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Telephone number +2296600653 is a number from Benin. The area code is 66. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider BĂ©ninCell.

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: BĂ©ninCell
Validity: Benin phone numbers should be 11 digits in length including the country code.The number you searched for is 10 digits long.

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

17th August 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 17th August 2018, telephone number +2296600653 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Tony Ebube using email address wuransfer@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.
THE WESTERN UNION OFFICE COTONOU REPUBLI OF BENIN. OFFICE COTONOU
REPUBLIOF BENIN.
FROM OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.COTONOU
BENINREPUBLIC/ADDRESS A35 JUMP EXPRESS ROAD COTONOU.
WEBSITE .www..westernunion.com http:/ /site.www.westernunion .com/
NOTIFICATION*NOTIFICATION*NOTIFICATION !!!
Hello.
This office wishes you and your family a happy and prosperous new year.
This office did not hear or receive the needed fee $40.00 as we have
told you earlier,why?
Hope you still remember that,this your fund of (USA)$2,500,000.00 is long
over due in our vault and by our rules and regulations, we are not
authorised to holds or keeps any fund here in our care for a long
period of time,Order from above.

Now,this office is offering a New Year BONUS to help our customers to
receive their fund/money left in this office before entering to our
new project for the new year 2018.

We gives you two(2)days to send this needed fee.
Note;once we enter to our new project for the new year 2014,your
transaction will be canceil and your fund will be transfer to government
account.Order from above.

This is your another chance.Send this fee now and start receiving your
funds same day without any delay.

This needed fee is for re-newing and re-confirming of your payment file
here for your immediate payment of 2,500,000.00 as we have explained to you
earlier.

Even in bank sector,any dormant account must be re-activated before using
it.Hope you understand this matter very well now.

This office gives you full guarantee/assurance that,once this needed fee
is receive here now,your payment file will be re-newed and re-confirmed
and your payment will start to be sending to you same day without any
delay.

Even the informations,VALID(MTCN) of your first payment of $4500.00is
here with me now,waiting to be send to you immediatly affter your payment
file is re-newed and re-confirmed here.

This is your payment informations of your first payment of
$4500.00 with VALID MTCN,But is picked up now by this office
because since your picking up informations is in internet many
people is going for the fund which is not their fund.

This office will resend to you another new picking up informations with
valid MTCN which you will be use in picking up your fund immediatly affter
you have send this needed $40.00 now ok.

Track this fund with western union website now; (
https:/ /www.westernunion .com/global-service/track-transfer)
and confirmed its picked up by this office.

Snder S Name:Holly Waldon
ADDRESS: 733 jericho road cotonou
COUNTRY : Benin Republic
TEXT QUESTION: Which city?
ANSWER: cotonou
AMOUNT: $4500.00
MTCN FOR PICK UP: 683-103-20-67
Kindly send this needed fee as quickly as western union office OR money
gram office open in your country today.
Do act fast.
Call Mr Tony Ebube with his direct phone number----(+22964764031)
Conditions of sending your fund to you.

(1)Your fund will be sending to you $4500.00 three(3)times per week till
you receive the total fund of 2,500,000.00usd
(2)Only you have the access in picking up your fund.

(3)You will be picking your fund from any western union office of your
choice.
(4)Once you pick up your first fund another new picking up informations
will send to you till you receive the total fund.
(5)registered your ATM MASTER CARD of $2,5m is $40
Kindly send this needed fee as quickly as possible today to enable us to
start sending your fund without any delay.

Get back to me now.
STOP DELAYING THIS FUND HERE.
NOTE;ONCE THIS NEEDED FEE IS RECEIVED HERE AS I TOLD YOU,THIS FUND WILL BE
RELEASED FOR YOU TO START PICKING IT UP FROM ANY WESTERN UNION OFFICE NEAR
YOU SAME DAY, $4500.00 THREE(3)TIMES PER WEEK TILL YOU RECEIVE THE TOTAL
FUND OF $2,500,000.00
Payment only by Cash.
My dear, bear in mind that he who looks into the future with the eyes of
fear,will see nothing but failure. What you hear determines how you
think, how youthink determines how you behave and how you behave
determines what you
become.
Our future is too good to be ignored.
CONTACT OUR PAYMENT OFFICE,
FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER--- Mr Tony Ebube.
E-mail; wuransfer@gmail.com
STOP DELAYING THIS FUND HERE.
Send this needed fee $40.00 now through WESTERN UNION OFFICE (OR) MONEY
GRAM OFFICE with the informations below:
RECEIVER NAME:...................... Chinaka
COUNTRY:.....................................Republic of Benin.
CITY :............... .............................Cotonou.
TEXT QUESTION:......................FOR WHAT
TEXT ANSWER:.......................FUND
AMOUNT:...............................$40. 00 USDa
MTCN NUMBER........................
SENDER'S NAME........................
WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR UEGENT RESPONSE TO ENABLE THIS OFFICE KNOW YOUR
ARRANGEMENT FOR THE PAYMENT. YOU CALL US FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CELL
PHONE NUMBER: (+22964764031).
NOTE;DO RE-CONFIRMED YOUR FULL CONTACT INFORMATIONS WITH YOUR DIRECT PHON
NUMBER.
BEST REGARD,
Contact person:Mr Tony Ebube.
FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER
WESTERN UNION OFFICE BENIN REPUBLIC.
EMAIL; wuransfer@gmail.com
PHONE;(+229-6600653)
Code of Conduct(505)

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