employed hundreds of Representatives and Couriers. And now we are offering you
one more opportunity to earn extra cash working with us.

We are looking for honest, responsible, hard-working people to operate with our
company in your particular region. These openings are part-time positions with the
opportunity to make 1000-3000 USD per month working 2-4 hours per day with us.

Please visit our web site Jobsfromabroad.com for more details regarding these vacancies.

This is what it says at the site:

Vonateks Electronics

Sales Representatives/Processing Manager

Job Location: United Kingdom, Australia & New Zealand

Job Description:
Vonateks Electronics - a leading manufacturer of high resolution 
video and graphics processors, videowalls and projection cubes is 
looking again for responsible, honest and motivated people in UK, 
Australia and NZ to be Sales Representatives/Processing Managers 
in your particular region and receive payments from our clients. 
Agents comissions - 5% of the total amount collected by you from 
our clients. You may use your existing bank account or open a new 
one for these purposes to collect payments from our clients. More 
details can be found on Vonateks website.

Job Requirements:
You should be aged between 21 and 67, male or female. You should 
be a resident of a country where you reside. Your location plays 
no role at all. You should have internet access, phone number and 
about 10-15 hours per week to dedicate towards the job. 
There are no fees or monetary expenses for you whatsoever. You have 
to be honest and independable. We are offering you a good opportunity 
to earn some extra cash working from home.

How To Apply:
Please visit www.vonateks.com for online application

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Contact Information
Vonateks Electronics 
JungGye 1st Complex,
231-2 Jing 3dong, 
Seoul KOREA
TEL : +82-2-935-4416 FAX : +82-2-935-4449
E-MAIL:........... contact@vonateks.com

Posted: April 20, 2005

WHOIS details for domain "vonateks.com":

Request: vonateks.com
from whois.crsnic.net:43 [cached Wed Apr 27 04:29:47 2005 UTC]
from whois.opensrs.net:43 [cached Wed Apr 27 04:29:48 2005 UTC]
Registrant:
 na
 21 rue Fabre Eglantine
 paris, fr 
 FR

 Domain name: VONATEKS.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Chretien, Bertrand  versace@safe-mail.net
    21 rue Fabre Eglantine
    paris, fr 
    FR
    +1.44112333
 Technical Contact:
    Chretien, Bertrand  versace@safe-mail.net
    21 rue Fabre Eglantine
    paris, fr 
    FR
    +1.44112333


 Registration Service Provider:
    Web-Artel JSC, migros@bk.ru
    +73422909186
    +73422909186 (fax)
    This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
    DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 24-Apr-2005.
 Record expires on 24-Apr-2006.
 Record created on 24-Apr-2005.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.VONATEKS.COM   24.74.63.196
    NS2.VONATEKS.COM   24.17.46.253
    NS3.VONATEKS.COM   67.165.166.140
    NS4.VONATEKS.COM   24.99.226.114
    NS5.VONATEKS.COM   67.167.35.111


 Domain status: ACTIVE

WHOIS details for domain "jobsfromabroad.com":

Request: jobsfromabroad.com
connected to whois.crsnic.net [198.41.3.54:43] ... 
connected to whois.opensrs.net [216.40.33.170:43] ... 
Registrant:
 na
 21 rue Fabre Eglantine
 paris, fr 
 FR

 Domain name: JOBSFROMABROAD.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Chretien, Bertrand  versace@safe-mail.net
    21 rue Fabre Eglantine
    paris, fr 
    FR
    +1.44112333
 Technical Contact:
    Chretien, Bertrand  versace@safe-mail.net
    21 rue Fabre Eglantine
    paris, fr 
    FR
    +1.44112333


 Registration Service Provider:
    Web-Artel JSC, migros@bk.ru
    +73422909186
    +73422909186 (fax)
    This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
    DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 24-Apr-2005.
 Record expires on 24-Apr-2006.
 Record created on 24-Apr-2005.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.JOBSFROMABROAD.COM   67.173.94.249
    NS2.JOBSFROMABROAD.COM   12.207.24.168
    NS3.JOBSFROMABROAD.COM   24.3.164.60
    NS4.JOBSFROMABROAD.COM   12.207.80.167
    NS5.JOBSFROMABROAD.COM   67.162.30.177


 Domain status: ACTIVE