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Technical Investigation of Job Scammers: AdminSolutionsGroup, GoodGradesNow, TooSpoiled and Others
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Technical Investigation of Job Scammers: AdminSolutionsGroup, GoodGradesNow, TooSpoiled and Others
Job and Recruiting Emails:
Reporting on AdminSolutionsGroup.Net, TooSpoiled.com, GoodGradesNow.com, EbandSearch.com and others
If the job scammers contact you with a login, as they do many victims, you will generally be presented ads for online colleges - see this screenshot we obtained by logging in. We did some more investigation. See below.
Do you have a resume posted online? We'd like to hear from you about your experiences recruiting emails that turned out to be scams or misleading - click here to write us. . We suspect these are possibly a new wave of identity theft attacks.
Technical Investigation
Email headers show there is a connection with www.kasambacareers.com, which is also accused by other websites of being a scam data miner. The only information that is publicly available is from the registrar for their website that shows "Vanthom Designs" as the owner of the website, which was registered on November 14, 2006, and uses an anonymous registration:
| Current Registrar: | NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. |
| IP Address: | 198.64.138.41 (ARIN & RIPE IP search) |
| IP Location: | US(UNITED STATES)-CONNECTICUT-BRANFORD |
| Record Type: | Domain Name |
| Server Type: | IIS 6 |
| Lock Status: | clientTransferProhibited |
| Web Site Status: | Active |
| DMOZ | no listings |
| Y! Directory: | see listings |
| Web Site Title: | AdminSolutionsGroup |
| Secure: | No |
| E-commerce: | No |
| Traffic Ranking: | 4 |
| Data as of: | 27-Nov-2006 |
What to do, if you DID fill out their form:
Report it to the following government agencies:
- Forward the email you received to the Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov
- Contact the FBI (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation) at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
- Contact your State Attorneys General . Your state Attorney General or local office of consumer protection is also listed in the government pages of your telephone book
Other Jobs Scams
There are a variety of sleazy scams that look, at first glance, like legitimate job offers. Before you write back to them, pause a moment and read about the scams below!
Some of the more common job scams are
