419 scam: "Mrs. Lydie DESOUZA" <sean@achievar.com> Good day

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Lydie DESOUZA" <sean@achievar.com>
Reply-To: lydie_desouza@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 01:22:29 GMT
Subject: Good day

How are you? Hope everything goes well.

It's my pleasure to brief you with this. I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow in my heart, I want to tell you this because I don't have any other option than to tell you as I was touched to open up to you, I married to Mr. fredy Dessouza who was exporter of Gold from Burkina Faso mining to worldwide for ten years before he died in the year 2010. We were married for 16 years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only six days. Since his death I decided not to remarry, when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$ 4.5M (Four Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars) in bank and presently this money is still in bank, He made this money available for exportation of Gold from Burkina Faso mining to worldwide.

Recently, I suffer from throat cancer terminally ill. My Doctor told me that I am condemned to certain death due to cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to hand you over this money to take care of the less-privileged people, you will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein.

As soon a s I receive your reply I will instruct the Bank Manager to immediately transfer you the fund.

Yours sincerely.

Mrs Lydie Desouza

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