BENIN ILLEGAL STAMPS
2018
Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for Benin Created in 2018
The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Benin. Please remember that the producers of these illegals are not only greedy,
they are crude and sometimes disgusting which is the nature of these people.
To verify what stamps are real and legitimate for Benin visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Benin section.
The Universal Postal Union WNS website
You can also get a very good reference of what was officially issued from the Colnect website.
The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin
Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. It is far from complete but will help you verify many as well.
The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin Illegal Stamps
I have also found the StampWorld Catalog an excellent resource.
The StampWorld Online Catalog for Benin
You can also use a respectable catalog like Scott or Stanley Gibbons. Do not listen to these dealers trying to convince you they are something
other than illegal stamps.
In 2004 when Benin produced circular 30 they did not know that there were more illegal stamps that were being circulated than what they listed.
This has occurred for many of the victim countries. To correct it I have researched them all using the major catalog listings and the WNS system as
reference to what was officially issued.
Here we go!
Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates and as color proof sets as well. Some exist on fake First Day Covers too.
Most times now (2019) the souvenir sheet sets and sheetlet sets are sold individually. Many times the stamps have been removed from the sheetlets
and souvenir sheets. All of these "tactics" are used to avoid detection by UPU circular descriptions and search terms.
Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "Cinderella's", "unauthorized" are deceiving you. They are illegal stamps produced by a stamp dealer
that is bent on ripping you off! Some sellers state "we offer them because they are on the market". Well how about you use a different dealer
because that seller is "on the market"? If the stamp societies, auction sites and all other venues kicked these sellers off of their sites
then they would have to comply or lose their ability to sell anything.
The following images are free for the use of all to use to alert the public to them. If anyone wants to make a public list of users on eBay, Delcampe
and elsewhere who are selling these issues....fine by me since the UPU, PWMO and others appear to have given up or have not been updated in years.
If you have purchased any of these stamps from a dealer or if that dealer offers them, you should avoid that dealer! You will
only be supporting illegal stamp makers who are only ripping you off.
2018
From 2012 forward Benin stopped filing their official stamp issues with the WNS system. The reasons why are unclear. Possibly because they did not
see the system helping to stop the proliferation of fake counterfeit illegal stamps being produced and sold in the name of Benin. Possibly for financial
reasons of which it is costly to to list each issue on the WNS system. For whatever reason(s) the WNS system cannot be used to find the newer official issues
for Benin.
The Colnect online catalog is your best bet now for online access to verify the official issues. We still have conflicts with some of those as many are being listed by
Michel and/or Yvert but not listed by Scott catalogs or Stanley Gibbons. There definitely needs to be some kind of unification of agreement between all the
major catalogs in regards to the official issues for Benin.
In 2018 according to the catalogs for Benin no official stamps were issued.
Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for Benin dating 2018. There may and probably are more.
All of these I found in searches on eBay and Delcampe and all are illegal stamps made by producers bent on ripping you off!
I present them in alphabetical order of titles as there is no logical order for illegal stamps.
In 2018 the production of illegal stamps continues on a massive scale. You can be sure that every "stamp" and "souvenir sheet" dating 2018
in the name of Benin is a
COUNTERFEIT ILLEGAL STAMP!
Our current main movers user names on eBay (2019) or attempting movers of these counterfeit illegal stamps are:
eren3049
marlen-stamps
europolstamps
globalphila
kir30kirill (account suspended November 2019)
Our current main movers user names on Delcampe (2019) or attempting movers of these counterfeit illegal stamps are:
w4stamps
spectre-stamps (account closed.....good!
philove (account closed....good!)
new_issues
senan
I note that some of the user names will change as they are the same people using different accounts. One of many deceptive "tactics" these people use.
We are beginning to reveal what I call "the network". This is a network of dealers worldwide who are directly connected with the producers
or are the producers themselves of illegal stamps. Because of the blatant selling of the most recent counterfeit illegal stamps by these sellers for years
now in my opinion they should be rejected by the stamp community as a whole in all regards. We should not buy anything from them nor even allow
them to remain on the online venues that give them worldwide access to collectors. In other words...let's shut them out of the market!
Our Russian counterfeit dealer/producer is now dominating the market for production of Benin counterfeit stamps. Who can stop them? Benin postal authorities can.....
The evidence and proof to go after these people is all over the internet.
2018 Apollo Soyuz Test Project in Souvenir Sheet of 8 Plus Label
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Apollo Soyuz Test Project in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Baseball in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
I note that at the time of image collection this dealer was only offering these two souvenir sheets. Normally there are six
souvenir sheets featuring the individual fake stamps on the two souvenir sheets. They most likely....exist.
BEWARE!
2018 Baseball in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Amazing Bridges in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Amazing Bridges in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Amazing Bridges in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Cars Jaguar in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
Again I note that at the time of image collection this dealer was only offering these two souvenir sheets. Normally there are six
souvenir sheets featuring the individual fake stamps on the two souvenir sheets. They most likely....exist.
BEWARE!
2018 Cars Jaguar in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Cars Jaguar (different) in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Cars Jaguar (different) in Souvenir Sheet of 2
CELEBRITIES
They went all out on this set folks!
2018 Celebrities Catherine the Great in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Winston Churchill in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Youri Gagarine in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Gengis Khan in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Adolph Hitler in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Serguei Korolev in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Vladimir Lenin in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Leonard de Vinci in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Mao Zedong in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Nicolas II in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Peter the Great in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Pope John Paul II in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Vladimir Putin in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Joseph Stalin in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Celebrities Gueorgui Zhukov in Souvenir Sheets of 5, 2, and 1
2018 Chinese Astrology in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Dangerous Insects in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Ernest Shackleton in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Ernest Shackleton in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Fregat and Soyuz Space in Souvenir Sheet of 3
Here we have the "no date" type again.
2018 Heroes of Independence in South America in Souvenir Sheets of 3
Here we have the "no date" type again.
2018 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Again with no date. The no date fakes being offered by spectre-stamps on Delcampe.
2018 Olympic Achievements in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Olympic Achievements in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Olympic Achievements in Souvenir Sheets of 1
One image was so small and bad I could not add to this image. There are the standard six fake souvenir sheets in this set.
2018 Paralympic Games in Souvenir Sheet of 8 Plus Label
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Paralympic Games in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Parrots in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Pendjari National Park Animals in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Pierre de Coubertin in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Pierre de Coubertin in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Pierre de Coubertin in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Quantum Mechanics in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Russian Painters Artists Art in Souvenir Sheets of 4
2018 Scouting Scoutism in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Soccer Stadiums in Souvenir Sheets of 4
2018 Space Events in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Star Wars in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
Again noting that at the time of image collection this dealer was only offering these two souvenir sheets. Normally there are six
souvenir sheets featuring the individual fake stamps on the two souvenir sheets. They most likely....exist.
BEWARE!
2018 Star Wars in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Tehran Conference in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Tehran Conference in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Tehran Conference in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 The Beatles in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
Again I note that at the time of image collection this dealer was only offering these two souvenir sheets. Normally there are six
souvenir sheets featuring the individual fake stamps on the two souvenir sheets. They most likely....exist.
BEWARE!
2018 The Beatles in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Trains High Speed in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Winter Olympics Beijing 2022 in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 Winter Olympics Beijing 2022 in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 Winter Olympics Beijing 2022 in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 World War I Leaders in Souvenir Sheets of 4
2018 World War II Aviation Fighter Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2018 World War II Aviation Fighter Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2018 World War II Aviation Fighter Planes in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2018 Year of the Pig in Souvenir Sheet of 4
2018 Year of the Pig in Souvenir Sheet of 1
So you can see that they are still hard at it with ripping off collectors with counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of Benin.
It continues. 2019 fake issues are now infesting the stamp market.
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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research
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