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Info on the number +2348179856040

Telephone number +2348179856040 is a number from Nigeria. The area code is 817. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Etisalat Nigeria.

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: 234
Country Name: Nigeria
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: Etisalat Nigeria
Validity: The number is the correct length for a Nigerian mobile phone number.

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

1st February 2017 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 1st February 2017, telephone number +2348179856040 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Paul Sule using email address zenithbank.atmremittdept@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.

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

*NOTE* Phone numbers can be regularly re-assigned if the person using them stops paying the bill. This number was included in scammer emails or websites on the dates shown above, but may have since been reassigned. If you have evidence of more recent scam activity using the number, please use the contact page to let us know or post the details in our forum. You can also add brief comments in the comments section below.

This number could also be written in the following formats

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0102348179856040 234 817 985 6040 234 8179856040 234-8179856040 234-817-9856-040
234-817-985-6040 234-81-79856040 +234 817 985 6040 +234 8179856040 +234-8179856040
+234-817-9856-040 +234-817-985-6040 +234-81-79856040 00234 817 985 6040 00234 8179856040
00234-8179856040 00234-817-9856-040 00234-817-985-6040 00234-81-79856040 011234 817 985 6040
011234 8179856040 011234-8179856040 011234-817-9856-040 011234-817-985-6040 011234-81-79856040
0011234 817 985 6040 0011234 8179856040 0011234-8179856040 0011234-817-9856-040 0011234-817-985-6040
0011234-81-79856040 010234 817 985 6040 010234 8179856040 010234-8179856040 010234-817-9856-040
010234-817-985-6040 010234-81-79856040 (+234) 8179-856040