Nick Brown Is Back in Action

The following text or something similar has been going-around

dear customer,your $1000 wal-mart gift card is standing by! Claim now by using approval code:give1000 Visit:http://GIFTCARD6'com 2end reply stop

 As noted in a previous post, Walmart does not advertise by sending text messages to random people. So, any "offer" made in these messages are fraudelant and attempts to get your personal information.

The link provided GIFTCARD6.COM and this website is registered to

ivan pereyra

+1.5169985019
Fax: +1.5555555555
118 Norwood Avenue
Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 US

A websearch indicates that this is a single-family home, rather than a virtual office as seen in previous textspammers I've written about. Curiously, the email address for the domain's owner is  nickbrown012@gmail.com which is also the contact email for other domains and I will include the registrants' addresses

money600.com

(WHOIS Domain privacy engaged)

website no longer active

onlinelenders.info

Nick Brown

244 5th avenue

new york, ny 10001 US

:+1.2125610427

website appears inactive

webpaydaylender.com

Nick Brown

+1.6469120726

244 5th avenue ste 292j

new york, ny 10001 US

Email contact on website info@webpaydaylending.com

paydayform.com

Nick Brown

+1.5618073548

7454 lancaster pike #797

Hockessin, DE 19707 US

Email contact on website info@paydayform.com 

The address 244 5th Avenue in New York City appears to be a virtual office. So, letters of complaints can easily be ignored, if the recipient wishes. 

Nick is an old target of peoples' ire. Over 50 websites are registered to a "Nick Brown", though I cannot verify that these are all the same individual. Simply using the email address given above, the Nick Brown in-question seems to keep the actual number of domains he owns down to a small number, typically three or so.

The website GIFTCARD6.COM redirects to this website and here is a screenshot

 

If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see a Contact link where you can supposedly send an email to the site's owners. They even include a mailing address that I found interesting

GiftChain.net
ATTN: CUSTOMER CARE
Level 6, Pentagon P-2

Pune, MH 411013

The mailing address is in India, not the United States. Seems that Nick has decided to outsource.So much for keeping jobs in the "Good Ole US of A". Maybe Nick works for Bain Capital part-time.


Duane Browning