The "dying widow" has a website active on the domain name almrabella.com.
From the fake website:
Arabella Leegte Melcher is a Philantropist, she is one of the richest woman in the world.
Arabella is the CEO of ALM Arabella
Arabella is one of the the richest woman in the world, see more on this profile for details of her wealth.
She and her daughter and grandsons owns 33% of Alm Arabella
Her father, Eugene Melcher, founded the Cosmetics empire in 1907.
She has a daughter by name Franchoise Bettencourt Meyers and two grandsons.
Arabella Leegte Melcher currently have an ailment (Dementia). She's 69.
Arabella Leegte Melcher is a citizen of Netherlands.
In 2016 a court found several of the heiress' former confidants guilty of swindling her. Arabella, who is suffering from dementia, was replaced on ALM Arabella by a grandson in 2012.
ALM Groep is an international industrial and manufacturing company established in 1953. From its head office in Eindhoven, Netherlands, VDL supervises its subsidiaries, which have a high level of autonomy and responsibility for results.
Contact details:
A snapshot of the page as it appeared on 5 Jan 2022 shows:
Arabella Leegte Melcher was a Philantropist who died in September 2017 at the age of 69. Until the time of her death,she was the richest woman in the world.
Franchoise Bettencourt Meyers is the Chairwoman of L'Oréal. Her mother was Liliane Bettencourt, who died in September 2017.
Before anyone starts wondering how a ghost can send emails and promise donations, let's clarify that Arabella Leegte Melcher never existed. "She" is a made-up identity created by scammers, and "she" is dead for the cases the scammers impersonate Franchoise Bettencourt Meyers, or "she" is alive for the cases the scammers pretend to be "Arabella Melcher".
"Her" picture is stolen from a stock photo collection.
In both cases, the scam will move ahead with the fraudsters using a second made-up persona pretending to be the daughter of the "dying widow", following the same path as the scams impersonating Liliane Bettencourt reported here:
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Entry in the aa419 database of fraudulent websites:
https://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=154802 From the domain name registration:
Domain name: almrabella.com
Updated Date: 2021-12-09
Creation Date: 2021-12-06 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2022-12-06
Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC
Reseller: NAMECHEAP INC
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Redacted for Privacy
Registrant Organization: Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf
This is what the fake website looks like: