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Telephone number +27837006989 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:

12th May 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 12th May 2018, telephone number +27837006989 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Gidion Buba using email address info.mrdionbuba@yahoo.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.GIDION DUBA
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL:+27-83-700-6989
Email: info.mrdionbuba@yahoo.com
Email: info.mrdionbuba.absa@gmail.com


URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Good day,

My name is Mr. Gidion Buba; the Chief Operating Officer and Accounting Unit of ABSA Bank of South Africa {ABSA} This message might meet you in utmost surprise. However, it’s just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. Your contact is by courtesy of South African Export Promotion Council (SAEPC) in Johannesburg while I was searching for a Foreign Partner. I assured of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I prayed to God about this project, there is an account opened in this bank and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not quickly remit this money out urgently from here it will be forfeited and transferred into Government treasury as unclaimed funds.

The owner of this account is Late Mr. Josef Pohl, from Germany who died along with his entire family in the plane Crash. on Monday, 31 July In 2000 and since then the fund has been in a suspense account awaiting any next of kin No one knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and the investigation proves to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount in the account at the moment is {US$28,000,000.00} Twenty Eight Million United States Dollars Only).

As the Funds is in United States Dollars I need a reliable foreign partner/account to transfer the money overseas thus I am contacting you. Please kindly indicate your interest and if so contact me on the above Email or phone numbers to enable me inform you on next step to take. I need your full co-operation to make this transaction work because the management of my bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information on this account, which I will give you if you indicate your interest. I hope you can be able to handle such amount in strict confidence because this opportunity will never come again in my life. I need reliable and truthful person in this business relationship because I don't want to make any mistake. I need your strong assurance and confidentiality. With my position now in the office I will be giving you all the information needed from the bank.

The bank will transfer this money to any reliable foreign account, with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. All documents regarding this transaction will be destroyed once I receive confirmation of the money in your account thus leaving no trace to anything. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately on confirmation to receive this fund into your designated account with appropriate clearance forms from the Ministries and Foreign Exchange Departments. At the conclusion of this business you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, while, 10% will be for expenses that we might incur during the course of this transaction.

Finally, please if you are interested in this transaction, I want you to do is to send me your Private Mobile Phone and Fax Numbers for Easy Communication including your personal Bank Account Details, where this money will be transfer (Your Bank Name, Bank Address, Account Number, Account Holder's Name, Bank Branch, Identity Number, Home and email Address. Please kindly call me on the above private phone numbers before sending a mail message for security reasons. While I'm looking forward to receive your immediate reply by phone or email as soon as you receive this letter.

Best Regards

Mr.Gidion Buba
Chief Operating Officer &
Accounting Unit of the Bank

Further details of this report can be found on our forum

12th May 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 12th May 2018, telephone number +27837006989 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Gidion Buba using email address info.mrdionbuba.absa@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.GIDION DUBA
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL:+27-83-700-6989
Email: info.mrdionbuba@yahoo.com
Email: info.mrdionbuba.absa@gmail.com


URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Good day,

My name is Mr. Gidion Buba; the Chief Operating Officer and Accounting Unit of ABSA Bank of South Africa {ABSA} This message might meet you in utmost surprise. However, it’s just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. Your contact is by courtesy of South African Export Promotion Council (SAEPC) in Johannesburg while I was searching for a Foreign Partner. I assured of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I prayed to God about this project, there is an account opened in this bank and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not quickly remit this money out urgently from here it will be forfeited and transferred into Government treasury as unclaimed funds.

The owner of this account is Late Mr. Josef Pohl, from Germany who died along with his entire family in the plane Crash. on Monday, 31 July In 2000 and since then the fund has been in a suspense account awaiting any next of kin No one knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and the investigation proves to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount in the account at the moment is {US$28,000,000.00} Twenty Eight Million United States Dollars Only).

As the Funds is in United States Dollars I need a reliable foreign partner/account to transfer the money overseas thus I am contacting you. Please kindly indicate your interest and if so contact me on the above Email or phone numbers to enable me inform you on next step to take. I need your full co-operation to make this transaction work because the management of my bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information on this account, which I will give you if you indicate your interest. I hope you can be able to handle such amount in strict confidence because this opportunity will never come again in my life. I need reliable and truthful person in this business relationship because I don't want to make any mistake. I need your strong assurance and confidentiality. With my position now in the office I will be giving you all the information needed from the bank.

The bank will transfer this money to any reliable foreign account, with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. All documents regarding this transaction will be destroyed once I receive confirmation of the money in your account thus leaving no trace to anything. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately on confirmation to receive this fund into your designated account with appropriate clearance forms from the Ministries and Foreign Exchange Departments. At the conclusion of this business you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, while, 10% will be for expenses that we might incur during the course of this transaction.

Finally, please if you are interested in this transaction, I want you to do is to send me your Private Mobile Phone and Fax Numbers for Easy Communication including your personal Bank Account Details, where this money will be transfer (Your Bank Name, Bank Address, Account Number, Account Holder's Name, Bank Branch, Identity Number, Home and email Address. Please kindly call me on the above private phone numbers before sending a mail message for security reasons. While I'm looking forward to receive your immediate reply by phone or email as soon as you receive this letter.

Best Regards

Mr.Gidion Buba
Chief Operating Officer &
Accounting Unit of the Bank

Further details of this report can be found on our forum

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01027837006989 27 83 700 6989 27 (83) 700 6989 +27 83 700 6989 +27 (83) 700 6989
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001127 (83) 700 6989 01027 83 700 6989 01027 (83) 700 6989