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Telephone number +2348165601629 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:

8th April 2025 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 8th April 2025, telephone number +2348165601629 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Dr. Thomas E. Zimmerman using email address mariamclaughhin@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.
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION PROJECT, IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK AND FBI

Attention: Beneficiary,

You may not Understand why this mail came to you. A joint meeting was held by the United Nation top officials with the Senate Committee on Foreign Debts Reconciliation and Implementation Panel on Beneficiary/Inheritance fund under category concerning all the scam victims worldwide, which was addressed and headed by the two bodies. It became imperative to contact you on the subject matter.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed or extorted money from due to advance fee fraud, the UNITED NATIONS, the World Bank and Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) have agreed to compensate each and everyone of you, with the sum of US$500,000.00. This includes every foreign contractors/Next of kin and people that have had an unfinished transaction or International businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities.

In the meeting it was concluded that all potential Compensation beneficiary fund should be credited into an ATM DEBIT CARD,Or Telegraphic transfer via our corresponding Bank in USA, which they can use to withdraw the fund in any AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE (ATM) nearest to them in their Country respectively, with a sole charge of US$95 dollars for the passing of the Bill by the United Nations Board of trustees and by the United States Congress and also for the delivery of their ATM card to their house address respectively.

It become paramount to contact you on the subject matter for you to be careful from the kind of email you attend to now and onward, because if you misses this opportunity,i will not attend to your issues again. Do what's right. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Your name is in our list and that is why we are contacting you, it has been agreed upon and have been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and The World Bank Trustees.

You have to contact (NPF) he is our payment agent, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in Abuja, Nigeria, contact him immediately for your compensation payment through Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) Card or telegraphic transfer via bank to bank.

Send him your correct mailing addresses where you want him to send the DEBIT CARD to you, alternatively suggest to him that you want the fund via Bank to Bank transfer as stated herein,and your telephone number and tell him your file Reference Number below (RE-1077_V).

Contact Person: Dr. Thomas E.Zimmerman
Email: mariamclaughhin@gmail.com
Phone: (+234-81-65601629).

Hoping to hear from you as soon as you received your compensation payment. You are free to email me, if you have any questions.

Regards,
Sec.(Secretary General, United Nations)
CC:Mr. Kash Patel( FBI, Director)

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010234-816-560-1629 010234-81-65601629 (+234) 8165-601629