carney-construction.com another agricultural equipment scam

This is the latest in a series of web sites using the name Carney and an address in Staffordshire. The name and address is that of a genuine agricultural engineer and farm, however the farm and the carney's have no knowledge or connection with these sites.

This URL was disclosed by a visitor to the farm who had traveled from France to view equipment.

I will continue to report these sites to the domain hosts and to the local and national law enforcement, in the hope that eventually something will be done to stop this scam permanently.

http://www.carney-construction.com/

carney-construction.com

I really wished that I could believe that there was a chance the UK government and/or police would do something about these scammers nogginthenog, but so far they appear more interested in conducting their own playground spats with each other. I've added as much detail as possible to increase the chances of any potential victim being led here if they perform a Google search. Of course, the details they quote are either fake or stolen from an innocent party.

BISHTON LANE
WOLSELEY BRIDGE , STAFFORD
ST18 0XD
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1213 189 695

Fax: +44 1785 508 012

carney-construction.com
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Referral URL http://www.NOW.CN
Status clientTransferProhibited
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Registered On October 24, 2013
Updated On November 21, 2013
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Dear Valued Customer,

Domain name: carney-construction.com
Status: Active

Protection Status: public
( make contact info private at http://www.now.cn/domain/domainPrivate.php )

Registrant:
Name: Joe Brennan
Organization: N/A
Address: 91 Argyll Road
City: Llandegwning
Province/state: GWYNEDD
Country: GB
Postal Code: LL53 5BJ

Administrative Contact:
Name: Joe Brennan
Organization: N/A
Address: 91 Argyll Road
City: Llandegwning
Province/state: GWYNEDD
Country: GB
Postal Code: LL53 5BJ
Phone: +44.7787075861
Fax: +44.7787075861
Email: @carney-construction.com

Technical Contact:
Name: Joe Brennan
Organization: N/A
Address: 91 Argyll Road
City: Llandegwning
Province/state: GWYNEDD
Country: GB
Postal Code: LL53 5BJ

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Update: 2013-11-22
Expired: 2014-10-24

The scammers are East European and they target victims on the continent and will be spamming European construction and farming vehicle website with details of their fraudulent offers, using the website to attempt to support their crime.

Reading the terms and conditions on fraudulent websites is often a good laugh though, as the intended victims will not be likely to be good English speakers, they probably won't notice. In defining the parties to the contract in excruciating detail it omits to define itself, and then doesn't correctly quote its own name.

The supplier will sell the Goods like is described on the web site.

That's sounds like my Arnie impersonation.

I always check the dial codes to see whether the telephone i s where the company is.

This site has a Birmingham ish telephone number
and a Stafford fax number.

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Another letter received by the farmer whose identity has been stolen today from a victim in Greece asking when the tractor they placed a substantial deposit on would be delivered.

Doing my best to get this site closed down ASAP.

One of the most important things to do is to ensure that the bank account involved in the fraud is reported and shut down. It's one thing we do our best to arrange by either contacting the bank or the authorities. One reason for targeting foreign victims may be that there is less likelihood of this happening (or it won't happen so quickly) with foreign authorities being involved.

The scammers' most valuable resource is their money laundering accounts and getting them closed down creates the greatest problems for them.