Barrister Edward Be, Dr Phillipe Komla Of Stanbic Finance Remittance
West Africa Scam Targets Low Income Single Mom On Internet With Inheritance

Barrister Edward Be contacted me with a message of "Let's talk in Messenger" approx 3 weeks ago, informing me of a possible inheritance since I obviously had the same last name of his "late client" Mr. William Malone in which he could not find another "next of kin". Edward Be claimed he was the "personal attorney" of late William Malone. I had gotten one of these kinds of messages before but deleted them immediately (knowing that perhaps it was a scam).

This time, I decided to see what happens when someone answers this type of email and proceeded to have several conversations via email with Edward Be, in which he assumed we had become good friends. I went along only to find out what happens in the end, knowing full well, I had NO intention of spending any of my own monies to do this "process".

Edward Be even gave me the correct answers to send to Stanbic Finance to "match up" this questionaire/answer to the "file jacket" that the late Mr. William Malone had supposedly left for them. Edward Be sent very good looking documents via email, including a certificate of deposit (10 million dollars) that Mr. Malone had, and a death certificate as well. Though I went along with this, in my own mind, there was no way I would accept "copies" of anything via email and believe this to be a legit.

Stanbic Finance had approved me (woopie... Geesh) and told me via email that I must chose a Law Firm within Stanbic Finance to represent me since I could not go there in person. Just to see the next step in the scam, I chose a firm called Lipo & Co Associates and they contacted me via email and told me I must pay for their services, including but not limited to a "stamp/duty retainer", among other fees, and how I must send them the money through western union. They had the balls to charge me for an inheritance! Haha. Right. $3,500.00 and then some for other fees... I don't think so.

Well, I print out every correspondance I had with these people and I am in the process of sending them to any or all legal authorities, including using my wonderful computer to warn people of this kind of scam. I will save a copy of the printed correspondance to remind myself that I may be a single mom on low income, but I can not be conned with money. I'm smarter than that. Thank heaven I have fire walls, anti-virus software and took other caution measures to prevent them from finding me and thank god I'm smart enough to do research on this type of thing.

It was actually kinda fun, leading them to believe I might be a "good" candidate for such a scam. Thanks to some websites I researched, I now know I'm not the only one. I feel for those who truly get scammed for thousands of dollars only to find out later, there is no inheritance and they lose their money while the perps disappear.

Company: Barrister Edward Be, Dr Phillipe Komla Of Stanbic Finance Remittance
Country: Togo
State: Other
City: Lome
Address: Royal House Chambers Solicitors & Advocates Block 2, Flat 5, Rue Du Boulevard, PB 491
Phone: 2289187121

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