Hello ono62931,
The address 1010 E. Mabel Street, Tucson, AZ 85719, is an apartment complex.
University Park Apartments
1010 E Mabel St
Tucson, AZ 85719
520-623-9975
http://www.aztucson.com/apartme.html
http://www.yellowpagestucson.com/business/28220/309/Apartments-14.html
The apartment complex, University Park Apartments, is on 1010 E. Mabel
St, 3 minute walking distance to the UA campus.
://www.google.com/search?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=%22University+Park+Apartments%22+1010+E+Mabel+St&btnG=B%C3%BAsqueda+en+Google&lr=
I did further research on this company and Safer-business appears to
be a fraudulent Escrow Company for the reasons I will list below.
CarBuyingTips.com provides a Consumer Guide to Avoiding Escrow
Internet Fraud. There are tips and inside information on how to spot
fraudulent escrow companies.
First of all, they provide a list of ?Suspicious" escrow sites that
they are currently watching or shutting down, and you should avoid as
of January 24, 2004.
***** safer-business.com is listed as one of the ?Suspicious" escrow sites.
?These sites that we have found just since November have suspicious
activity and we are watching them closely, or have turned them in to
the web hosts/registrars for deactivation . If you see a name listed
below, it is because we have determined they are fraudulent.?
http://www.carbuyingtips.com/fraud.htm
The consumer guide also provides tips for avoiding fraudulent escrow scams.
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Example 1
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?Do a Google search on the escrow's web site name. Legit escrows have
lots of Google results. Newer fake escrow sites will have zero search
results, or maybe one, if you see them listed here.?
***** I did a goggle search for www.safer-business.com and there were O hits.
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=www%2Esafer%2Dbusiness%2Ecom
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Example 2
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?If the escrow company is located outside the U.S., don't use them.
Are you nuts? They are not governed by any U.S. Laws.?
***** Safer-Business is based in Austria!
?Safer Business is an independent escrow company based in Wien, Austria.
European Office:
Address : Erzherzog Karl-Str 13
Zip : 1220
City : Wien
Country : Austria
http://safer-business.com/company.htm
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Example 3
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?Go to Register.com and do a "whois" lookup of the escrow company
domain name. If the domain name was registered only weeks before,
consider them to be fraudulent. They usually lie on their site and
claim to be around since 1999 or 2000.?
***** I did a whois search and Safer-business.com was created only
weeks before on Jan 06, 2004. The contact information is completely
different from the contact information they provide on their website.
Here are the results of the whois search for www.safer-business.com.
Organization:
NA
Mariam Bin Mahfouz
8 Museum Way # 1906
Cambridge, MA 02141
US
Phone: 6179451802
Fax..: 6179451802
Email: elmiloudimustaph@permanentmail.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: SAFER-BUSINESS.COM
Created on..............: Tue, Jan 06, 2004
Expires on..............: Thu, Jan 06, 2005
Record last updated on..: Sun, Jan 18, 2004
Administrative Contact:
NA
Mariam Bin Mahfouz
8 Museum Way # 1906
Cambridge, MA 02141
US
Phone: 6179451802
Fax..: 6179451802
Email: elmiloudimustaph@permanentmail.com
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
http://www.register.com/whois-results.cgi?07d7325a76353f1d0da43c359893fd91f3e62d194304e07d94c04f1dea996dee27187768bdf6ed88bec3e8a750b68c3b
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Example 4
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?Assume that just about any escrow service with the word "Safe" or
Secure" in their name are neither safe, nor secure.?
*****This Escrow Service is called Safer-business.
http://safer-business.com/index.php
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Example 5
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?Avoid dealing with an escrow web site that does not have BOTH the
address AND the phone number listed. Always call the phone number to
talk to a human. If you get a fax or some bogus generic voicemail
that says "leave a message", it's fraudulent.?
***** Safer-business.com ONLY provides their address ? NO PHONE NUMBER.
http://safer-business.com/contact.php
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Example 6
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?Verify with the Better Business Bureau if they have a reliability
report on your escrow company. It takes 5 seconds. Legitimate escrow
services are members of the BBB, and should have a "Satisfactory
Record" on the BBB Reliability Report.?
***** I searched for safer-business.com at the Better Business Bureau.
There were no companies matching my search criteria.
Safer-business.com is not a member of the Better Business Bureau.
http://search.bbb.org/search.html
***** I then searched at the BBB of Southern Arizona.
There were no companies found by the name of safer-business.
There were no results when I searched by their address on 1010 E Mabel St either.
http://www.tucson.bbb.org
I highly recommend that you read the entire Consumer Guide here:
http://www.carbuyingtips.com/fraud.htm
To sum it up:
There is no Escrow company called "Safer Business.Com" at 1010 E.
Mabel Street, Tuscon, Az 85719.
Search criteria:
Safer-business.com
Better Business Bureau
Whois search
Escrow Internet Fraud
I hope you find this information useful!
Sincerely,
Bobbie7 |
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