http://ittoptrans.com : Suspected Fraud Escrow

[ffazri]

From advertising in mudah.com.my, I contact a person named Luca Mariaci through web contact template for her Mercedes Benz E240. I ask her to reply me to my email. A day later, she email me, and she explain that she wanna sell her husband's car which bought from Malaysia when her husband working in Malaysia. Now, her husband is working in UK, and she is staying at her hometown in Italy. The car is in Italy, and she emails me all the cars picture.

After that, she try to convince me by saying that the car have all the documentation of JPJ (road transport department document) and PUSPAKOM certificate (standard procedure for change of owner in Malaysia : computerized vehicle check up). I'm surprised that A WOMAN in Italy can know deeply about all the procedure to sell cars in Malaysia. wow.. She says if I'm interested, we can begin the transaction using escrow services for safety reason. I don't feels good, so i try to trace Luca Mariaci's email but fail because she's using gmail account. I fail to get her location so, in my next email, i asked her to check my company website (local website, frequently accessed by the Malaysian only) with reason maybe she can find something interesting there.

Luckily, she do open the web and later i can trace several access from outside, which is very unusual from my server logs:

72.30.79.26 United States California Sunnyvale Inktomi Corporation
81.90.1.163 Russian Federation - - Network For Infrastructure Of Netlline Ltd
38.99.13.116 United States California San Francisco Performance Systems International Inc

Then, she asked me my contact details, and after its given, she tell me that she will submit my name to the escrow company services. After that, less than 6 hours i get an email from ittoptran.com, telling me that a Merc Benz had been registered to send by air on my name. Now, i believe that this transaction is 95% fraud.

I do open the http://ittoptran.com, the web looks perfect just like a professional courier company. However, i fail to open http://www.ittoptran.com, only http://ittoptran.com can be accessed. Feeling something is wrong, i do check the name "ittoptran" and finally found that the name is "blacklisted" or "suspected" fraud. hehehe..

Beware..

[terimakasih]

I have been con by the feller name Patrick ethan and another name Tragalio Gianni from ittoptrans.com
who wanted to sell audi car and saying that the car already with the escrow service company i.e ittoptrans . he request for 10% as first payment and another 90% later after inspected the car . I have paid the amount of 10% true western union money transfer but later he said there was a problem during trasportation at the italy airport and ask for another 15% i reluctant to pay . he still contacting me thru mail ...what should i do can i get back the 10% payment that i have made?

his addr : via del' venice 30175 , italy

pls assist

tq

[lightfair]

ffazri:

Thank you for your detailed report. I'm glad you didn't fall for it.

http://escrow-fraud.com/index.php?page= ... layout=172

contains entries for previous sites using the same or a similar design/layout, like

http://escrow-fraud.com/images/test/ittoptran.com.jpg
http://escrow-fraud.com/images/test/www ... ns.com.jpg
http://escrow-fraud.com/images/test/ter ... ng.com.jpg

(I is easy to see that the latter uses just different colours but is otherwise the same).

Another current "live" example is http://anglo-canada-post.freehostia.com/ (but this will be gone in a few days).

At the moment I cannot access any of the ittoptran.com sites.

[lightfair]

I have been con by the feller name Patrick ethan and another name Tragalio Gianni from ittoptrans.com
who wanted to sell audi car and saying that the car already with the escrow service company i.e ittoptrans . he request for 10% as first payment and another 90% later after inspected the car . I have paid the amount of 10% true western union money transfer but later he said there was a problem during trasportation at the italy airport and ask for another 15% i reluctant to pay . he still contacting me thru mail ...what should i do can i get back the 10% payment that i have made?

his addr : via del' venice 30175 , italy

You should by all means file a police report immediately. While the chances to recover any of the money are not too good it is extremely important to get investigations started (or the whole fraud will continue forever).

Both the names and addresses are almost certainly fake.Please post the email addresses of the scammers as well.