FAO~ Wiz, Fudgey, Jaws...... Any other Serious Computer Wiz!

[Adam Rickenberg]

Right,

Here's the problem. My mates & I have been swindled out of some serious cash due to a dody investment house based in Korea. We've lost about ?50,000 to a company called Harrington Management (not to be confused with Harrington Investments - a reputable trading house). We have reported this company to Interpol and to the SEC in USA

I already have a Korean mate going to visit the office in Seoul, Korea so that's sorted.

What I need is a trace done on their website http://www.harrington-management.com to find out exactly where this website is hosted, and who's paying for the site to be hosted.

My mates & I just want to get our cash back and to put these 'boiler room' bastards behind bars........

Can you guys help?

 

[Fat Bert]

Adam

Here the domain info mate......... not a lot of help I'm afraid

Domain Name: HARRINGTON-MANAGEMENT.COM
Registrar: YESNIC CO. LTD.
Whois Server: whois.yesnic.com
Referral URL: http://www.yesnic.com
Name Server: NS.KPOST.COM
Name Server: NS1.KPOST.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 19-apr-2005
Creation Date: 30-apr-2004
Expiration Date: 30-apr-2006


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[Fat Bert]

Added

Harrington Management Ltd.
27th Floor, Trade Tower
159-1 Samsung-dong, Kangnam-ku
Seoul 135-729, Korea

Tel 822-6007-2776
Fax 822-6007-2515
Email mail@harrington-management.com

 

[Adam Rickenberg]

Thanks Fudgey.....

I really appreciate the help! :bow:

Is there any way of finding how to actually contact the host of the Harrington website? Phone number, email addy etc??

I was thinking that we could find out the host and then ask the host for the contact details of whomever is behind the Harrington website....

 

[Fat Bert]

Adam

Probably wouldn't be any good

Most [decent] hosters on .com sites will protect their clients ID's

In the uk any .co.uk site now has to have owners name and address supplied to the registrar but this doesn't apply to .coms

Sorry mate

 

[Jaws]

Yesnic are now hosting almost all the shite heads, scammers, skimmers, drug sales people and every other bad news type of person.

Yesnic have already been warned by various law enforcement agencys to clean up or be prosecuted under various laws to do with mobster and money laundering activitys..
They are a shower of shit and it has been suggested elsewhere there may be links to Taliban and other terrorist organisations.. A front to sort out funding and all that crap.

 

[Adam Rickenberg]

So what you're trying to say is..........

My mates & I are pretty well fucked............... c7u8

Shit man......... not the kind of info we need right now! :h

 

[Jaws]

Ultimately the web site is the responsibility of the person or persons it is registered to, in this case Harrington Managment.

Being as they are in Seoul you can bet your life they are just a front.

Now, according to international agreed law ( though I am not privy to the signee's lists ) you can issue a court summons against the regsitered owner of the domain name.. This can only be done in the country the registrant resides in.

If the registrant fails to respond to the court call you can then take the papers to whois and errr.. damn.. will have to look it up, but basically you can take over the domain name as by failing to respond the registrant has effectively said he is washing his hands of the domain name and it is yours for the asking.

All of this is crap when shite loads of wonga is involved, but it has been used VERY successfully against several major spammers.

 

[Adam Rickenberg]

Thanks Jaws....

I appreciate all the help we can get on this matter.

I have managed to locate the owners of the Yesnic ISP (that host the dodgy Harrington Management website) so let's see if they respond to my emails.... :dunno:

Apparently, the Yesnic people are in the same building as HM in Seoul and it also transpires that the building is made up of 'serviced offices'. Yesnic may just be an ISP that provides web hosting for the 'paper companies' that reside in the building.

Not much to go on right now, but every little bit of info helps us build a picture of the scumbags........ If we are persisitent and patient, I'm sure we'll find a chink in their armour - then the fuckers are in for a shite ride!!