The Trail of Illegality
Fake customer service sites, four unregistered financial intermediaries and forex brokers, an Illuminati group offering financial freedom in exchange for a subscription, an offer to obtain an illegal driver’s license with no restrictions for the European Union without any exam or qualification, a fake fan club of a Mexican singer, multiple copies of bank phishing websites and Tax and Electoral Databases that are being trafficked on the web; all this describes the activities of a group dedicated to fraud, extortion, deception and identity theft, dark facts that provide Noti.Group readers a window into the insides of a criminal group with international reach.
A source provided the Investigative news team of Noti.Group with unprecedented access to an ongoing investigation of a criminal network that involves individuals based in Europe, Asia and America, that operate behind the scenes creating a world parallel to our daily reality and that attempts to separate victims from their hard earned money, who without suspicion and unwillingly give away their data, their credit card and their personal information on sites that at first glance seem legitimate.
After analysing all the information contained in the investigation and after a careful editorial examination that included endless chat sessions, interviews, information exchanges with authorities and a careful and thorough technological audit, Noti.Group reveals to the public, in several articles a world rarely seen from the inside, revealing the internal operation of these criminal groups.
It is not strange to read the incessant phishing warnings from our banks, or the identity theft warnings that Noti.Group has covered in the past, but it is very rarely possible to have access the interior of these criminal organizations to understand how they operate, understanding their modus operandi will reduce our readers’ risk of becoming one more victim of these organized crime groups.
The Hostings Companies that offer a legal paradise to defraud.
Every website needs to be hosted on a server to be seen on the Internet, every server has to be connected to a business Backbone and belong to a registered and regulated company in order to connect and offer its services to those who need to host a web page.
In theory this is done closely following the letter of the law on countries such as the United States or those within the European Union which are regulated extensively, however, there are sites on the Internet that promise to provide hosting services for any page without asking questions.
A tempting offer
The structuring of these frauds and scams starts with two hosting companies located in the US that relate to the investigation to which Noti.Group had access to, the hostings offer a service beyond reach that is difficult to track by authorities, the Hosts called Bitcoin Webhosting and Domains4Bitcoins promises their clients absolute confidentiality and services within the dark web.
The entire transaction is made in exchange for Bitcoins, an anonymous digital cryptocurrency with which you can buy a “dedicated” hosting Service or a shared hosting services in 10 different locations within the United States and the European Union without the need to provide any identification or data that links it to you.
Our journalistic investigation team contacted the Bitcoin Web hosting site posing as a client, to obtain information about the company and understand the services they offer online, we were informed in the online chat that the “official” name of the company is bitcoinwebhosting, and the chat agent indicated that it was registered in Los Angeles, California.
The Noti.Group investigation team searched the company in the California Business Registry without identifying any firm with this name, Noti.Group also found no data on the company’s location in open sources and the phone number used is apparently an Internet Number in the United States +14055090775 is seemingly registered by a third party.
Our team expressly asked after a long exchange if it was possible to host illegal content on their servers, specifically copyright infringing content, the “agent” on the other side of the chat confirmed that “Yes” this is possible as long as child pornography is not included within the server.
The investigation identifies more than 50 sites running on a single Server, a server divided with special software so that customers who have purchased the service may perceive that it is independent and that access to the servers is only possible by the client, however, the company does have full access to them, information that was knowingly omitted to us in multiple Chat sessions.
The Agent also informed that no identification is needed to hire any of their services.
According to the information that Noti.Group had access to, the website is registered under an alias, the domain is registered at 1712 Pioneer Ave. Ste 1774 in the city of Cheyenne in the State of Wyoming and provides the telephone number above aforementioned. This organization is in fact a branch of US based entity.
Based on the information that the editorial team had access to, the server is actually owned by a third party who hires it using a false identity with an Irish company named Digiweb Ltd. that publishes its address in the IDA Business & Technology Park, in the community of Dundalk, Co. Louth, in Ireland.
Digiweb was previously involved in massive copyright infringement of movie and TV content on an enormous scale as per reports from several media outlets.
We reached to the IDA in order to confirm if Digiweb was in fact based there since the information available at google maps we had acess to doesn’t provide a clear view of their office or Computing Centers, we received no response from the Developers nor from Digiweb.
The Domain was sold by the company NetEarth One, Inc. Located in Suite 5, 7th Floor, at 5 Greenwich View Place, Millharbour, in London, E14 9NN, United Kingdom which runs the website https://netearthone.com
“Bitcoin Webhosting” sells sites in exchange for various Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin since April 25, 2013, its helping expand Cryptocurrency adoption, however by doing so these Criminal groups benefit from the business model.
Digiweb in Ireland supplies one of the largest Criminal groups in the world by providing hosting services to a multitude of Criminal business managed all under “Bitcoin Webhosting” servers. The information we had access to suggests that Digiweb is aware of the illegal activity happening within those servers.
In our next instalments
We will take the public into the incredible world of the Iluminati brotherhood, in total more than 14 Sites run by this criminal ring that promise the public financial freedom, we will show you how it is possible to obtain a false ID in the European Union, we will allow you to explore four unauthorized financial intermediaries and forex brokers and we will explore phishing and extortion sites created for the sole purpose of separating you from your money.
[This article may have been written with information from various sources.]
I am suprised how these guys continue to be online.