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Telephone number +22962962416 is a number from Benin. The number is designated as being used for Mobile (Assumed) telephones.

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Here is some general information about the number.

Country Code: 229
Country Name: Benin
Type: Mobile (Assumed)
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:

10th January 2019 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 10th January 2019, telephone number +22962962416 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Chris Benton using email address bentonchris1001@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.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION
NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
26 Federal Plaza
9th Floor, Suite 9-110
New York, NY 10278

You are welcome to the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hereby write to inform you that we stopped a courier personal by the name Mrs. Annie Bradshaw at (John Kennedy International Airport) here in New York with a consignment box filled with cash valued at US$2,500,000:00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).In the course of our investigation on the courier personal she said that she was sent by a mr.Chris Benton Imf Managing Director, to come deliver the consignment box to you not knowing that the content of the box is cash in U.S Dollar bills.

This courier lady is under our custody here at JFK airport N.Y, and we cannot release her until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of money managed to be yours. In this regards you are prove to us that the money you are about to receive is legal by sending us the Ownership Clearance Certificate showing that the money is not illegal. The United States Patriot Act Bill already signed into law stipulates that the beneficiary of any money or monetary instrument above $1Million must provide an Ownership Clearance Certificate issued by the parliament of the country the money originated from; in this case Benin Cotonou and must be signed by head of the Benin Senate.

You are advised to forward immediately the Ownership Clearance Certificate if you have it with you, but if you do not have it, we urge you to contact back the sender of Annie Bradshaw to help you secure the Award Ownership Certificate if at all you do not have it. Below is the contact information of the person that sent Mrs.Annie Bradshaw as provided by her; Name: Chris Benton Email:(bentonchris1001@gmail.com) contact phone:+229-6296-2416

Furthermore, we are giving you only but 3 working business days to forward the requested Ownership Clearance Certificate. Please note that we shall get back to you after the 3 working business days, and if you don't come up with the certificate we shall confiscate the funds into the government account then charge you for money laundering and smuggling of currencies as stipulated in the United States Patriot Act bill on money laundering related activities already signed into law (P.L.107-56) and the United Nations Chatter on money laundering, but if you forward the Ownership Clearance Certificate then we will release courier lady to come deliver to you your consignment box also gives you every back up on the money.

Thanks for your understanding and co-operation.

Yours Truly,

Special Agent Dr.Jerry Mansur
Call or Text me at:201-249-6960
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION
NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE.

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