419 scam: "Mrs. Liudmyla Shestakova"<liudmylahestakova@mail.com> Bequest Notification Offer

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
- "i got your email address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mrslindasadamsadams@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Liudmyla Shestakova" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrslindasadamsadams@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 13:13:42 -0700
Subject: Bequest Notification Offer

Hi,

Greetings, I have a very important matter I want to discuss with you.

Please let this not sound strange to you because my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year.

I got your email address from your country's guestbook online.

I'm Mrs. Liudmyla Shestakova from Ukraine, born in England. I am legally married to Mr. John Wiley Lowe, a British citizen born and brought up in the United Kingdom, I lived in Switzerland with my husband for 32 years before we moved back to the U.K in 1985 after my husband's retirement in 1984. I am 78 years old by the grace of God, I am a God fearing woman, and I am suffering from long term (illness) cancer of the bone (leukemia) and throat Cancer. This illness has troubled me for a longtime. All indications from my doctor and medical analysis is that my condition is really deteriorating and getting worse; and it is quite obvious that I will not live more than three OR Four months, although it is God who decides.

This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very bad stage that there is no hope for me to be living again. During the 40 years period of my marriage life, we still could not produce any child, my late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited some part of his business and money in the bank. Today I have decided to donate and contribute to you, your Country and to the less privileged, charity homes, and orphanage homes and to those displaced by wars going on in the middle-east and around the world. Since the death of my husband I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my belongings and deposited the sum of USD 37,600,000 Million Dollars with Royal Bank Of Scotland United Kingdom.

Presently, I am in India and this money is still with Royal Bank Of Scotland United Kingdom, the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the funds for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf, before they get it confiscated.

Am always with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer problems. I have since lost my ability to talk.

It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization like charities and the poor or motherless babies home.

I Hope you are a God fearing person, also use this money to fund orphanages and widows.

If you are genuinely and can handle this with the fear of God, please refer back to me by providing me with the information below to my email address (mrslindasadamsadams@gmail.com)

Your full name:
Your Residential Address:
Your Official Occupation:
Your Mobile Number:
Your age:

As soon as I receive your response I will give you a letter of authorization to contact the Royal Bank Of Scotland.

Hoping to hear from you
Mrs. Liudmyla Shestakova

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