Profesional-Deal.com - Fraud?

[BigBlackBoxX]

Hello, I stumbled accross this website while researching an escrow service( http://www.profesional-deal.com ) I was referred to by a seller. Found it strange I had never heard of the escrow service and half the links on thier site were broken.

I found this post http://forum.pgardner.net/viewtopic.php?t=92 and decided to do a whois. This is what I found.

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whois record for: profesional-deal.com

Current Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Click here if this is your domain and you would like to switch registrars.

registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
whois: whois.melbourneit.com
referrer: http://www.melbourneit.com
Nameservers:
YNS1.YAHOO.COM
YNS2.YAHOO.COM
status: ACTIVE
expires: 05-apr-2006


Registrar Data:

Domain Name.......... profesional-deal.com
Creation Date........ 2005-04-06
Registration Date.... 2005-04-06
Expiry Date.......... 2006-04-06
Organisation Name.... C A Hayes
Organisation Address. 95 GOSLING ROAD
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. LANGLEY
Organisation Address. SL37TN
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED KINGDOM

Admin Name........... C A Hayes
Admin Address........ 95 GOSLING ROAD
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ LANGLEY
Admin Address........ SL37TN
Admin Address........ NY
Admin Address........ UNITED KINGDOM
Admin Email.......... meuttza@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.01753545101
Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94089
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
Tech Email........... domain.tech@YAHOO-INC.COM
Tech Phone........... +1.6198813096
Tech Fax............. +1.6198813010
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
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Seemed strikingly similar!

Luckily I have not entered into any kind of transaction with this site. Im guessing this has fraud written all over it. What do ya think.

BigBlackBoxX

[peg]

Given the creation date of the site (April 6th, 2005) I would mostly certainly consider this a fraud. That and the fact that they do not have SSL enabled either. Any site dealing with sensitive information should have the SSL enabled. Preferably by a trusted source but minimally by a self signed certificate.

Also as yuo pointed out.... the dead links... This one just smells of fraud.

Thanks for pointing this one out to us.

Paul

[BigBlackBoxX]

What is SSL? Forgive me for my lack of knowledge 8P

Casey

[peg]

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layering. It's basically an encryption protocol that allows you to communicate with another computer (Web Server) and keeps the conversation "Private" between you.

If you are conductiong financial transactions on the internet, you definitely want SSL enabled (which means instead of http you should see httpS in the browsers address bar)

You can find more information at http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html

[BigBlackBoxX]

Thanks for the explanation, and thankyou for providing this quality website. Added it to the favorites for future referance.

Casey
BigBlackBoxX