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Telephone number +22966522735 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 BéninCell.

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: BéninCell
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:

16th January 2018 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 16th January 2018, telephone number +22966522735 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Richard Maxwell using email address paymentoffice48@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.
Attn:beneficiary

$4.500.000.00 USD which was deposited to our bank by the IMF Managing Director to be delivered to you which he said to be your Overdue
Inheritance/Contract/compensation fund’s I want you to know that the delivery will be carried out once these bellow mentioned certificate is being obtained
from the office of the Attorney General of Federal High Court Benin Republic because without the certificate the diplomatic agent won't be granted safe
passage by the customs agent at the airport and those certificate are needed to be acquired for clarification and vindication of your fund that you are the
beneficiary and that it is legally own by you.

Below are the Certificates that need to be obtaining from the office of the Attorney General of Federal High Court of Benin Republic:

INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY PERMITS CERTIFICATE FEE: $40

IMF CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE FEE: $35

NOTE: THE REASON WHY YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND THE NEEDED FEE FOR THE OBTAINING OF THE CERTIFICATES IS THAT WE TRIED TO DEDUCT THE NEEDED FEE OUT FROM YOUR
FUND BUT THE MINISTER ADMINISTRATOR TRUST FUND OF BENIN REPUBLIC TOLD US THAT NO ONE HAS ACCESS OVER YOUR FUND AS IT HAVE BEEN SIGNED AND STAMPED THAT NO
MONEY SHOULD BE DEDUCTED UNTIL IT GETS TO YOU TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDING, CRIMINAL ACT AND FOR SECURITY REASONS.

You are hereby to be notified that the delivery fee and other formalities and necessary arrangement has been taken care of but you are only required to make
the payment of the fee of the above mentioned certificates so that once it is obtained and signed by the Attorney General of Federal High Court Benin
Republic then your diplomatic agent will be granted safe passage in any airport which he entered with those certificates and also to avoid you being suspicious of indulging in illegal act or drug dealing act and you should know that your Atm Card will be delivered to you by our courier partners(DHL).

Here is the information you are to use to make the payment through WESTERN UNION or MONEY GRAM OFFICE only.

RECEIVER NAME: HENRY UDOBA

COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC

CITY: COTONOU

TEXT QUESTION: URGENT

TEXT ANSWER: URGENT

AMOUNT: $75 USD

REF/MTCN_______

SENDER NAME_____

Immediately you make this payment and the needed certificate is been obtained and signed by the Attorney General of Federal High Court Benin Republic then
you will be contacted by our courier partners (DHL) regarding the moving of the diplomatic agent with your Atm Card and I will also send you the copy of the
obtained certificates and where it is signed by the

Attorney General of Federal High Court of Benin Republic once it is been obtained. Once you make the payment get back to me with the payment details immediately.

Waiting for your urgent reply immediately.

SINCERELY;

Mr Richard Maxwell
FOREIGN PAYMENT MANAGER
UBA BANK BENIN REPUBLIC
TEL: +229-66522735

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This number could also be written in the following formats

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