[Solved] Fruaudulent Domain - Queenslondonhotel.co.uk

[Murray]

Dear Online Abuse Team:

 

Please investigate and suspend the following fraudulent domain: queenslondonhotel.co.uk

 

URL: http://queenslondonhotel.co.uk/

 

This domain is hosted on your servers.

 

Summary: This site is being used to conduct 419 Internet Advanced Fee Fraud by impersonating a non-existent hotel. Under this common 419 Fraud ruse (commonly targeting victims from developing countries), fake non-profit organizations offer round trip air transportation to email recipients to attend non-existent international conferences. Email recipients are then asked pay hotel registration fees in advance by money order or bank wire transfer. After fees are paid, the promised round trip airline tickets are never provided.

 

A description of this scam can be found here: http://www.scamwarne...hp?f=40&t=18787

 

 

Reasons why queenslondonhotel.co.uk is fraudulent:

 

1. The fake Queens London Hotel is not listed in the United Kingdom's Companies House registry of authorized businesses (http://wck2.companie...cessCompanyInfo). This is evidence of fraud.

 

2. The fake Queens London Hotel web pages have illegally copied symbols, logos, format, and web page format and content of the legitimate Washington Mayfair Hotel (real site here: http://www.washington-mayfair.co.uk/) - http://www.copyscape...&w=145&i=1&r=10

 

3. The fraudulent domain's contact web page ( http://queenslondonhotel.co.uk/index.html ) lists the following as its address: 124 Kentish Town Road, London, NW1 9QB United Kingdom. The Abbey Tavern and not the Queens London Hotel is located at this address: http://www.londonnet...abbeytavern.html This is evidence of fraud.

 

4. The fraudulent domain's contact web page ( http://queenslondonh...contact_us.html ) lists the following telephone numbers: +44 (0) 702 403 7303 and +44 (0) 702 406 6710 as a main contact telephone numbers. This telephone numbers resolve to be personal (non-business) telephone number ( http://www.numbering...sis&sub=phonenr ). A legitimate hotel hosting an international conference would not use personal telephone numbers as main contact telephone numbers. This is an indication of fraud.

 

5. The fake Queens London Hotel website has a one year domain registration was very recent (05 January 2012). An established hotel in London would likely be more than two months old. This is an indication of fraud.

 

6. This website is listed in the Artists Against 419's database of fraudulent websites: http://db.aa419.org/...w.php?key=64681

 

If you need additional information to suspend this fraudulent domain, please contact me.

 

Thank you.

 

 

Murray Stanvall

Artists Against 419

http://www.aa419.org

[viclou]

Thank you for the report. It appears the site is indeed a scam, and the admins will take appropriate action once this report goes read.

[Byron]

queenslondonhotel.co.uk has been Suspended.

[Murray]

Thank you all. You're wonderful!