+14088830813

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This topic gives information about the telephone number +14088830813, which has been identified as being used by scammers as part of their scam. This first post gives some general information about the telephone number, such as the country/area it is from, the type of number and the provider. Additional posts give information about occurrences of the number being used as part of a scam.

About telephone number +14088830813

Telephone number +14088830813 has a country code of 1, which indicates that it is from North American Numbering Plan (NANP) area. The area code (408) indicates that the number covers the State of California, USA and the Exchange Code (883) indicates that the number covers the town or city of San Jose. This Exchange code was originally designated for Landline usage and the original service provider was "BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC, LLC - CA".

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Telephone number +14088830813 is being used as part of an Advance Fee Fraud Scam by someone claiming to be "Christine Lagarde" and using the email address revpaul110@gmail.com. The telephone number is included in the following Advance Fee Fraud email that is being sent to victims:

FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20423-0002

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY

This is to officially inform you that we have completed an investigation on an International Payment in which was issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the help of our newly developed technology (International Monitoring Network System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum of $10.5million USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. We have authorized this winning to be paid to you via SWIFT ATM CARD.

The stated amount of $10.5million USD has been deposited with IMF. We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited with IMF you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Washington, D.C According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following,

(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )

CONTACT : Christine Lagarde
CALL +1(408-883-0813
E-MAIL :(revpaul110@gmail.com)

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required in order to immediately ship your prize of $10.5million USD via SWIFT ATM CARD from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction: AAE3248910. This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required Fee ONLY to Agent in-charge information in which he shall send to you,

Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
HON.Christopher ,A,Way DIRECTOR FBI,
III Director Office of Public Affairs

The email was sent from the email address "FBI OFFICE <fracesbroadrick@gmail.com>", with the Reply-to address "revpaul110@gmail.com" and the subject "FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.".

The email is a classic example of an Advance Fee Fraud Scam with promises of a large sum of money being transferred to the victim. Anyone responding to it will be told that there is a fee/tax/insurance payment to be paid to receive the money. This will be followed by payment after payment until the victim runs out of money or realises that they are being scammed.