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Telephone number +22966659697 is a number from Benin. The area code is 66. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider BéninCell.

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: 229
Country Name: Benin
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: BéninCell
Validity: The number is the correct length for a Benin phone number.

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

21st February 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 21st February 2018, telephone number +22966659697 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Pastor Geoffrey Simon using email address geoffreysimon52@email.cz 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.
Money Transfer Control Number
(M.T.C.N); 7652964033
ATTENTION Beneficiary,

Be informed that the sum of three thousand dollars ($3000.00 USD) has already
been sent to you via our WESTERN UNION Money Transfer office as we have been
given the mandate to your full overdue payment, a total sum of $2.5million
USD, via the western union by the Ministry of Finance.

I tried contacting you to give you the necessary information to enable you
pick up your funds but I couldn't get through yesterday, so I decided to email
you the MTCN and sender’s name so that you can pick up the $3,000.00 to
enable us send another $3,000.00 by tomorrow. As you know already we will be
sending you ,$,3000.00 only per day. And it was agreed that you are to pay the
clearance certificate charges a total sum of $185 before you are enabled to
pick up your first payment, do take note of this, that you are to pay the $185
before picking up your first payment.

Go to any western union office in your locality to pick up the $3000.00 which
is currently active and endeavor to call me as soon as you get this mail as
the only Operation Manager in charge of your payment, and I will send you
another payment tomorrow once you pick up the first one, contact me once you
pick the ,$3000.00 USD today.

Below is the western union information to pick up the $3,000.00 USD; which you
will be receiving daily after you send the transfer clearance certificate
charges of $185 and it will serve as re-confirmation of your payment file in
this office.

NOTE: That you cannot pick up these funds if the transfer clearance

SENDER FIRST NAME::: Julian
SENDER LAST NAME:::: Ceasar
MTCN::::::::::::::: 7652964033
TEXT QUESTION:::::: HONEST?
TEXT ANSWER:::::::: TRSUT
AMOUNT: $3,000.00

track it and be sure OK.I will be waiting to hear from you with the transfer
clearance certificate payment of $185 today.

Regards,
Pastor.Geoffrey simon.
CALL ME +229-666-596-97

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