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Tender Swindling

Do you know what the new tool for online crooks is?

I met Maria George on the web. In fact, it's her who emailed me and told to me that she read my profile on a social web site. She wanted to become my friend and needed to know more about me. Of course, I try to verify if it was true and it was. She was a young refugee from Darfour, who supposed to live now in a camp in Senegal. She told me how her parents killed during the war and Red Cross took care of her and brought her to that camp, where she lived in bad conditions. She starts very quickly a love affair with me. I warned her about that kind of story but it was, as she didn't listen to me. Then I thought that she needed somebody to love because she felt alone for many years but there was a nasty surprise awaiting me. She also told me a reverend minister called Steven Adams, was the only friend she had and he was like a father.

She told me about the bank account her deceased father had in a great Bank in London: The Standard Chartered Bank and said that she was his next of kin. Gradually, she told me that she was afraid and needed some help. She wanted that I transfer funds (5, 3 millions of dollars) from her father's bank account to mine. She didn't want that people around her knows that she had that money. Our plan was once the money in my account; I went to Senegal and got her out of that horrible camp. She gave me all data I needed it means that I had the phone and fax numbers of the bank as well as the email of the agent who supposed to be in charge of transfer, Paul Leeds. She sent to me too the number code of her account.

Then I emailed the bank because moreover she told me that she already notified them about me. Two days later, I get the reply of the bank in my email. They confirm that she notified them about me as her legal representative but they needed some documents to legalize the deal. These documents could be only getting in Senegal (an affidavit, the certificate of death and the last statement account of her father and many other documents). Maria told me that she had some documents but we needed a lawyer for the others.

She told me that she had the email of a lawyer called Dr Duke Arshman who work for Sage Law Firm in Senegal, and wanted that I contacted him myself. I did it. But to my big amazement he accept to help us the same day. In addition, some hours later I received an email from the Sage Law Firm, where he told me that it needed some money to get documents as soon as possible. I found that things were going too quickly I decided to lead another inquiry about that story but more deeply. I already did one before but when I saw that the bank had a dependable web site, I gave up. However I found that it was an attempted to fraud when I found the same story on the web, only some names changed. It's really a genius way to rip many people off.

This story is true and all names found in this article are the same that contacted me in my Email. Then when a young refugee from Darfour will contact you in the web think twice before to help her.

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