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November 6th, 2008
i live in northern ireland and my father has just recieved a similar letter from david johnson. Its obviously a scam, although he is persistant and has sent letters to many countries in the world.
November 6th, 2008
Hi From Ontario, Canada received the same letter from David Johnson Jr of Spain. What a scam.
November 7th, 2008
My mother in law recieved this letter as well from David Thompson! Sad thing is she did fly over to Spain and did a financial transaction into his accounts. Surprise, Surprise he asked for more money! We realise that she will not get her money back but I am prepared to go as far as I have to, to get this man exposed and give him the justice he deserves. Can you all help me by informing me of who I contact and what progess any of you have made in getting the Spain Authorities involved.?? This man needs to be brought to justice and hopefully with help from the right people we can take the right steps to get him caught!
November 7th, 2008
Ha! how easy it is to pick a scam!
obviously David Johnson Jr hasnt googled his own name recently!
November 8th, 2008
Hi from Lugano, Switzerland! My father just received the same letter from David Johnson Jr. We were suspiciuous and it was good to find this web site!
November 9th, 2008
Thanks for the site. The letter we received has been taken to federal authorities. Because of this SCAM that has been running, people are getting hurt and especially in this time of hardship. People cannot afford to lose money. Queensland, Australia.
November 11th, 2008
Hi brothers!
I’ve got the same later from from David Johnson Jr. As I understand, he likes small rural cities, there are a lot of old nice trustful people, and this is a hope for them. This guy for sure, works under local authority protection, and to catch him, I believe, you should do private investigation and punish him by your own.
November 12th, 2008
I have just recieved a letter the same ,however he has changed his name to David Johnson Jnr.. This guy is a con
November 12th, 2008
From the Gold Coast Australia my husband received this scam letter today from David Johnson & Lawyers, Salamanca Spain. We knew straight away this was a scam with its unofficial looking letter. If you believe in karma this or these wankers will get their “just desserts” I just wish I could be there when he or they go down.
November 12th, 2008
We just recieved this letter. Devon Uk. Not a very bright guy is he? I can’t understand why no criminal proceedings have begun towards this person. I dread to think how many innocent people have fallen for his scam. He needs his ass putting in jail or his fingers cut off to prevent him from sending any more of these letters!
November 15th, 2008
Hi.
I also received a letter from David Johnson Jr.
The same 50% from 22 million $. Email and Fax numbers.
A real bummer, we all can use the 11 million $.
I’m still lucky with what i have, and that is not the possible shit what you can get from this “David” organization.
I wish you all happy day’s and a good new year at the end of next month.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
November 16th, 2008
My mother received the letter from David Johnson & Lawyers Salamanca Spain.We looked and found the website but he didn’t appear in the Salamanca phonebook.I was curious and suspicious and I called the number in the letter.”David Johnson”answered the phone and asked to send a mail.I received a mail in very poor english and we all know what he likes me to do.Well I did and reported the whole thing to Peter R de Vries known from the Natalee Holloway case.
November 17th, 2008
Hi
My father received the same letter in November 2008, but it was off a David Johnson from Johnson & Asscoiates in Spain. Apparently this guy died in a car accident in 2005 and was a farmer and his name was a Mr Frederick M Floyd, his mother was a Lilian Floyd and his father was a Terry Floyd. They were farmers, like ourselves. However, we were quite suspicious of it from the start, but played along with him and still are. They actually want my father to fly over to Barcelona in Spain and pay 8200 euros, they’d get a job getting £5 off my dad, never mind 8200 euros..
We are sending all the correspondence from our very kind David Johnson to the head of police in spain and head of police in the UK. So I ask of everyone that has fallen victim of this scam, please do the same, so we can get this guy in jail.
November 17th, 2008
conf.
November 17th, 2008
Hi from Luxembourg,
My friend just received the famous letter.
Still from David Johnson jr, DON’T TRUST.
Phone: +34690376654
Fax: +34912919523
Mail: dth5858@yahoo.es
OR davtd58@gmail.com
November 17th, 2008
from belgium,
here also the letter from johnson
do not reply to it
November 17th, 2008
I got this letter today (November 17, 2008) too, I googled “davtd58@gmail.com” and found this discussion. Isn’t it surprising that this man can do this trick for nearly a year now, gets money from people, and still isn’t in prison?
November 18th, 2008
The letter is also being mailed to Holland now. I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and received it in the mail today. Of course I immediately went online and googled a random part of the letter. My first try with “dth5858@yahoo.es” hit on this website. Amazing how long this mail has already been around. There must be some people sending this guy money, how else is he going to pay for all the postage needed to send his letter around the world. By the way, I think it’s really cool to receive some offline spam! How can we get Google to start filtering our snail mail inboxes too?
The name in the letter is still David Johnson Jr who works for Johnson & Associates in Salamanca Spain. The private phone number at the bottom is +34690376654.
November 19th, 2008
The only one with a chance of making 22 million is the one running this scam. People are stupid, and authorities are useless, which is why even a brazen scam like this makes heaps of money. And those “clever” people who pointed out the spelling mistakes in the letter. Even a legitimate letter from a foreign firm will often contain errors. Let’s see you smart-a**es write a decent letter in something other than YOUR native tongue.
November 19th, 2008
the same in Lithuania. A letter from David Johnson.
November 19th, 2008
Yesterday (November 18, 2008) I received a letter from Mr David Johnson Jr from Salamanca, dated November 10, posted in Madrid on November 13. He is reputed to be a lawyer at D. Johnson & Lawyers S.A., Paseo Carmelitas, 67 37002 Salamanca, which address should have been 67 Paseo de las Carmelitas, 37002 Salamanca, I believe. The letter contains many mistakes which are unlikely to appear in a letter by an English lawyer.
The letter has no head, so as “Dear Mr Mebius,” or alike, which is the first indication of a crime. “breech of Law” instead of “breach of law”, “the institution have” instead of “the institution has”, and so forth. It is very suspect altogether and you should be warned. His site is http://johnsoneu.com/ but you are advised not to contact him at any time, better contact the nearest police station.
So and now I’m off to the police station.
Rienk.
p.s. I live in the Netherlands.
November 20th, 2008
We got a letter from David Johnson Jnr and we replied via email and got a reply from David saying Frederick, a farmer, had died in Spain. As if! Now the good part of this story is that on the same day we had a letter from another scammer saying we had some money in lost funds and they would help us get it if we paid a large fee. Well – we did have money in lost funds and we have now started the process to retrieve it without any help from any scamming Spaniards or Australians. So for any Aussies out there – go to the ASIC site and type in your name and you can see if you have any lost money for free. And now I’m off to learn Spanish so I can check out the lost money site in Spain, just to make sure Frederick didnt leave us 22 million.
November 20th, 2008
The letter reached Lithuania!
My grandmother received it and allmost believed. It’s very catchy. 22million!
It’s very good I found this website.
November 20th, 2008
Hi fellow recipients of correspondance from David Johnson jr. or his then or latest alias. I got a letter from this conartist piece of shit today. Standard blurb regarding 22 million dollars and the death of a relative with the same name as mine. Worse thing is I have family in Spain, so the letter upset me. His brother my father was killed ina car accident as well. It seemed almost possible. I got so upset I forgot that lawyers do not use gmail and yahoo. They also have practices that exist. I even phoned the man who seemed beleivable. To all those interested David is or has maybe been living in a hotel in Paseo Carmelitas, 67 37002 Salamanca, Spain. Thankfully my lawyer found out in five seconds that the guy was a conman. I was too busy checking whether my uncle was not dead. Iam stupid !!!
November 20th, 2008
Hello from Norway. The letters are here too.
Anyway, quite a cold day, suitable to burn in my wood stove.
November 25th, 2008
http://johnsoneu.com/ has gone in the mean time.
November 26th, 2008
Ha ha! What a dodgy letterhead for a “prominent law firm”. Just got the letter here in regional Australia. What a dirtbag. Love the running commentary about the circulation of this crap. Perhaps old Davo should google himself and see just how popular he is! And is that $22mil euros? Hope its not Aussie dollars at the moment. Bahaha.
Meanwhile my great uncle just died and ah, if you ah, have written on this blog thing he wants to give you a few $mil… So just email me your account details to iswearimnocon@gimmeyourmoney.com and i’ll shoot it straight over. Ahem…
November 27th, 2008
David Johnson is still active. I got a same letter for the 22 million
November 29th, 2008
Yes, this David Johnson “Dirt bag” is quite a “Piece of shit” He sent my father in Shepperton, Aust one of these letters,. posted from Spain in Oct ,arrived 24 Nov. stating he was looking for people with the same name as mine etc…..strange thing was, he sent it to my fathers country address,where he doesn’t reside and not to his residential address else where…Wouldn’t you think any one with any “smarts”that was looking for a person with the same name etc… would send mail to both addresses ?Even stranger the town that the “crap”was sent to had the towns previous name and not the existing one… Where is this “Dumb arse” getting his info from? & what is he doing in OZ?… I hope you are reading this site,David who ever you are you looser.Why don’t you leave innocent people alone? and just “Piss off” you “Dick head”!
December 1st, 2008
Hi Everyone – the wilds of Wales have the letter too.
And there was me thinking I was going to make easy money LOL!
Now using Johnson & Lawyers SA – email davth58@yahoo.es or davj58@gmail.com this guy could seriously use some spam into his email accounts.
I like the fact he said it is a beneficiary of mine – yet as a married woman I use my married name yet he hasn’t written to hubby.
At least we all know it’s a scam and have the sense to laugh about it.
Forward you letters to your local Trading Standards Office if you can.
Take care and Merry Christmas.
December 1st, 2008
Same letter received in Belgium
same, all the same …
Thanks for this site that exist !!
December 2nd, 2008
I got the same letter from David Johnson Jr. I can’t believe how long this guy has been sending these letters around the world. I knew that I had no relatives in Spain and needless to say none worth 22 mil. It is interesting to see how far his con has gone.
December 7th, 2008
I received the letter from David Johnson today. The first thing I did was checking internet if this spam was known already. It clearly was. There are several websites that report on this spamletter.
My letter was sent upon the 4th of december. Apparently from Spain. But he used a wrong postalcode. Normally in Holland when you put a wrong postalcode on a letter, the letter will take many days before it arrives. But now it took only 2 days.
So I’m quite sure this letter was not sent from Spain but from Holland. And most likely from my own town. So this is not the work of one person. It can’t be – it’s more than a fulltime job. It’s a big company – a multinational.
And don’t worry I’m afraid they earn a lot with it. Otherwise they won’t do this job for almost a whole year. On this site we only meet a few people that lost a lot of money. I’m sure there are more of them.
What to say. Even if you went too far with David Johnson and maybe you’ll feel not only stupid or a victim but also ashamed or guilty yourself of doing so – for let’s be fair it’s also a crime of saying you’re the only one cousin of an unknown man that died from an accident in Madrid, just to get big money – go to the police. Maybe one day this kind of business will be stopped.
December 7th, 2008
Me too, I’ve got this letter from David Johnson.
December 7th, 2008
I got the same letter by D. Johnson in Holland on 5 december 2008 and just binned it.
December 10th, 2008
A little educating for all. That it is a scam goes without saying.
This con (by these crooks) has been circulating for over a year now and plenty have fallen victim to it – many even travelling to Spain and meeting the non spanish speaking african conman and his co horts to view the inheritance. And they have viewed a case which contains what appears to be US dollars (no one questioned why a spanish relative they never knew about stored $22,000,000 in US dollars in a tin box) – or why no one spoke spanish, or why the spanish law firm was full of africans?
These criminals have obtained your details by legally purchasing Equity lists and other such mail out marketing lists from companies all around the world. You lost your identity when you filled out a ‘free entry’ raffle book at a local supermarket, or on line etc.. NOTHING IS FOR FREE.
Mr LOPEZ, THOMPSON, JOHNSON, DORKRY, BECHTLE (and the various other incarnations) has sent the identical paperwork out for all of these scams (with the inherent spelling mistakes) but changes the names of the ‘deceased’ to fit in with your own identity.
They have created what appears to be websites (thompson and associates, Johnson and Lawyers, David Lopez and associates, Equity Law firm) but those more computer literate than me advise me these are flash pages – not websites?
And all email addresses are at Gmail or Yahoo, or live. I still laugh out loud that anyone would believe that the spanish government can be contacted at Yahoo.com
Although african nationals they have based themselves in Spain to exploit the actual spanish inheritance laws there which do place the burdon of taxes and fees upon the beneficiary (in actual inheritances)
Your local police can do little more than forward everything via interpol to the spanish authorities. BUT insist that they do this. Spain needs to clean up their act and stop these crooks. If you contact the spanish authorities directly they will advise you to report it to your local police anyway.
My sympathies to those that have lost money to this scam, but you can consider it like a world vision sponsorship – except the starving african kiddy is infact a fat african con man – and you cant claim your donation as a tax deduction.
December 12th, 2008
Some weeks ago my family from Lithuania got the same letter from David Johnson jr
December 14th, 2008
dont fall for it. What can I say
December 17th, 2008
Hi
Just recieved this letter, we live in Devon Uk.I was very suspious of this letter as we come from a large family on both sides, and none of the other close relatives had recieved a letter, and we do not have relatives living in spain. So I am glad I looked him up on the internet, I am sure my details have been released because I got a store card from one of the leading stores, since then I have been receiving lots of junk mail, even though I ticked the box saying I did not want my details released and did not want any information from other companies. Be warned of store cards and the fact that they may give out your name and address.
have a good christmas everyone.
December 18th, 2008
December 15th, 2008 – Greece
THE LETTER HAS REACHED GREECE!!!
I received almost the same letter from Spain from David Wilson this time. I e-mailed him back and he sent me the same reply i saw above. I am embarrassed to say i believed it for a few seconds as i have deceased relatives in Spain! What a coincidence!
Does anyone know if we are exposed to viruses since he has our e-mail?
December 22nd, 2008
hello
first merry xmas to you all (except davy of course)
if you read thru the whole list you will see that i was in the chain about june.
he sees to be still at it- why? he must be dumb as i did point out that this website exists and that he is known to be a crook.
anyway, perhaps he just likes to have emails from people?
our police (australia) is too busy to worry about this idiot so…
perhaps just bombard him with emails-not using your real email of course- eventually he might give up?
cheers
January 16th, 2009
hi everyone i to recieved a letter from a david wilson from johnson and associates in madrid on the 11th of december so i replied to all of his questions and thought you just never know .but i,m just gutted i never came apone this website ,we e-maild back and forth for a few weeks and he told me time was running out i had to act fast. so i got the 8,200 euros went to madrid on the 13th of january for peace of mind ,i never actually ment him he came up we the story his father was in hospital so i had a feeling then ,he then sent his secetary for me and off we went to tjhis place i filled out a few forms but refused to pay the fees until i saw the money or they had made the transaction they took me back to my hotel and i never heard them again.i was made to think i was to inherir 22,000,000 u.s.d from a deceased fredrick wilson from a car accident in march 2005 .now that i am home i have been in touch and he just called me a stupid woman for not following his orders ,i told him my solicitor is on to him and he hung up the phone ,then he e-mailed me saying we can resolve this if you pay another 2.000 euros and transfer the rest by western union to his home address which is 112 don carlos avd madrid aspana .so entone out there who gets a letter as such put it in the bin as were not all so lucky .
January 18th, 2009
First off I wonder how anyone can lose money from this scam. Before even reading a word I new it was a scam. What gave it away?
1)My last name is never listed
2) Spelling mistakes
3) I worked at a law office
4) He does not even know the name of his own company he writes Johnson and Lawyers and Johnson and Associates
I could probably come up with another 100 or so mistakes. However what really gave it away was the first word. Anytime someone tells you, you have won money you have not.
Besides even if you guys are stupid enough to full for it and I know some of you above did and god bless your stupid brains. However how the hell do you pay this dude money to make money.
Are you seriously braindead? I mean fall for the scam and all thats one thing but why would anyone need to pay money if your inheriting money. That does not make any sense.
Besides the fact its a clear fraud. Though its not like I feel great for finding this out i feel bad for all of you trumpeting around here like wow I am so smart I cracked the code. What code you should feel stupid for not being able to.
January 20th, 2009
Guess what guys – The swine has changed his name to David Wilson a partner at Johnson & Associates SA
His line is exactly the same and his tel No is 00 34 20772204 or 00 34 690376654
The ‘Company website’ looks real but the story is exactly thre same, even down to the deceased’s name – Frederick.
I wonder if Interpol or someone could close the guy down, any ideas.
January 27th, 2009
Hello folks! Our dear David Wilson from Madrid has now reached France (and as I don’t want my fellow countrymen get fooled, I will leave a few words in French to alert them. Maybe the webmaster could put this warning in French at the beginning of the above long list as I know that a lot of French do not speak English).
As many of you, I realised it was a swindle, but I wanted to get some fun!
So, David Wilson is now a partner of Johnson & Lawyers Espana (and there is a web site of this name, where there IS a David Wilson, son of the founder -funny enough, the father has not the same, he’s called André Johnson!) None of the phone numbers correspond to the ones he gives us and so on… I use the fax to contact him
I have sent my prommissory note and got an answer 20 minutes after !!!
I have now to send an application for inheritance claim as follows:
Att; Mr Alberto Garcias
PROSEGUR FINANZAS Y SEGURIDAD SA
Dept of Vault & Claims
Avda Gran Via 177-179
Barcelona, Spain
Fax: + 34933807423
Dear Sir,
I’m ….. and maybe related to a deceased client of yours who was a victim of an accident in 2005. Mr Frederick Martins Philippe, date of birth May 21st 1947, last address as: 17 Aveneda de Barcelona, Las Matas (LOL) Madrid Spain. It is also my knowledge that my possible relative has an unclaimed deposit of $22,000,000 (Twenty two million USA Dollar)
As a possible relation, My solicitor Barrister David Wilson is in possession of every document you might require including the Power of Appointment which empowers me to make this application as heir/beneficiary and next of kin of the deceased.
Please accept this late application as it was due to family logistic problems consequent upon his funera rights.
Thanks in anticipation of your cooperative response.
(here, my name) + my fax number.
I intend to go on, as I want to give the French police the maximum of information. I will let you know what happens…!
AVERTISSEMENT aux internautes francais
Une vaste escroquerie, qui a touché les US, l’Australie, l’Irlande, l’Allemagne etc…comme la liste ci-dessus vous l’a montré atteint maintenant la France.
Il s’agit de vous faire “hériter” de 22 millions de dollars, qui seraienr en déshérence en Espagne, déposé par un riche client décédé sans testament et qui porterait le même nom que vous (mais ce nom n’est pas précisé!). Cette lettre arrive par courrier, postée à Madrid, et semble officielle -Johnson & Associates S.A, ou Johnson & Lawyers Espana. Ell est en anglais, on vous demande de la faire traduire par une personne de confiance, et vous devez prendre contact par fax ou par mail avec un David Wilson(dwil5858@yahoo.es ou davjw58@gmail.com – des adresses très professionnelles !!!) Il vous donne aussi un n° de tél. Attention, il existe un site web Johnson & Lawyers, mais complètement bidon où ce nom apparait comme celui du fils du fondateur.
Si vous répondez, il vous demandera de signer et renvoyer une “promissory note” (un billet à ordre) par lequel vous acceptez de lui reverser 50% des 22 patates!
Pour l’instant, je continue à entretenir la relation pour voir à quel moment il va me demander des sous! et quand mon dossier sera le plus avancé possible, je vais aller direct déposer tout ça au tribunal avec une plainte en bonne et due forme.
Surtout, ne croyez pas un mot de cette histoire, c’est encore un estampage à la nigériane et destiné à faire payer les gogos! Lisez ce qu’en dit, du moins de vue légal et international Phil de Melbourne ci-dessus (ou ci-dessous, peut-être) Il dit aussi que bien des gens y ont perdu des sommes monstrueuses.
SURTOUT, BE AWARE!!!
January 30th, 2009
Le salopard mène rondement les choses: nous voici au point crucial! Outre quelques documents divers et variés, je dois avoir 8200 euros pour payer des honoraires d’assurance etc… et je dois me rendre en personne à Madrid pour les remettre en mains propres (lol) à la Prosegur etc. Le plus marrant, c’est que j’ai reçu le fax du salopard (où il me disait de prévoir un jour à Madrid) AVANT le fax de Prosegur m’informant de la nécessité d’une présence sur place!!
(il fatigue, le garçon, avec tous ces gogos qui correspondent avec lui?) J’attends encore un peu, je vais les laisser mariner, puis direct le tribunal: je me demande si on ne peut pas leur tendre un piège pour les prendre en flagrant délit, avec l’aide incognito de la justice et ou de la police….? Par ailleurs, je ne sais pas si le quotidien local passerait un avertissement…. Je vais quand même les joindre.
Suite du feuilleton bientôt…et en attendant, ne vous faites pas avoir!
February 2nd, 2009
A flonflon du bal et tous autres internautes français susceptibles d’avoir été la cible de la même arnaque :
Le terme “direct le Tribunal” démontre une totale méconnaissance des réalités judiciaires.
D’une part il bien diffcile de faire convoquer devant un tribunal quelqu’un dont on ne connait ni le vrai nom ni la véritable adresse.
Le système de l’escroquerie repose sur quelques personnes qui utilisent une fausse adresse à Madrid, le numéro de téléphone d’un hôtel à Salamanque et quelques autres adresses plus fausses les unes que les autres.
Les personnes qui ne répondent pas aux premières sollicitations et ne reçoient aucune demande de verser de l’argent ne sont victimes de rien et ne peuvent donc pas être plaignants.
D’autre part, la lecture des mails de personnes qui sont leurs cibles démontre qu’ils ne cherchent pas à pièger de résident en Espagne.
Ils seront donc tranquilles tant qu’une victime, c’est à dire à minima quelqu’un a qui de l’argent ou une promesse de remise d’argent a été demandée, ne fera pas parvenir, par les voies appropriées une dénonciation permettant aux autorités espagnoes d’enquêter.
à Paris, un service de police spécialisé en déliquance astucieuse est saisi.
Il serait bien que les internautes français qui ont porté plainte auprès un autre service le fassent savoir au service qu’ils ont saisi ou bien se fassent connaître et que ceux qui n’ont reçu une demande d’envoyer de l’argent ou d’en apporter en Espagne et qui n’ont pas encore porté plainte se fassent connaître, par exemple à l’adresse suivante que j’écri sous une forme inutilisable par les collecteurs d’adresse :
LUCAsoixante-huit en chiffre at i grec mail point com
February 6th, 2009
We nearly fell for this scam ,we showed our solicitorand she had seen other letters recieved. thank goodness we never went over.
February 8th, 2009
bonjour
j’habite en Belgique et j’ai moi aussi reçu cette fameuse lettre me certifiant être l’heureuse bénéficiaire de 22 millions de dollars
il est bien évident que c’est une arnaque et je vais déposer plainte afin que des personnes trop crédules ne tombent pas dans le piège
si quelqu’un a déjà fait cette démarche, ce serait sympa de m’en informer
February 12th, 2009
David Wilson as he is now known has just tried to scam my mum and we cottoned on quickly.Come on police catch this tosser before he takes more peoples money cant be that hard surely.So to all out there be careful lets face it 22million dollars a bit much money to shell out to someone just sharing the deceased name think about it …..and to you Mr Wilson you will get caught and have your sorry ass flung in jail to rot