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Info on the number +256778282773

Telephone number +256778282773 is a number from Uganda. The area code is 77. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Zantel (Zanzibar Telecom Ltd).

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: 256
Country Name: Uganda
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: Zantel (Zanzibar Telecom Ltd)
Validity: The number is the correct length for a Ugandan phone number.

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

27th April 2022 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 27th April 2022, telephone number +256778282773 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Matia Kasaija using email address infoshiftv575@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.
Attention, Please,

This is to official inform you that the total sum of $8.500,000.00 USD
has been approved and signed in your name, the payment of
$8.500,000.00 is from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic
Development, you can verify and confirm this from the ministry of
Finance,s official website ( http://www.finance.go.ug ) you are to receive
the funds through ATM Visa Card which will be deliver to your home
address,

You will receive the ATM Visa Card from Shift Cargo Service. the
company website is this(http://www.shiftcargoservices.com)

you should contact the company with your full name and address
together with your phone on this email address
(infoshiftv575@gmail.com) so that they will give you a tracking number
of your ATM Package Contact Person is Mr Richard D. Brown phone number
+256778282773,

Best Regards
Hon. Matia Kasaija
Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development

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

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This number could also be written in the following formats

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010256778282773