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Telephone Number +19179796319 is a NANP Number and is in Area Code 917, Exchange Code 979 in New York (NY), USA. The Exchange is designated as being used for Wireless telephones. This Exchange Code is allocated to the Town/City of Staten Island, Richmond County. The number was originally operated by the provider Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC - NY.

Number portability may mean that this number is no longer used as a Wireless 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: 1
Country Name: USA
Area Name: New York (NY) (917)
Exchange Name : Staten Island, Richmond County (979)
Type: Wireless
Original Provider: Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC - NY
Validity: The number is the correct length for a North American number.

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

17th January 2019 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 17th January 2019, telephone number +19179796319 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be John C. Williams working as President for Federal Reserve Bank of New York using email address fr_b2018@hotmail.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.
Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America
Founded: 1914, New York City, New York, United States
ADDRESS: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001

From the desk of Mr John C. Williams.

Your payment files from three (3) different delivery companies/agents DHL, UPX, FEDEX AND four (4) different banks, Natwest Bank of London, Central Bank of Nigeria, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Bank of America was compiled and submitted to my desk for review. The total sum owed to you by the 3 delivery companies and the 4 banks mentioned above was sum up to the tune of US$15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). Now the fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account (non deductible) here in the Federal Reserve Bank on your name, while waiting for accreditation to your personal bank account in any part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you have fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the release of your payment to you, but yet your payment was not released to you due to one flimsy excuses or the other from the delivery agents/Bank officials in charge of your payment, because they had the intention of diverting your funds to their private accounts in order to satisfy their selfish interest.

We apologize for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, Meanwhile (Mr William C. Dudley) the former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was in-charge and could not complete this transaction before retiring from office on June 18, 2018. He was not able to complete your transaction due to your lack of fund or other reasons as it may be.

After a brief meeting with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Board Members we agreed that all PENDING TRANSACTION should be taking care of and be transferred to their prospective owners/beneficiaries, Also note that the fee was reduced from $1850 to $150 only to enable all beneficiaries PAY within 7 days(a week) and have access to their fund without further delay, Also note that failure to comply with this email/come up with the fee your fund will be totally canceled and be transferred into the United States Treasurer's account.

Now, All modalities regarding your fund release has been put in place here in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, thus, your funds has been made ready for transfer in our sophisticated macro transfer system, what we need from you now is to provide to us the bank account of your choice which you want us to transfer your funds so we can expedite action for the accreditation of your funds into your account immediately.

Below are the information needed now for your transfer.

Full Name:
Bank full information:
Residential Address:
Passport/Id copy:
City/State/Country:
Occupation:
Mobile/Phone Number:

In anticipating for your urgent cooperation

Yours sincerely,
Mr. John C. Williams
President Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Phone No +1 (917-979-6319)

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This number could also be written in the following formats

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