Hariri Finance LLC

[Nyla]

We've recently received a contact form about an apparent scammer posing as "Hariri Finance LLC", a UK company that offers to invest in businesses. In return for their "investment", they request that you pay a non-refundable deposit to get the ball rolling. Hariri Finance appears to be nothing but a scam.

Their supposed website, http://www.haririfinance.com/ , has no accessible web content, yet they do give email addresses with this domain. This post on help.com is exceedingly vague. http://help.com/post/36238-hariri-finance-llc The number given on the post is a personal forwarding number, which appears to be in the UK, but can be forwarded to any phone in the world. Scammers love these numbers. The same posting is randomly spammed in other places on the same forum. http://help.com/post/1247-i-need-hel...omeone-to-inve

For that matter, they seem to have randomly spammed a great many forums with their "ad". That is not normal behavior for a legitimate company.

This forum post indicates they have been traced back to Nigerian connections.

http://www.gobignetwork.com/forums/V...hreadID=105072

The domain registration information backs up the fact that it is a scam.

Updated Date: 18-dec-2006
Creation Date: 14-dec-2006
Expiration Date: 14-dec-2007

Registrant:
Cocodia, Victor
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effurun, Delta State 2345
NG

Domain Name: HARIRIFINANCE.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Cocodia, Victor victorcocodia@yahoo.com
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effurun, Delta State 2345
NG
08029565533

The IP for the domain traces to 211.111.111.11, which appears to be a Korean webhost. Obviously, registering a website with a Nigerian tech contact and hosting an email only domain on a Korean webhost is not normal behavior for a major UK company, either. I suspect the only true statement by Hariri Finance is that your deposit will be non-refundable. Scammers don't usually give refunds.

[Nyla]

Registration details now read as follows:

Registrant:
Raymond, Jerry (WQFIMHAQQD)
4, Templmead House
Homerton, London E9 5QT
UK

Domain Name: HARIRIFINANCE.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Raymond, Jerry (41356312P) stevegonzalez01@yahoo.com
4, Templmead House
Homerton, London E9 5QT
UK
442074649373


Needless to say, simply pulling a fake name, a non-matching free, anonymous Yahoo account, and UK address and phone number there doesn't make it any more trustworthy.

Domain registration information is not checked, and the site is still hosted in Korea.