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Info on the number +27866017402

Telephone number +27866017402 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 866. The number is designated as being used for Special Service telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Fax to Email.

Number portability may mean that this number is no longer used as a Special Service 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: Special Service
Original Provider: Fax to Email
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:

7th January 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 7th January 2018, telephone number +27866017402 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Alexander L Thambo using email address alexander.thambo@lawyer.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 XXX

Compliments of the season and how are you and family today, hopefully every one is in good health and glory be to Almighty God, I am glad to receive your reply, I am speaking to you from a shattered mind and I hope God is going to direct us to the right part to accomplish this dream of humanitarian support, my husband’s family members have shattered my mind and made me to understand how wicked human beings can be.

My husband brothers are desperate to take over my inheritance using force, they want me dead by every means because of my inheritance, they have claimed everything my late husband left for me, the only thing remaining is the money my late husband deposited in my name and they don't know anything about the deposit otherwise I would have been dead by now because of this money $15.5Million US Dollars.

Please contact my Lawyer for more guidelines through this contact details below:
NAME: BARRISTER ALEXANDER L THAMBO
TEL: +27- 73-650 0744
FAX: +27- 86 601 7402
EMAIL: alexander.thambo@lawyer.com
ADDRESS: #15 Smartt Road Sandown
Johannesburg, South Africa

My lawyer is standing by to assist you with the legal documentation needed to make sure the Bank release the money to any of your bank account, please I want this project to be carried out as quickly as possible, first My lawyer is going to make sure that the inheritance documents of the fund are changed to your name as this will be the most important right steps to take as he has said, so even if I die on the way, my mind will rest because the money is in your name, you will be in a position to inherit the fund and use it as I wished for the purpose of helping the needy and less privilege.

My condition is bad and becoming worst day by day and this is giving me sleepless nights and making me worry too much, I want to make sure I sign all the necessary documents needed to be signed in other to make a new inheritance and fund new beneficiary to your name, please kindly contact my lawyer on his contact information above. Lastly I want to confirm and assure you as well that you are entitling of 25% of the total fund as long as you guarantee me of fulfilling my heart wishes, also find my attached International Passport copy including recent hospital admission photograph.

I am looking forward to hear from you again.

God bless you,

Mrs. Florence Susan Williams
Tel + 27 631 978 140

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This number could also be written in the following formats

27866017402 +27866017402 0027866017402 01127866017402 001127866017402
01027866017402 27 86 601 7402 27 (86) 601 7402 +27 86 601 7402 +27 (86) 601 7402
0027 86 601 7402 0027 (86) 601 7402 01127 86 601 7402 01127 (86) 601 7402 001127 86 601 7402
001127 (86) 601 7402 01027 86 601 7402 01027 (86) 601 7402