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Telephone number +27784033653 is a number from South Africa. The area code is 78. 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:

2nd January 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 2nd January 2018, telephone number +27784033653 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be James Jacobs Michelle using email address atm2017@representative.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 Valued Customer

This is to acknowledge the receipt of the order from the Federal Ministry Of Finance, in respect with the provision act of decree 114 of the 1999 constitution; I am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is correct. Therefore, we are happy to inform you that arrangements have been concluded to proceed with your payment as soon as possible and in our bid to transparency.

It is my pleasure to inform you that ATM Card Number; 5000-0049-0204-0003 has been approved in your favour. Your Personal Identification Number is 5266. The ATM Card Value is (11,000,000.00) Eleven Million Dollars Only. You are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of $5,000.00 dollars is permitted on withdrawal per Day and we are duly Inter Switch and you can make withdrawal in any Inter Switch location and ATM Center of your choice.

As stated in FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s Email to you the Approval Slip is only $2200 dollars. As soon as payment is confirmed we shall immediately transafer your funds into your Bank account and dispatch your ATM Card package, email you with the UPS tracking numbers so as for you to be able to track your ATM card package online and know when to be at home to receive it. Please be informed that the ATM card and the pin would be enclosed in the envelope and you can make withdrawals from the moment you receive the package, and the ATM Card will expire 2022.

You will have to make the payment of $2200 available to this office using Money Gram or Western Union with my Accountant's information's as stated below.

Receivers name: Tebogo Gladys Thantsa
Address: 100 Highlands North Johannesburg South Africa
Test Question: Favourite colour
Answer: Blue
Amount: $2200

As soon as payment is made do send an email with the 10-Digit MTCN numbers so that we can proceed with transfering your funds and dispatching of your ATM card package without wasting time. Be rest assured that your $2200 is the only payment you will have to make for the Approval Slip of your ATM card and nothing more.

Thanks I we wait to hear from you.

My regards to your family.

Mrs. James Jacobs Michelle
Office Telephone Numbers: +27-630574646
Office Telephone Numbers: +27-784033653
South Africa Head office Address: Department of Logistics International Relations and Cooperation 2nd Floor Gauteng, City of Johannesburg.
London Head Office Address: 123 St John's Wood road City of Westminster London UK.
London Branch Office Telephone: +44 70 1291 0824

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