Felicite Samuel- [email protected]

Good day y'all, I need some help. I receive this strange email and i did not reply because i think it is a scam but not sure.
It reads:

Hello dear; how are you doing, my name is Miss Felicite Samuel. It's a wonderful compliment to write to you at this moment. Honestly I'm interested to make a good relationship with you after I read your profile today and I am so much interested on you. I want to build a trust and honest good relationship with you. However, I shall send to you my picture and tell you more details about myself on my next mail. I want you to write to me through my email address ([email protected]) I shall be waiting
for your mail Thanks Yours Felicite.

and the topic of the email was: HELLO from Samuel
I am clueless to who this person is and wondering if i should reply. IS it a scam

if it were really an email from some online dating service, it would have been sent to you in your private message box on that site. Unless you somehow gave out your email address in your profile ( which can be done).

It very much sounds like generic lines for romance scammers to start with, but there is no way it can be called an absolute scam with such little information.

I've been married for 8 years, have zero ads on the internet for any dating sites, and I get scam letters like that on a regular basis. I just delete them. Even when I did have ads on dating sites, I knew a letter like that was a scam because there was no way in the world the dating site would have given out my email address to any stranger that asked for it.

It's a standard introductory email from a Senegalese refugee scammer.

You can see same message, different name here: http://www.youreittoday.com/scammer.php ... rid=567159