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Info on the number +2348161337147

Telephone number +2348161337147 is a number from Nigeria. The area code is 816. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider MTN Nigeria.

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: 234
Country Name: Nigeria
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: MTN Nigeria
Validity: The number is the correct length for a Nigerian mobile phone number.

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

16th January 2019 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 16th January 2019, telephone number +2348161337147 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Billy Grant using email address billygrantz11@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.
ATTENTION ,

MY NAME IS MR.BILLY GRANT IT IS A GREAT SHOCK TO ME THIS MORNING WHEN I HEARD THAT YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR FUNDS.PLEASE WHAT IS GOING ON CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME ?BECAUSE BY NOW YOUR FUNDS SUPPOSED TO BE IN YOUR POSITION KINDLY GET BACK TO ME WITH YOUR DIRECT MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER.BECAUSE THIS MATTER SOUNDS SO FUNNY AND SURPRISED TO ME,CALL ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE VERY IMPORTANT. +2348161337147

THANKS,
MR.BILLY GRANT

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

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This number could also be written in the following formats

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