Fortune Consults - fortuneconsults.com

[dave_mast]

I am the owner of a digital agency and one of our clients has had their site scraped and cloned. We came across this after being alerted by an individual that had been chatting to a ghost person claiming to the director of a mining company and their suspicions were correctly confirmed as the site was stolen from our client.

The scam site is Fortune Consults http: / / fortuneconsults.com/mining/index.htm <- link disabled. FF

[Big Al]

Can you have the individual post some of the E-mails they received? Please remove any references to their name or E-mail address.

Also an E-mail header from one of the Websites E-mail addresses would be helpful.

I show the site created on 4/9/17.

[firefly]

Dave, thank you for your post.

That site you mentioned is fake. The content is stolen from a real site having nothing to do with the scam. The scammers copied the entire real site, changing only the name of the company. The scammers even stole the registration number of the real company and they are using it on their site, while pretending to be someone else.

The fake site claims to be Fortune Mining Consultants.

Fortune Mining Consultants has been established by three such Competent Persons- Michael Goodman (Mining), Steve Moffart (Project Manager) – Donnan Malcolm (Engineering Analyst) who believe that this shift has created the need for a new kind of mining consultancy.
Since its inception in January 2009 FMC has undertaken assignments in a number of countries including Russian Federation, Turkey, Macedonia and United Kingdom.

Contact details:

Fortune Mining Consultants Limited
Victory House, 400 Pavilion Drive,
Northampton Business Park,
Northampton, NN4 7PA
Northampton, United Kingdom
Registered in England
Number xxx

"Since its inception in January 2009" is a lie - the domain is few months old.

From the fake site details - https://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=126609; the scammers are using the privacy protection given by the Registrar to hide their real identity and location while committing the fraud:

Domain name: fortuneconsults.com
Updated Date: 2017-04-09
Creation Date: 2017-04-09
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-04-09
Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC
Reseller: NAMECHEAP INC
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.

This is what the fake site looks like: