The fake sites reported in this topic are all connected to a single person: a facilitator making it possible for all of these fraudulent domains to be online and scam victims. Different fake names and locations used in domain registration, are in fact a web developer from Ghana.
The most used email address for registering these fraudulent domains is acticinl@gmail.com. Back in April 2016, there was a fake bank - Acticinl.com - registered with the details:
Owner: Martin Odoi
Company: Actic International
Geolocation: Accra, Accra, Ghana
Email: acticinl@gmail.com
Since then until today, the number of fraudulent domains attributable to this person and active online is growing. Fake sites, apparently suspended, are suddenly back online, scamming victims again. Expired domain names are re-registered again. All of these, while the domain registrations details are fake.
The faker maker:
Jonathan Amenyah
Former CEO & Founder at RINJAcom Trust
Former CEO & Founder at Advert Africa
Former Graphic and a website developer at CLICK HOUSE COMPANY
Goes to Takoradi Polytechnic SRC
Lives in Accra, Ghana
A good part of the fake sites reported in this topic were brought to our attention by victims targeted in different types of fraud while using the fake sites we are talking about here.
Since the faker maker was reported for the fake sites he creates (2016), he moved from one Registrar to another. PDR was the first Registrar used and all the sites active with them were suspended. A similar situation happened with Enom. Now the sites are registered with Sinjiru. Initially CloudFlare was used for hiding the hosting at Sinjiru. Now most of the fake sites are using NameCheap as a hoster. Looks like Sinjiru has some work to do - so far there are close to 100 domain names in this nest.
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Fake site used in scam, impersonating Access Trust Bank.
According to their site:
Established in 2005 Access Trust Bank is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $203 billion as of January 31, 2014, and approximately 45,500 employees, Access Trust Bank provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.
ADDRESS:
21st Mango Towers
Tesano, Accra
Ghana
EMAIL : info@accesstrustplc.com / customerservice@accesstrustplc.com
PHONE : +233 303 939 514 / +233 506 091 133
Copyright © 2016 Access Trust Bank. All Rights Reserved.
+233303939514
Number billable as geographic number
Country or destination Ghana
City or exchange location Tema, Greater Accra
Original network provider* Ghana Telecom / Vodafone (Ghana)
+233506091133
Number billable as mobile number
Country or destination Ghana
Original network provider* Ghana Telecom / Vodafone (Ghana)
"Established in 2005" means less than a month ago...
Fake site details:
Domain Name: ACCESSTRUSTPLC.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2061046584_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Updated Date: 2016-09-22
Creation Date: 2016-09-22
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-09-22
Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
Registrar IANA ID: 303
Registrant details:
Registrant Name: Martin Odoi
Registrant Organization: Actic International
Registrant Street: Awoshie Market, Near ICGC
Registrant City: Accra
Registrant State/Province: Accra
Registrant Postal Code: 233
Registrant Country: GH
Registrant Phone: +233.0570113660
Registrant Email: acticinl@gmail.com
This is what the fake site is looking like: