For promoting their products, the scammers post spam-style comments on fitness / healthy diets websites:
Food World March 9, 2019 at 12:51 am
Buy quality PISTACHIO NUTS, organic edible nuts and spices from Food World
Email:
info.foodworld.na@gmail.com or
order@foodsworld.co.zaor Call Tel Line: +27 736 118 889 to place your order.
We deliver worldwide
From the fake website:
Food World (Agro Product Export Company) was founded in 2008 by a family of investors and business lovers who decided to watch their dreams of amazing global buyers with Africa's finnest and most quality products by supplying to the international market. Refurbished in 2017 ,We started Supplying the widest variety of quality dried fruit ,nuts , seeds and spices sourced from local farmers , not only from Southern Africa but from the world outlarge. Throughout the years, We have traveled the world in pursuit of the finest quality product of different varieties and quality,in a bid to ensure, under full confidence and satisfaction, that what we supply is nothing but the best.
Contact details on the fake website:
During the correspondence with their victims the contact details shared are:
Food World
Benoni AH, Benoni, 1509
Tel Line: 011 051 8461
Mobile: 0736 118 889
www. foodsworld.co.za
+27110518461
Number billable as geographic number
Country or destination South Africa
City or exchange location Johannesburg
+27736118889
Number billable as mobile number
Country or destination South Africa
Original network provider* MTN
They are also offering for sale, among others: gold, diamond, emerald, platinum, used electronics and car parts.
Entry in the aa419 Database of fraudulent websites:
https://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=139696.
From the domain name registration:
Domain Name: foodsworld.co.za
Updated Date: 2018-11-22
Creation Date: 2018-11-22 Registry Expiry Date: 2019-11-22
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-11-22
Registrar: Domains
Registrant Name: Mokoqama Rorisang
Registrant Organization: Food World
Registratn Postal Address: Benoni AH,Benoni, Gauteng, 1509, ZA
Registrant Phone: REDACTED
Registrant Phone : +27.787106201
Registrant Email:
info.foodworld.na@gmail.comThis is what the fake website looks like: