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Info on the number +27717696600

Telephone number +27717696600 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 717. 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 January 2020 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 12th January 2020, telephone number +27717696600 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Smith Benson working for Grace Gate Diplomatic Securities Service using email address gracegatediplomatic@consultant.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 Beloved

Good Day may God bless you and guide you for me all the days of your
life.First thank you for take me as your own flesh and blood and to
see that this trunk box is shipped to your country. since i have
submitted your details to the security company as my late husband
foreign business partner.

Now all i need you to do is to open the attachment you will see the
deposit document the security company gave to my late husband the day
he deposited this trunk box so use the information on the document and
contact the security company as my late husband foreign Business
partner and advice them to ship this trunk box to your country
immediately.

Below is the contact of the security company.
GRACE GATE DIPLOMATIC SECURITIES SERVICE
PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA
TELEPHONE: 0027717696600
EMAIL: gracegatediplomatic@consultant.com
CONTACT PERSON :MR SMITH BENSON

Further more when you contact the security company do not let them
know that this trunk box contain money because when my late husband
deposit this trunk box it deposited as family Valuables this means
that the security company does not know the real content of the trunk
box.

Just go ahead now and contact the security company you can call them
or send them a mail because the work 24hours a day.

Once again thank you for your love and care towards me may God bless you.

Note : When you are contacting the security company please attach the
deposit certificate as a prove that you know about the trunk box very
well.

Please get back to me as soon as possible

Yours
Mrs Olivia

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This number could also be written in the following formats

27717696600 +27717696600 0027717696600 01127717696600 001127717696600
01027717696600 27 71 769 6600 27 (71) 769 6600 +27 71 769 6600 +27 (71) 769 6600
0027 71 769 6600 0027 (71) 769 6600 01127 71 769 6600 01127 (71) 769 6600 001127 71 769 6600
001127 (71) 769 6600 01027 71 769 6600 01027 (71) 769 6600