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Telephone number +27638277497 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 63. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider MTN.

Number portability may mean that this number is no longer used as a Mobile number, be assigned to a different provider or be being operated from a different location (even overseas in the case of VoIP numbers). If the number is being used to call you then it is also possible that the number is being spoofed and does not actually belong to the person using it.

Here is some general information about the number.

Country Code: 27
Country Name: South Africa
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: MTN
Validity: The number is the correct length for a South African phone number.

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This number is recorded in our database for the following scams:

21st August 2019 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 21st August 2019, telephone number +27638277497 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Alex Marufu using email address alexmarufu2018@gmail.com as part of an Advance Fee Fraud Scam.

In Advance Fee Fraud Scams, the scammer will offer you something of high value (a large sum of money or gold for example) and all you have to do is pay a "small" fee. What the scammer is offering you does not actually exist and the scammer will come up with fee after fee that needs to be paid by the victims, until he either runs out of money or realises that he has been scammed. The scammer will often pretend to be real people or companies, use fake websites and introduce various characters, all with the aim of convincing the victim that what is being offered to him is real.

Here is the email that the scammer sent to his victims.
FROM: MR. Alex Marufu
TEL: +27 638-277-497
E-Mail: alexmarufu2018@gmail.com
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

CONFIDENCIAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

I cannot imagine the surprise this will bring to you, but please be rest assured is with good faith and intention from a family in dare need of your assistance to help me transfer the sum of (US$25 million) TWENTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS, into your account or company=E2=80=99s account for investment
.

Your contact information was gotten through the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry while searching for a reputable Company/person who can
help me transfer this fund out for investment.

My name is Alex Marufu, COUSIN TO MR. MUGABE=E2=80=99S WIFE, GRACE MUGABE and personal assistant in charge of the government purchases to the FORMER ZIMBABWEANPRESIDENT,MR. ROBERT MUGABE who is currently been removed from the presidency by the Zimbabwean army on Wednesday, the 15th of November 2017.

Before he was removed, I was secretly sent to SOUTH AFRICA by MRS. GRACE MUGABE to purchase some property worth USD$ 25 Million in cash for her in South Africa in August 2017 and this fund was deposited in a Security Company
in South Africa waiting for the right property to be purchased. This money
was deposited in a metal sealed box as a consignment labeled 'FAMILY TREASURE with the security Company.

Based on this change of power in Zimbabwe, I am currently living in South Africa after the arrest of Mr. Mugabe and his removal from power.

My reason for contacting you is based on the above stated fact: I am saddled here with the responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account URGENTLY where the money could be transferred upon redeemed from the security company here in Johannesburg, South Africa as I was advised by his wife, Mrs. Grace Mugabe, as the new government there now threatens to freeze all bank accounts both in and outside the Country belonging to his wife and members of his cabinet.

I want to transfer the fund to a beautiful country where people will not know us and for good investment. Please, if you are interested in helping me
to secure this money morally and financially, I will give to you 20% of the
total sum, 70% will be for my investment in your country while 10% will be used for all expenses that might be Incurred during the process of the transaction.

Do not hesitate to contact me on the above telephone number and e-mail for
further directives and clarification of this transaction. I would like you
to send me your direct telephone and your e-mail address for easy communication.

Thanks as you will co-operate fully with me.


Yours Sincerely,

Alex Marufu.

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