SCAMMER - Daisuke Konishi aka Larura Jame aka ...

tonecas · Jul 16, 2011

I have recently been scamed in $5,000 between PayPal and Wire Transfer payments for some short domains by this guy:

daisuke konishi [email protected] +81.727238359
genki.co.ltd
minoh6-5-73-102
minoh,osaka,JP 5620001

After a successful trade before, this time he didn’t transfer the domains to me and sold some of them to other domainers, kept my money and disappear.

I suspect that his personal information is fake. He seems to have an account with resellerclub.com and be well connected/based in India.
This is because:

1) He contacted me during the transaction process from the phone number +91 8220449378 which is from India. This phone is always disconnected, as it is his supposedly home phone in Japan. He said that he had lost his property with the earthquake + tsunami in Japan so he asked someone in India to contact me to arrange for the payment.

2) He also tried to make me send some money by Western Union to a guy/exchanger named Kalai Mani in Madurai, India. According to him he needed money urgently to load its resselerclub account with WebMoney (the stupid let expire some short domains like CC.net and LLL.org and .net). He said that resselerclub worked only in India and USA. He had also reached the account receiving limit in PayPal. The same contact in India showed up in the WHOIS for its main domain 851.fm in mid-June:

Name: Kalai Mani
Organisation: Kalai Sys
Address:
15 South Anna Salao
Chennai, N/A 600028
IN
Email Address: [email protected]
Phone Number: +91.845741474

This email address [email protected] is now showing in at least the following domain names, that were in the name of Daisuke Konishi until mid-June, but with different (and fake) contacts:

Domain Investment
Larura Jame ([email protected])
744, Ampark Suite
MV
California,94043
US
Tel. +001.87457457

Domains:
5630.com, 5931.com, 333.biz, 6212.com, iii.biz, 094.org, 096.org, 109.org, 184.org, 335.org, 449.org, 510.org, 646.org, qpm.org, qyt.org, rwg.org, tdv.org, trk.org, yle.org, lql.net, lhz.net, vuz.net, kqj.net, zsz.net, kkw.net, qge.net, qgm.net, wur.net, 1487.com, 4187.com, 9218.com, 2714.com, uzh.net, zhv.net, qfl.net, hitones.net, t-o.net, 059.biz, 043.biz, 1716.com, htt.net, 4832.com, xlj.net

3) The wire transfer was made to the bank account bellow in India. According to him it was its resselerclub’s bank account. Again another name, this time Suganthan S that has the email address [email protected]:

To: Bank Name : JP MORGAN CHASE, NEW YORK
Field 56 Swift Code / BIC : CHASUS33XXX
(Intermediary bank) Bank Clearing Code : FED ABA 021000021
For credit to: Account Number : 400808595 USD
Field 57 Beneficiary Bank : ICICI Bank Ltd., Mumbai (India)
Ultimate beneficiary: Account Number : 614801003453
Field 59 Account Name : Suganthan S

4) The PayPal was made to two accounts. Again, a new contact popping out:

** [email protected]

Customer Service Email: [email protected]

Business Name:
GetzShop (The recipient of this payment is Non-U.S. - Verified)
Email:
[email protected]
Payment sent to:
[email protected]

Business Contact Information :
Customer Service Email: [email protected]
Customer Service Phone: +91 01123816100

** [email protected]

Sent to:
daisuke konishi (The recipient of this payment is Non-U.S. - Verified)
Email:
[email protected]

5) He tried to sell me KQC.com for $3,000 on 20th of June but at that time the domain had changed the WHOIS to another guy in India and then moved on to privacy WHOIS at GoDaddy:

Thepl
Raja ([email protected])
51 South
Moutain View
California,94043
US
Tel. +001.7574747

This contact is associated with 5m.net which is also another domain that belonged to the scammer until mid-June.

The scammer has at least these domains still in his name:
5s.org, 7g.org, 9m.org, 9l.org, 9s.org, 9p.org, jsg.net, yrg.net, freeeuro.com, cctldnic.com, 21domain.net

If you see any of the domains or contacts described here please DON’T do business. You will be doing a favor to the community and to yourself.

Also, if you have made any deal already with any of these contacts please let me know.

regards,
tonecas

glaxxon · Jul 17, 2011

Looking at the kind of domains involved, looks like the scammer probably hacked someone's account and is selling all these names.
I suggest the we should temporarily flag these domains and should be careful...

tonecas · Jul 18, 2011

Hi glaxxon,

I thought of that also but even not having any proof to confirm it I believe that I dealt with the true owner and not an hacked account.

Some good news is that I was able to recover so far 1K from PayPal.

Anyone knows of any options to recover money from a wire transfer to a bank in India? Any legal entity to appeal?

regards,
tonecas

Archangel · Jul 19, 2011

I'm not sure. It's recommended to not use Western Union for domain sales :p

tonecas · Jul 20, 2011

Archangel said:
I'm not sure. It's recommended to not use Western Union for domain sales :p

:gl: that's why I didn't use it.

Meanwhile, looking for another mass payment from PayPal I see that this scammer used yet another contact:

Sent to:
sugu s (The recipient of this payment is Non-U.S. - Verified)
Email:
[email protected]
Payment sent to:
[email protected]

regards,
tonecas

Tim Schoon · Aug 5, 2011

Really sorry to hear this, and I hope you can get that cash back somehow, but.. Did you really think you were going to get $15k+ worth of domains for $5k?!

If the rest of the story doesn't check out, like wrong phone numbers, not matching countries, western union etc.. It's just running past all red flags you can think of..

SpiderHunter · Aug 5, 2011

Scumbags, its always better to use an escrow service like Sedo because of these guys, better safe then sorry, and WU is always a risk. I am sorry for your loss, good luck

tonecas · Aug 7, 2011

thanks guys (and girls)

this was really a strange situation. the wire transfer took ages and in the meantime the scammer suggested several times to cancel the deal and use another method of payment. and because I had made a previous deal that worked fine I lowered my guard.

in the meantime the scammer has dropped another 6 LLL.NET domains that are on auction at SnapNames. lower quality but nonetheless a few bucks worth. completely insane...

regards,
tonecas

Kenny · Nov 28, 2011

What ever happened with all this?

Peace,
Cy

tonecas · Nov 28, 2011

it is being dealt with the proper legal authorities.

regards,
tonecas

mis_chiff · Nov 28, 2011

tonecas said:
it is being dealt with the proper legal authorities.

regards,
tonecas

Do you want to leave the thread open and update when there is news?

DN BROKER · Nov 28, 2011

make sure to update us if you succeed with it.

tonecas · Nov 28, 2011

mis_chiff said:
Do you want to leave the thread open and update when there is news?

yes, that would be good.

regards,
tonecas

Acroplex · Jan 4, 2012

Same person turned up on DNF and two threads:

DNF/f529/lll-net-dqc-net-ekj-net-gfj-net-hsx-net-thread-473605.html

and

DNF/f324/nnn-org-names-thread-473653.html

Domains for sale include the following:

vhb.net
vhv.net
vuz.net
vya.net
vzf.net
wfu.net
wko.net
wkr.net
wkt.net
wkv.net
wur.net
wuv.net
xgr.net
xsx.net
xww.net
dqc.net
ekj.net
gfj.net
hsx.net
hzx.net
jqa.net
jqv.net
jxq.net
kgc.net
kkb.net
kkw.net
kqj.net
032.org
034.org
035.org
039.org
042.org
043.org
045.org
046.org
047.org
048.org
049.org
051.org
053.org
054.org
056.org
057.org
059.org

DN BROKER · Jan 4, 2012

Did you inform Admin?

Acroplex said:
Same person turned up on DNF and two threads:

DNF/f529/lll-net-dqc-net-ekj-net-gfj-net-hsx-net-thread-473605.html

and

DNF/f324/nnn-org-names-thread-473653.html

Domains for sale include the following:

vhb.net
vhv.net
vuz.net
vya.net
vzf.net
wfu.net
wko.net
wkr.net
wkt.net
wkv.net
wur.net
wuv.net
xgr.net
xsx.net
xww.net
dqc.net
ekj.net
gfj.net
hsx.net
hzx.net
jqa.net
jqv.net
jxq.net
kgc.net
kkb.net
kkw.net
kqj.net
032.org
034.org
035.org
039.org
042.org
043.org
045.org
046.org
047.org
048.org
049.org
051.org
053.org
054.org
056.org
057.org
059.org

Acroplex · Jan 4, 2012

Admins have been notified along with those unfortunate to have bought from those threads.

rngrdanny22 · Jan 4, 2012

He has other threads including this one:

DNF/f529/v6-org-thread-473360.html

Someone posted today that the sale was completed. So is this guy just taking people's money, or are the domains stolen?

---------- Post added at 09:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:23 AM ----------

He just responded via this message:

DNF/f529/v6-org-thread-473360.html

Seems to go hand in hand with the original post in this thread... interesting indeed...

DN BROKER · Jan 4, 2012

Acroplex said:
Admins have been notified along with those unfortunate to have bought from those threads.

According to one of our members at DNF he purchased the names and is saying he has no complaints.

Acroplex · Jan 4, 2012

CureCancer said:
According to one of our members at DNF he purchased the names and is saying he has no complaints.

LLL .net domains sold at $360 a pop are legit? Just how much did he buy them for? This "Exam" guy at DNF is simply laundering stolen domains.

DN BROKER · Jan 4, 2012

Acroplex said:
LLL .net domains sold at $360 a pop are legit? Just how much did he buy them for? This "Exam" guy at DNF is simply laundering stolen domains.

I agree, You have my support I like to see someone like yourself with experience to investigate this as deep as you can and find a solution if possible.

seek99 (DNF MEMBERS) said:
yes received the names went 4K escrow.com they paid to inidai and #2 $5K payopal got names so far no complaints
I did a disoute payapl be on teh safe side.

Archangel · Jan 4, 2012

He might have a friend saying these good things, hoping to give the spammer some trust. Or maybe there's something else on the agenda...

CureCancer said:
According to one of our members at DNF he purchased the names and is saying he has no complaints.

DN BROKER · Jan 4, 2012

Archangel said:
He might have a friend saying these good things, hoping to give the spammer some trust. Or maybe there's something else on the agenda...

Sooner or later that agenda will be exposed, let's just hope we can put a stop to this before another honest Domainer is targeted.

Corey · Jan 4, 2012

have you called the Police?

Cheers
Corey

tonecas · Jan 4, 2012

Acroplex said:
Same person turned up on DNF and two threads:

DNF/f529/lll-net-dqc-net-ekj-net-gfj-net-hsx-net-thread-473605.html

and

DNF/f324/nnn-org-names-thread-473653.html

thanks Acro! i don't have an account with DNF.

can't go into much details still yet since every bit of information helps a scammer.

but suffices to say that those domains apparently get on the hands of other Indian guys. seems like a very small market :blink:

regards,
tonecas

Earthian · Jan 5, 2012

according to the OP , the whois for 851.fm was for Kalai Mani from Channai with [email protected] address

in 17th post in the DNF thread bfstay mentions that from escrow the details of the seller (Exam) are ... "Thilipan P (kalaimani[email protected])" ... therefore Exam is Kalai Mani

Exam says that he bought the domains from [email protected] which is obviously a lie since it is his address

moreover , according to his DNF profile , Exam is from Chennai (where Kalai Mani/[email protected] is from)

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