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This topic gives information about the telephone number +17865880296, which has been identified as being used by scammer 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 +17865880296

Telephone number +17865880296 has a country code of 1, which indicates that it is from the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) area. The area code (786) indicates that the number covers the State of Florida, USA and the Exchange Code (588) indicates that the number covers the town or city of Marathon. This Exchange code was originally designated for Landline usage and the original service provider was "BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC, LLC - FL".

Telephone number +17865880296 is being used as part of an Advance Fee Fraud Scam by someone claiming to be "Teresa L. Carlson", FBI Special Agent and using the email address fbi.a@aol.com. The telephone number is included in the following Advance Fee Fraud email that is being sent to victims:

Hello ,
This is Mrs. Teresa L. Carlson , from FBI .
I am contacting you regarding your abandon package worth of $10.5 Million USD. Kindly get back to me if you are still alive and interested to claim your package because a man called Anderson by name contacted us and he claimed to be your representative I want to no if he is truly your representative before it will be too late . I need your urgent response immediately. Thank you .
Mrs. Teresa L. Carlson, FBI Special agent. My whats-app Number is +1(786)588-0296

The email was sent from the email address "Fbi Agent <atm_centre@yahoo.com>", with the Reply-to address "fbi.a@aol.com" and the subject "Hello".

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.