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Telephone number +22999449193 is a number from Benin. The area code is 99. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Globacom Ltd.

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: Globacom Ltd
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:

2nd December 2017 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 2nd December 2017, telephone number +22999449193 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr Larry John using email address j.larry00239@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.
Money Reference Number (MTCN): #237 404 0640

Attention Beneficiary

Be informed that the sum of Five thousand dollars $5000.00USD has already been sent to you via Western Union Money Transfer office as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full overdue payment worth a total sum of $4.8MillionUSD 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 $5000.00 to enable us send another $5000.00 by tomorrow.

As you know already that we will be sending you $5000.00 only per day, meanwhile it was agreed that you have to obtain a transfer clearance certificate and the charge is sum of $230.00 before you are enabled to pick up your first payment at any agent location, do take note of this, that you are to pay the $230.00 before picking up your first payment.

Go to any western union office in your location to pick up the $5000.00 which is currently active and do try to call me via (+229 99449193) as soon as you get this email 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.


Below is the western union information to pick up the $5000.00USD which you will be receiving daily after you send the clearance certificate payment of $230.00 to this office.

NOTE: That you cannot pick up these funds if the transfer clearance certificate charges is not paid.

Your first payment of $5000 information to be pick up is below,

Money Reference Number (MTCN): 237 404 0640
Sender First Name: Isaiah
Sender Last Name: Ike

Your payment is ready to pick up at any agent location but you can't do that without the transfer clearance fee of $230.00. Therefore, I will be waiting to hear from you with the clearance certificate payment of $230.00 today and you are to make use of the information below to send the fee.

RECEIVER: JOHN IDE.
COUNTRY: BENIN.
CITY: COTONOU
QUESTION: TODAY?
ANSWER: YES
AMOUNT: $230.00

Do get back to me with your current transfer details as listed: Phone number, Address, Country, Copy of your ID card or driven license.

Contact info: Dr Larry John
Email: j.larry00239@gmail.com
Tel: +229 99449193

Thanks and may God Bless you.

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