2 thoughts on “everify.com”

1. SFA Reporter says:

   October 27, 2013 at 9:16 am

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   Hovhannes Harutyunyan, center, an Armenian who was living in Burbank, California, is one of the architects of a fraud ring that enlisted visa holders like Yermek Dossymbekov, left, and Alisher Omarov to commit crimes. If you have information on the case, contact the San Diego FBI at (858) 320-1800.

    

   International Fraud
   Crime Ring Recruited Short-Term Visa Holders

    

   10/25/13

    

   The recruitment pitch to students on short-term visas must have seemed irresistible: give us your good name and some help in our fraud scheme, and we’ll put money—potentially thousands of dollars—in your wallet before your return trip home.

    

   In charges unsealed late last month in San Diego, FBI agents and their law enforcement partners named dozens of young visa holders from former Soviet-bloc countries who took the bait and became willing co-conspirators in a range of elaborate fraud schemes. In four separate indictments, a federal grand jury laid bare how a Los Angeles-based Armenian crime ring ran scams in L.A. and San Diego that relied on a steady tide of accomplices whose time was short in the U.S. While the crimes themselves were not especially novel—identity theft, bank fraud, tax fraud—the explicit recruitment of co-conspirators with expiring visas was a twist.

    

   “The J-1 visa holders are a commodity in these cases,” said Special Agent Davene Butler, who works in our San Diego Division. She described how a few masterminds enlisted young accomplices to do much of the legwork in their fraud schemes—opening bank accounts and securing apartments and post office boxes to route proceeds from bogus tax returns, for example. By the time a scam came to light, the “foot soldiers” holding J-1 and F-1 visas—which allow foreigners to study and travel in the U.S. for brief periods—would be long gone. “They were essential in the schemes,” Butler said.

    

   The charges announced on September 26 named 55 individuals and followed a two-year investigation led by the San Diego FBI, local authorities, and the IRS, which paid out more than $7 million in bogus tax refunds. About half of those charged were arrested last month in a nationwide sweep, but more than 25 remain at large, including 24 who are believed to have left the country. The FBI is asking for the public’s help locating some of the suspects, including one of the crime ring’s main architects, Hovhannes Harutyunyan, 34, an Armenian whose last known address was in Burbank, California.

    

   The charges show four primary schemes. Here’s how they worked:

    

   • Using stolen identities, the crime ring filed about 2,000 fraudulent tax returns claiming more than $20 million in refunds. J-1 students obtained addresses and bank accounts for the fraudulent refunds to be sent.
   • Conspirators set up bank accounts and began writing checks back and forth to create a good transaction history, which banks rewarded by shortening or eliminating holds on deposited checks. Then the so-called “seed” accounts wrote bad checks to 60 “bust-out” accounts, which paid out more than $680,000.
   • Conspirators obtained personal information about the identities and accounts of wealthy bank customers and disguised themselves as the account holders. They practiced forging documents and impersonating the account holders, and succeeded in obtaining $551,842. They laundered the money by purchasing gold with the stolen funds.
   • Conspirators obtained pre-paid debit cards in the names of identity theft victims and opened bank accounts in the names of visa holders who sold their account information before leaving the U.S. They then filed more than 400 fraudulent tax returns seeking more than $3 million.

    

   “This investigation involved multiple complex fraudulent schemes resulting in significant losses to financial institutions and American taxpayers,” said San Diego FBI Special Agent in Charge Daphne Hearn.

    

   Agent Butler said the charges and arrests send a message that these schemes are not without consequences. Those who have already fled won’t find it easy to get back to the U.S. “And they won’t be able to tell their friends that they can come to the U.S., commit fraud, get some quick cash, and that nothing will happen to them,” she said.

    

   If you have any information about these cases, please contact the FBI at (858) 320-1800 or online at tips.fbi.gov.

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2. SFA Reporter says:

   October 23, 2013 at 11:50 pm

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   Address lookup
   canonical name http://www.everify.com.
   aliases
   addresses 74.206.234.188
   Domain Whois record

   Queried whois.internic.net with “dom everify.com”…

   Domain Name: EVERIFY.COM
   Registrar: DOMAIN.COM, LLC
   Whois Server: whois.domain.com
   Referral URL: http://www.domain.com
   Name Server: NS.WEBAIR.NET
   Name Server: NS2.WEBAIR.NET
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 11-may-2012
   Creation Date: 28-sep-2003
   Expiration Date: 28-sep-2017

   >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:13:08 UTC <<<

   Queried whois.domain.com with "everify.com"…

   Registrant:
   EVERIFY
   P.O. Box 990043
   Boston, MA 02199
   US

   Domain name: EVERIFY.COM

   Administrative Contact:
   Pay, Info info@everify.com
   P.O. Box 990043
   Boston, MA 02199
   US
   6172629317 Fax: 6172629325

   Technical Contact:
   Pay, Info info@everify.com
   P.O. Box 990043
   Boston, MA 02199
   US
   6172629317 Fax: 6172629325

   Registration Service Provider:
   Dotster.com, support@dotster-inc.com
   +1.8004015250
   This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
   DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.

   Registrar of Record: Domain.com
   Record last updated on 15-Jun-2012.
   Record expires on 28-Sep-2017.
   Record created on 28-Sep-2003.

   Domain servers in listed order:
   NS.WEBAIR.NET
   NS2.WEBAIR.NET

   Domain status: clientDeleteProhibited
   clientTransferProhibited
   clientUpdateProhibited

   Network Whois record

   Whois query for 74.206.234.188 failed: TimedOut

   Queried whois.arin.net with "n 74.206.234.188"…

   NetRange: 74.206.224.0 – 74.206.255.255
   CIDR: 74.206.224.0/19
   OriginAS: AS27257
   NetName: WEBAIRINTERNET3
   NetHandle: NET-74-206-224-0-1
   Parent: NET-74-0-0-0-0
   NetType: Direct Allocation
   Comment: rwhois://rwhois.webair.com:4321
   RegDate: 2008-05-14
   Updated: 2012-03-02
   Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-74-206-224-0-1

   OrgName: Webair Internet Development Company Inc.
   OrgId: WAIR
   Address: 501 Franklin Avenue
   Address: Suite 200
   City: Garden City
   StateProv: NY
   PostalCode: 11530
   Country: US
   RegDate: 2001-03-12
   Updated: 2012-01-12
   Comment: Reassignment information for this block is available at rwhois.webair.com port 4321
   Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/WAIR

   ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.webair.com:4321

   OrgTechHandle: ZW64-ARIN
   OrgTechName: IPAdmin-Webair
   OrgTechPhone: +1-516-938-4100
   OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@webair.com
   OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZW64-ARIN

   OrgNOCHandle: ZW64-ARIN
   OrgNOCName: IPAdmin-Webair
   OrgNOCPhone: +1-516-938-4100
   OrgNOCEmail: ipadmin@webair.com
   OrgNOCRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZW64-ARIN

   OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE2550-ARIN
   OrgAbuseName: Abusehandle
   OrgAbusePhone: +1-516-938-4100
   OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@webair.com
   OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ABUSE2550-ARIN

   RNOCHandle: ZW64-ARIN
   RNOCName: IPAdmin-Webair
   RNOCPhone: +1-516-938-4100
   RNOCEmail: ipadmin@webair.com
   RNOCRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZW64-ARIN

   RAbuseHandle: ZW64-ARIN
   RAbuseName: IPAdmin-Webair
   RAbusePhone: +1-516-938-4100
   RAbuseEmail: ipadmin@webair.com
   RAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZW64-ARIN

   RTechHandle: ZW64-ARIN
   RTechName: IPAdmin-Webair
   RTechPhone: +1-516-938-4100
   RTechEmail: ipadmin@webair.com
   RTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZW64-ARIN

   DNS records

   DNS query for 188.234.206.74.in-addr.arpa returned an error from the server: NameError
   name class type data time to live
   http://www.everify.com IN A 74.206.234.188 900s (00:15:00)
   everify.com IN SOA
   server: ns.webair.net
   email: webmaster@everify.com
   serial: 2011030802
   refresh: 10800
   retry: 3600
   expire: 604800
   minimum ttl: 43200
   900s (00:15:00)
   everify.com IN NS ns.webair.net 900s (00:15:00)
   everify.com IN NS ns2.webair.net 900s (00:15:00)
   everify.com IN MX
   preference: 10
   exchange: mail.everify.com
   900s (00:15:00)
   everify.com IN A 74.206.234.188 900s (00:15:00)

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