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Telephone number +22998642500 is a number from Benin. The area code is 98. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones.

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
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:

14th February 2024 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 14th February 2024, telephone number +22998642500 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr. Ben Good using email address www.wumtphbr1@outlook.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.
Attention: Beneficiary,

I am DR.GREY FOUN,from Ministry Of Finance Cotonou (Head office)
Compensation Department. This is to bring to your notice that after
the conference meeting we had with the World Health
Organization(W.H.O.), The Government of this country realized that you
are among those that are involved in scam/ covid-19 pandemic victim we
have in our list that are yet to receive their compensation as
instructions from the World Human Right. The President of this Country
Benin Republic has instructed this office to forward your file to
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER PAYMENT HEADQUARTER to pay you the sum of
US$2.5000.00 through WESTERN UNION.His Excellence the PRESIDENT has
instructed the WESTERN UNION payment department director, Dr. Ben Good
to send the sum of $2.5000.00US through his custody for easy receival
of your fund. You are to contact them now to ensure that your fund
will be transferring to you once you send them the needed information
to avoid wrong transaction according to the demands of WESTERN UNION
MONEY TRANSFER.

I have paid for the transfer charge. And you will be receiving your
fund at the installment rate of $10,000.00 daily until the US
$2.5000.00 is completely transferred to you accordingly. You are to
contact
them now with the bellow information to avoid wrong transaction/transfer.
Reconfirm your address
(1)Your Full name:...................
(2)Your Age:.........................
(3)Your Phone number :...............
(4)Your Contact address/Country :....
(5)Idd or Driving Licence............

Listen very carefully, tell DR.BEN GOOD that you are advised to
contact him by DR.GREY FOUN. from Ministry Of Finance here in Cotonou
Benin ;Bellow is their Contact Information.
Contact him with this information below:
CONTACT PERSON: DR. BEN GOOD
EMAIL: : ( www.wumtphbr1@outlook.com )
PHONE NUMBER: +229-98642500.
ADDRESS: 455 Agbokou Ankpa Road,Lagoste Palar,Cotonou,Benin
Republic.

Please, do not forget to update us on:- (
federalministryoffinancebeninrep@aol.com) as soon as you
receive your first payment.

Best regards.
Dr.Grey Foun.
Ministry of Finance Benin Republic.

NOW CONTACT WESTERN UNION ( www.wumtphbr1@outlook.com ) FOR YOUR FUND.

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

18th June 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 18th June 2018, telephone number +22998642500 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr. Ben Good using email address wupobr@web.co.zw 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.
Attention: Beneficiary,

I am DR.GREY FOUN,from Ministry Of Finance Cotonou (Head office) Compensation Department. This is to bring to your notice that after the conference meeting we had with the International Monetary Fund(I.M.F), The Government of this country realized that you are among those that are involved in scam victim we have in our list that are yet to receive their compensation as instructions from the World Human Right. The President of this Country Benin Republic has instructed this office to forward your file to WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER PAYMENT HEADQUARTER to pay you the sum of US$1.200.000 through WESTERN UNION.

His Excellence the PRESIDENT has instructed the WESTERN UNION payment department director, Dr. Ben Good to send the sum of $1.200.000US through his custody for easy receival of your fund. You are to contact them now to ensure that your fund will be transferring to you once you send them the needed information to avoid wrong transaction.
According to the demands of WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER , I have paid for the transfer charge. And you will be receiving your fund at the installment rate of $5,000.00 daily until the US $1.200.000 is completely transferred to you accordingly. You are to contact them now with the bellow information to avoid wrong transaction/transfer.

Reconfirm your address
(1)Your Full name:...................
(2)Your Age:.........................
(3)Your Phone number :.................
(4)Your Contact address/Country :.....
(5)Idd or Driving Licence.............

Listen very carefully, tell DR.BEN GOOD that you are advised to contact him by DR.GREY FOUN. from Ministry Of Finance here in Cotonou Benin ;Bellow is their Contact Information.

Contact him with this information below:

CONTACT PERSON: DR. BEN GOOD
EMAIL: address :( wupobr@web.co.zw )
PHONE NUMBER: +229-98642500.
ADDRESS: 455 Agbokou Ankpa Road,Lagoste Palar,Cotonou,Benin Republic.

Please, do not forget to update us on:- ( federalministryoffinancebeninrepublic201@outlook.com ) as soon as you receive your first payment.

Best regards.
Dr.Grey Foun.
Ministry of Finance Benin Republic.

NOW CONTACT WESTERN UNION ( wupobr@web.co.zw ) FOR YOUR FUND.

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

12th June 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 12th June 2018, telephone number +22998642500 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr. Ben Good using email address wuobr2015@outlook.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.
SEND AND RECEIVE MONEY WORLDWIDE:
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER HEADQUARTER,OFFICE,BENIN REP.


ADDRESS : W27 Godomey,Akpapka Dome,Cotonou,Republique du Benin.
EMAIL: ( wuobr2015@outlook.com )
PHONE : +229-98642500
DATE: 11 --06--2018
WEBSITE: www.westernunion.com
Money Transfer | Global Money Transfer | WU United States
www.westernunion.com
Use Western Union to send money online or in person to friends and family around the world to more than 200 countries and territories from the United States.

FROM THE DESK OF THE PAYMENT OFFICER
WESTERN UNION HEADQUARTER,
COTONOU, BENIN REPUBLIC.


Attention beneficiary customer:

Once again,this office wishes to inform you that your fund $1.2m us which was deposited with this office by one, Mr. Foun Grey of the over due contract, inheritance,winnings and scam victim compensation distribution department,under Federal Ministry of Finance,Benin Republic and International Monetary Fund(I.M.F.), is ready to be send to you according to the agreement we had with him, which indicates that we should be sending to you daily payment of $5,000.00 us until your total sum of $1.2 m is completely transferred to you.

After our Meeting with the depositors of the fund, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE BENIN REPUBLIC in combination with International Monetary Fund(I.M.F.), we were instructed to start transferring your fund to you which we have done but we later dictated that your account file here was DORMANT so it needs to be Re-activate to enable the transfer,although,the pick up information is ready here on my table but you cannot by any means pick it without paying for the RE-ACTIVATION CHARGE ( $70 US) as your depositor did not pay for it.

The agreement was that we shall be sending you your payment at install mental rate of $5,000.00 us two times, making it $10,000 usd everyday until your total fund $1.2m is completely transferred to you.

You are assured that as soon as this Re-activation charge is paid, we shall release your first payment and send to you the information to pick it up there in your area and this should be done within 3 working days or the fund will be send back to Federal Government and it will be confiscated into their treasure.

We therefore urge you to proceed immediately to any nearest western union or Money Gram and send this Re-activation charge through the name of our cashier with the information as listed below:

RECEIVER NAME:... DENNIS ILOCHI
ADDRESS:........ Park Road,Cotonou,Benin Rep.
CITY :......... Cotonou
COUNTRY:........Benin Republic
TEXT/QUEST:......Trust
ANSWER:.........In God
AMOUNT:.........$ 70 US Only
M.T.C.N:........
SENDER NAME;....
SENDER ADD:......

Forward to us all these information as soon as you send the money and also attach to us the payment slip and be very careful not to make any mistake while filling out the payment information.

You are assured that as soon as this money is confirmed paid, your first payment of $5000usd will be released to you within the space of 4 hours so you can pick it there in your area.

REMEMBER, YOU ARE GIVEN ONLY 3 WORKING DAYS TO PAY THIS FEE OR WE CANCEL THIS TRANSACTION.

NOTE: THE REASON WHY WE NEED YOU TO SEND US THIS MONEY IS THAT WE TRIED TO DEDUCT IT OUT FROM YOUR FUND BUT IT IS A VERY STRICT LAW ABIDING ALL WESTERN UNION AND SECONDLY,THE MINISTER ADMINISTRATOR TRUST FUND OF BENIN REPUBLIC INSTRUCTS THAT NO ONE SHOULD TEMPER WITH YOUR FUND AS NO ONE HAS ACCESS OVER YOUR FUND BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SIGNED AND STAMPED THAT NO MONEY SHOULD BE DEDUCTED UNTIL IT GETS TO YOU TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDING BECAUSE IF ANY ONE HAS ACCESS TO THAT IT MAY LEAD TO YOU LOOSING YOUR FUND.

Waiting for your urgent reply with the payment information for our urgent release of your first payment.

Thanks for your understandings.

Faithfully yours

Dr.Ben Good
Payment officer
Call free: +229-98642500

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

28th February 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 28th February 2018, telephone number +22998642500 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr. Ben Good using email address wumthobrepublic@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.
SEND AND RECEIVE MONEY WORLDWIDE:
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER HEADQUARTER,OFFICE,BENIN REP.

ADDRESS : W27 Godomey,Akpapka Dome,Cotonou,Republique du Benin.
EMAIL: ( wumthobrepublic@hotmail.com )
PHONE : +229-98642500
DATE: 16 --02--2018
WEBSITE: www.westernunion.com

FROM THE DESK OF THE PAYMENT OFFICER
WESTERN UNION HEADQUARTER,
COTONOU, BENIN REPUBLIC.


Attention beneficiary customer:

This is to inform you that your fund $1.2m us which was deposited with this office by one, Mr. Foun Grey of the over due contract, inheritance,winnings and scam victim compensation distribution department,under Federal Ministry of Finance,Benin Republic and International Monetary Fund(I.M.F.), is ready to be send to you according to the agreement we had with him, which indicates that we should be sending to you daily payment of $5,000.00 us until your total sum of $1.2 m is completely transferred to you.

After our Meeting with the depositors of the fund, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE BENIN REPUBLIC in combination with International Monetary Fund(I.M.F.), yesterday, we were instructed to start transferring your fund to you which we have done but we later dictated that your account file here was DORMANT so it needs to be Re-activate to enable the transfer,although,the pick up information is ready here on my table but you cannot by any means pick it without paying for the RE-ACTIVATION CHARGE ( $70 US) as your depositor did not pay for it.

The agreement was that we shall be sending you your payment at install mental rate of $5,000.00 us two times, making it $10,000 usd everyday until your total fund $1.2m is completely transferred to you.

You are assured that as soon as this Re-activation charge is paid, we shall release your first payment and send to you the information to pick it up there in your area and this should be done within 3 working days or the fund will be send back to Federal Government and it will be confiscated into their treasure.

We therefore urge you to proceed immediately to any nearest western union or Money Gram and send this Re-activation charge through the name of our cashier with the information as listed below:

RECEIVER NAME:... LOUIS NWA
ADDRESS:........ Park Road,Cotonou,Benin Rep.
CITY :......... Cotonou
COUNTRY:........Benin Republic
TEXT/QUEST:......Trust
ANSWER:.........In God
AMOUNT:.........$ 70 US Only
M.T.C.N:........
SENDER NAME;....
SENDER ADD:......

Forward to us all these information as soon as you send the money and also attach to us the payment slip and be very careful not to make any mistake while filling out the payment information.

You are assured that as soon as this money is confirmed paid, your first payment of $5000usd will be released to you within the space of 4 hours so you can pick it there in your area.

REMEMBER, YOU ARE GIVEN ONLY 3 WORKING DAYS TO PAY THIS FEE.

NOTE: THE REASON WHY WE NEED YOU TO SEND US THIS MONEY IS THAT WE TRIED TO DEDUCT IT OUT FROM YOUR FUND BUT IT IS A VERY STRICT LAW ABIDING ALL WESTERN UNION AND SECONDLY,THE MINISTER ADMINISTRATOR TRUST FUND OF BENIN REPUBLIC INSTRUCTS THAT NO ONE SHOULD TEMPER WITH YOUR FUND AS NO ONE HAS ACCESS OVER YOUR FUND BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SIGNED AND STAMPED THAT NO MONEY SHOULD BE DEDUCTED UNTIL IT GETS TO YOU TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDING BECAUSE IF ANY ONE HAS ACCESS TO THAT IT MAY LEAD TO YOU LOOSING YOUR FUND.

Waiting for your urgent reply with the payment information for our urgent release of your first payment.

Thanks for your understandings.

Faithfully yours

Dr.Ben Good
Payment officer
Call free: +229-98642500

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.

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