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Telephone number +229685503867 is a number from Benin. The area code is 68. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones.

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Country Code: 229
Country Name: Benin
Type: Mobile
Validity: Benin phone numbers should be 11 digits in length including the country code.The number you searched for is 12 digits long.

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19th December 2017 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 19th December 2017, telephone number +229685503867 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Jonathan Akim using email address officefile804@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.

Here is the email that the scammer sent to his victims.
BENIN POLICE FORCE FRAUD/CONTRACT AND IDENTITY THEFT INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE COMMAND FORCE HEADQUARTERS LOUIS EDET HOUSE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT COTONOU BENIN

Attention dear ,

We received an instruction memo and letter few days ago from the New York Police Department in America that your package was freight by UPS diplomat Courier Company was stopped by the United States Joint Patrol Team in the Transport and Security Administration Department, the letter also made us to understand that your package is due for urgent repatriation back to Africa yesterday. However, as I write you now, the package has your particulars as evidence of proof of ownership, and it was returned back to Africa early hours of today, and was deposited to my station.

This notification letter report is based on the returned of your package, and you are urgently advised to give an urgent attention to this development.

Well, I have also contacted UPS office headquarters to know why all these happened and I now understand the reason why the package has been having problems on transit while in an attempt to reach you, The problem is very simple, it was because all these while, you guys never employ a police constable to follow up the delivery with a Police certified Extract Clearance Report, well, there is one way to which this package right here could reach you without long stories again, and that way is first of all, getting a Police Extract of this your package. Thereafter, I will personally bring it to your house or assign a Police Constable to escort the package to your house.

As a member of the Federal Executive Council, I to travel to your country with President Patrice Talon President of Benin for the Presidential Inauguration of your president last Year, assuming your package came to my office earlier than this; I would have come to the state along with it. Meanwhile, The cost of getting this package to your doorstep is nothing to be compared to what you had spent before, the only protocol to be observed is for you to get the Police Extract Clearance Report of the package, and this clearance certificate shall cost you the sum of $185 and this is the only money you have to pay for the package to get to you. However, if you can rally round and get just only $185. I will help you with all that processes therein, I will also help you get the Police Extract and transport the package a long side the entourage of the presidential convoy, though it will be stressful on me, but I can help you do it if you can send the sum $185 as early as possible today. I will use the money to settle the pilot and some officials so that nobody will disturb the movement as we come to meet you in your house.

Receivers Name: Joel Ide
Country: Benin Republic
City: Porto-Novo
Test Question: When
Test Answer: Today
Amount: $185 only

If truly you want us to bring this package to your doorstep then you have to find this money and send today to above given names so that I can obtain a Police Extract Clearance that will enhance a hitch-free delivery to your doorstep and the shipment shall be delivered on Saturday evening at your house, please also re-confirm your personal home address and ID for easy identification upon arrival, I shall also need to have your direct telephone number so that I can call and reach you right from the airport.

1. FULL NAME...............
2. TELEPHONE...............
3. FAX................................................
7. CURRENT RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.....................
8. ID CARD COPY: ...............

Best Regards,

Yours Faithfully,
Jonathan Akim,
Inspector General of Police
office email::::::: officefile804@gmail.com
Tel: +229685503867

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