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Info on the number +22994571971

Telephone number +22994571971 is a number from Benin. The area code is 94. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Telecel (MOOV Bénin).

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: Telecel (MOOV Bénin)
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:

9th March 2021 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 9th March 2021, telephone number +22994571971 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Wakil Adjibi working for Vital Finance Bank using email address vf-bank@aol.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.
Mon, 8 March, 2021
Attention Fund Beneficiary,
How are you doing today together with your family? Hope you all are fine
and as well safe from this Covid-19 pandemic bedeviling the whole
universe? I am writing to inform you that we have finally agreed to send
your fund to you through our Online banking system where you can just go
into our website, open for yourself an online account and then start
transferring the whole fund direct to your personal bank account by
yourself without any stress. To do that, all you need is to simply click
on our website or just copy it to any browser windows in your laptop/PC
computer, look at the left top side of the site and you will see where to
click to register or login. Please click Register and then fill all the
necessary account opening forms and click SUBMIT after you would have
finished filling the form properly to submit the form to the account
officers.
Note: You must make sure you write your email address correctly because
your account info and login details will be sent to you via your email
after we have verified and confirmed that the information is genuine.

Please be informed that our website might not be open for you there in
your system due to some anti-virus security software in your Laptop or
computer, but don't worry if it says 'Your connection is not private' and
doesn't open. Just look down the page and click "Advanced '' Then
look down again and click "Proceed to vitalfinancebk (unsafe) to adapt our
website into your system so that it can open for you and start operating
perfectly.
Here is Vital Finance Bank
website: vitalfinancebk-001-site1.dtempurl.com Follow the instruction
above to open the account by yourself. I will be waiting for your reply as
soon as you have done as instructed. PLEASE INCASE YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR
WANT TO SPEAK TO US, JUST CALL: +229-945-719-71 AND WE'LL ATTEND TO YOU.
Thanks for banking with us and we promise to give you our best service.

B. regards,

Monsieur Wakil ADJIBI

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

*NOTE* Phone numbers can be regularly re-assigned if the person using them stops paying the bill. This number was included in scammer emails or websites on the dates shown above, but may have since been reassigned. If you have evidence of more recent scam activity using the number, please use the contact page to let us know or post the details in our forum. You can also add brief comments in the comments section below.

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