419 scam: Clement Orbed <ikemjose@gmail.com> Arrangement of next of kin.

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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)
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- dcorbed@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Clement Orbed <ikemjose@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bcorbed@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:43:59 -0700
Subject: Arrangement of next of kin.

Attn : My Dear

I am Mr. Clement Orbed an account operator to late (Mr.Micheal
A.Herman) 52yrs old, a nationality of your country who unfortunately
died on a car accident dated 7th August 2018 along Edinburgh Park.
Since the death of (Mr.Micheal A.Herman), I as his account operator
have made several inquiries to locate his relations to come up for the
inheritance claim, without any success.

I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal
searching for my late client relations/next of kin so I decided to
contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by my late
client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank where my late client operates an account. The board of Directors
of the bank has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no
relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will
be confiscated and declared unserviceable.

Since The board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in
locating my client relatives for sometime now, it's on this note that
I seek your consent to present you as the relation/next of kin to my
late client that the proceed of this deposit can be released into your
account. The amount deposited $12.8 Million Dollars also I believed
with interest($12.800.000.00 USD) I will agree with you on 60% for you
while 40% for me.

I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.

Upon your response, furnish me with:
Your full name and address:
Your telephone and fax numbers:
Your occupation and age:

As soon as I receive all these information from you I will present it
to the bank Directors that I have locate the relation to my late
client since they asked that I should provide the next of kin for them
to release the inheritance fund.

Let me hear from you once you acknowledge my email:
My direct contact: dcorbed@gmail.com

I'm at your service,

Mr. Clement Orbed.

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