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Info on the number +27836850144

Telephone number +27836850144 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 83. 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:

3rd June 2020 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 3rd June 2020, telephone number +27836850144 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Vivien Ponte using email address mrs.vivienponte1@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.
Dear Sir/Madam,

I got your contact when I was searching on the internet then I came across your email contact and decided to send you charity task/proposal. I am Mrs. Vivien Ponte am 70 years old. I write to Relate to you of my intention to use my money of Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($17,500,000.00 USD) only, for charity work in your country. I was married to Late McCauley Ponte who was a contractor with the Government of South Africa before he lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. You can view this website to confirm: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm)

Am suffering from long time cancer of the breast. All indication from my doctors that my conditions are really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I wouldn’t live more than three months. This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very bad stage that no hope for me to be a living person again. 22 years period of marriage life, still we could not produce any child, my late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited some part of his business and money.

The doctors warn me to stop thinking over who is going to inherit my money, Today I have decided to donate the same of Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($17,500,000.00 USD) Only to the less privileges, charity and orphanage homes in your country . I want to know if I can trust you to use these funds for charity / orphanage and others ETC. And 30% will be yours as compensation. Please contact me on my email so that I will give you more details if you are interested to help.

Remain blessed,
Mrs. Vivien Ponte
Tel: + (27) 836 850 144
Fax: + (27) 865 384 390
My Contact Email: mrs.vivienponte1@gmail.com

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This number could also be written in the following formats

27836850144 +27836850144 0027836850144 01127836850144 001127836850144
01027836850144 27 83 685 0144 27 (83) 685 0144 +27 83 685 0144 +27 (83) 685 0144
0027 83 685 0144 0027 (83) 685 0144 01127 83 685 0144 01127 (83) 685 0144 001127 83 685 0144
001127 (83) 685 0144 01027 83 685 0144 01027 (83) 685 0144