www.world-wide-express.com

[Eruk]

I thought i had found an excellent deal when a guy from Liverpool, UK agreed to sell me a Porche Boxter (for import into the netherlands) for a very reasonable price. But then he started yapping about using an escrow service called world-wide-express. In short: i would give world-wide-express 1200 Euros, the car would come to me and then i'd pay the rest when i was satisfied.
The site is obviously a fraud, it has the known layout and crappy english. When i mailed them, they seemed to know the seller and the deal that i had in mind particularly well, and made all sorts of impossible promises like paying all the taxes for me and getting the car officially checked.
This guy is trying to do it to more people so that's why im trying to spread the word
Please add it to your blacklists..

[peg]

Indeed, the image is one fo a fraudulent site (added to my images page http://escrow-fraud.pgardner.net/images/sites/Layout2 )

Also looking at the whois info...

registrar: ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER
whois: whois.names4ever.com
referrer: http://www.names4ever.com
Nameservers:
NS2.ABAC.COM
NS1.ABAC.COM
status: ACTIVE
expires: 17-mar-2006


Registrar Data:

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agree that you will use this information only for lawful purposes and
that; under no circumstances will you use this information from
NAMES4EVER to: (a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the
transmission of mass commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail;
(b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to
NAMES4EVER and (c) sell the information. NAMES4EVER reserves the right
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to abide by this policy by NAMES4EVER. NAMES4EVER is ICANN accredited
Registrar for .com .org and .net domain names.

Domain name: world-wide-express.com

Registrant:
Michael Vern (PBNPS) expresswilde@yahoo.com
4060 A El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94403
United States
Phone: (234)4242 x 2234

Administrative Contact:
Michael Vern (V94RF) expresswilde@yahoo.com
4060 A El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94403
United States
Phone: (234)4242 x 2234

Technical Contact:
Michael Vern (PBNPS) expresswilde@yahoo.com
4060 A El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94403
United States
Phone: (234)4242 x 2234

Billing Contact:
Michael Vern (HKT6X) expresswilde@yahoo.com
4060 A El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94403
United States
Phone: (234)4242 x 2234

Record last updated on 2005-03-17 00:00:00
Record created on 2005-03-17 00:00:00 <--- Created a little over 2 months ago
Record expires on 2006-03-17 00:00:00

Domain servers in listed order:

ns1.abac.com 216.55.128.4
ns2.abac.com

Registration Service Provider: AplusNet(APRO)
apro-n4e-racc@abac.com

http://www.aplus.net

Registrar: NAMES4EVER, http://www.names4ever.com

kind of a new site and an OLD layout.

I guess the advantage is that it's easy to spot them when they are using this fraudulent layout, but unfortunately there are too many people who still fall for the scam.

Thanks to Eruk for bringing this one to our attention. I have added it to my list of reported fraudulent sites.