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Info on the number +27718757490

Telephone number +27718757490 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 718. 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.

General information about +27718757490

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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Scam alerts for +27718757490

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

9th January 2025 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 9th January 2025, telephone number +27718757490 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Themba Nkosi using email address thembisachambers@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.
ATTN

Thanks for your mail

Since you can't travel down to south africa for the completion of this transaction , then from the inquiries i made you have the option to appoint a bank accredited lawyer that will represent and ct on your behalf here towards the completion of this transaction

I have contacted the bank accredited lawyers that i got their contacts and one of them have agreed to represent and act on your behalf since you can't travel down to south africa in person

Please find the details of the lawyer

ADVOCATE THEMBA NKOSI
PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY
THEMBISA CHAMBERS AND ASSOCIATES
THEMBA NKOSI ATTORNEYS, PUBLIC NOTARIES & CONVEYANCERS
ADDRESS - EXT 7 LINDERN BUSINESS PARK,
OLIVEDALE, JOHANNESBURG 2190
WHATSAPP - + 27 71 875 7490
EMAIL - thembisachambers@gmail.com

Please contact him immediately and introduce yourself as the foreign business partner to the umaru family. Please inform him that you will like him to assist you in opening a new bank account with one of the banks in south africa where the funds will be deposited into as soon as it is brought out of the security company where my late father deposited teh consignment and he will also prepare and investment agreement between you and my family which we will review and sign as we proceed further with this transaction

Please feel free to ask him all the necessary questions related to the fund transfer of this funds to your safe bank account overseas and you must also assure my family that these funds will be safe under your care and custody until me and my mother arrives your country for our investments and sharing of percentages as stated by my mother in my last email to you

Please inform us the possibilities of investing our own shares into real estates and hotel managements upon our arrival as it will be done under your care and supervision

Please keep me informed with your discussions with the lawyer and send me your private mobile number for easier communication

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Best Regards.

MR. LAWAL MAHMUD HAMZA UMARU
PRIVATE FAMILY EMAIL umarufamily11@gmail.com

Further details of this report can be found on the ScamSurvivors.com forum

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