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  by Erzmann
 
In the Linkedin social network I was contacted by Alexis Murphy a sexy young personality whom I do not personally know and whose profile seemed to me suspicious. Here's the link to this profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-murphy-b95b63a7?. This lady suggested to me a business opportunity and asked to share my mobile number. She did not share any particular information on the business opportunity in writing, but said that I will be contaced by phone shortly. First their call was done from hidden number and I missed it, the second call today was done from this phone number +7 499 703 13 64 which is a fixed line in Moscow, Russia. The person introduced himself as Vladimir Volkov the representative of a "big and famous Forex and stock Exchange broker company" and offered to me an opportunity to invest and trade on stock and Forex markets. Now what seemed suspicious to me:
1) He just droped a link to their website at my emailbox, everything else was told verbally.
2) Suggested too high return on investments -30% on average monthy.
3) The company offers to add up to 40% of invested amount as bonuses. For example, if I invest 1000 US$ they will immediately add to my account extra 300 US$. How come and why would they do it?
4) The website of this broker is http://www.tradebifo.com. As per the information obtained through Whois services, the website registered in July 2014 by a private person (not a company!), with Russian name, allegedly living in Amsterdam, with Ukrainian phone number. The website was registered for two years only.
All of this seem to be suspicious. Please advise if it is a spam or not.



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mail is associated with ~4,622,690 domains

Registrant Org Private Person was found in ~5,668,461 other domains

Registrar PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Dates Created on 2014-07-15 - Expires on 2016-07-15 - Updated on 2015-09-29

Name Server(s) DNS1.YANDEX.NET (has 31,938 domains)
DNS2.YANDEX.NET (has 31,938 domains)
IP Address 188.40.57.69 is hosted on a dedicated server

IP Location - Bayern - Nuremberg - Hetzner Online Ag
ASN AS24940 HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online GmbH (registered Jun 03, 2002)
Domain Status Registered And Active Website
Whois History 39 records have been archived since 2014-07-15

IP History 2 changes on 3 unique IP addresses over 2 years

Registrar History 1 registrar

Hosting History 2 changes on 3 unique name servers over 2 years

Whois Server whois.publicdomainregistry.com
Website
Website Title Tradebifo

Server Type Microsoft-IIS/8.5
Response Code 200
SEO Score 59%
Terms 373 (Unique: 238, Linked: 211)
Images 18 (Alt tags missing: 18)
Links 100 (Internal: 98, Outbound: 0)
Whois Record ( last updated on 2016-02-03 )
Domain Name: TRADEBIFO.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1866952064_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com
Registrar URL: http://www.publicdomainregistry.com
Updated Date: 2015-05-11T18:22:15Z
Creation Date: 2014-07-15T09:33:02Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-07-15T09:33:02Z
Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
Registrar IANA ID: 303
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Petr S Fedotov
Registrant Organization: Private Person
Registrant Street: Sadovaya 4
Registrant City: Amsterdam
Registrant State/Province: Amsterdam
Registrant Postal Code: 08296
Registrant Country: NL
Registrant Phone: +380.930508182
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Petr S Fedotov
Admin Organization: Private Person
Admin Street: Sadovaya 4
Admin City: Amsterdam
Admin State/Province: Amsterdam
Admin Postal Code: 08296
Admin Country: NL
Admin Phone: +380.930508182
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Petr S Fedotov
Tech Organization: Private Person
Tech Street: Sadovaya 4
Tech City: Amsterdam
Tech State/Province: Amsterdam
Tech Postal Code: 08296
Tech Country: NL
Tech Phone: +380.930508182
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:
Name Server: dns1.yandex.net
Name Server: dns2.yandex.net
DNSSEC:Unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-2013775952
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
  by Terminator5
 
Its a scam . We've seen quite a few fake and questionable investment websites lately .
  by AlanJones
 
And like many of the other fake investment sites we'very seen, this one claims to be registered in the Seychelles.
Oliaji Trade Centre, Francis Rachel Street, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
Mail: [email protected] Mail: [email protected]
Telephone (London, UK): +44 20 3769-1870
Telephone (Moscow, Russia): +7 495 1337475
Phone (International): +883510008210277
Feedback form
They also give a UK phone number, but no address and not surprisingly they do not appear on the FCA register, which they should do if they are operating in the Financial Services industry in the UK.
  by Erzmann
 
Thank you, guys. Especially for additional convincing arguments that I will be for sure bearing in mind.