June O. Hudson - [email protected]

I have masked some of the details in this scam email due to the fact that it was personally addressed to its intended victim, who kindly forwarded this information to us. This is a fairly standard NOK or inheritance scam and with a little time spent researching some of the vital information such as the "reply-to" email address, the contact number and a portion of the text it can very easily be verified as 100% scam material.

A search on the email address [email protected] reveals at least one other occasion where it has been used before in exactly the same manner as it is being used here.
A search on the contact number "+229-96299137" also reveals another German related link.
A search on the small block of text contained within the scam script, "Director of petroliers (TOTAL BENIN) in Benin Republic West Africa Here" reveals too many google search results to list individually. All scam related.

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from [41.222.192.87]
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009
From: "AVOCAT JUNE O. HUDSON" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Private Message To: ***** *****
To: *****@*****.net



BARRISTER HUDSON JUNE AND CHAMBERS
03 BP 2082,Cotonou,
Republique du Benin
Telephone:+229-96299137
Email: [email protected]

ATTN: *****,

I am Avocat June O. Hudson, the attorney at law to Late ***** *****, a national of your country, who used to work as the Director of petroliers (TOTAL BENIN) in Benin Republic West Africa Here in after shall be Referred to as my client.

On the 29th of April 2003, my Client, His wife and their three Children were involved in a car accident near Lome-Ghana express-road. All occupants of the vehicle Unfortunately lost their lives.Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but all efforts was just in vain.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track His last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his Family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in Repatriating the money left behind by my Client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Banque Regionale de Solidarite ( Solidarity Regional Bank Benin). These huge deposits were lodged particularly, with the "BRS" where the Deceased had an account valued at about $10.5 million dollars (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in Locating the relatives for over Six years. Now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have The same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $10.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can Share the money 50% to me and 50% to you.

I will procure all Necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, but you must also agree not to disclose or pass any information related to this business to any body for security reason and to avoid eye brow , And the way we are going to achieve this is I will need the following information from you.


Your Full Name and Address,
Your Age, Occupation and Position,
Your Telephone, Mobile and Fax Number for Communication Purpose. You can call me at Private (+229) 96299137
Private E-mail [email protected]

Best Regards
Barrister June O. Hudson

I have been in touch with this person and I have to say I have been having quite some fun. It is unbelievable what they have been trying on. I've collected quite a bit of correspondence that may well be useful if there was a chance to prosecute them. E.g they sent me death certificate with a russian stamp in it claiming this is my relative who died in Africa. Hilarious! Latest news is I'm supposed to go to Brussels to organize a bank transaction!

Hi michal and welcome. I'm glad to hear that you're aware of the scam. If you want to mess with the scammers, please make sure you're doing so safely. (Don't use your real information). If you have been writing to him from your real email account that ties to your details, you should stop contact. What you're doing is called Scambaiting and is the focus of our sister site, http://www419Eater.com. Please drop in there and you'll find more information than you can read in months and tons of help and tools for baiting. There's also a forum full of surplus scam emails and unfortunately, never a shortage of scammers to bait. Do continue to post your scam emails here as it helps potential victims be alerted to the scam.

I, too, just received the following spam:

"
TO: ***** ********
From:
Hudson June O <[email protected]>
Add to Contacts
To: *******@yahoo.com
BARRISTER HUDSON JUNE AND CHAMBERS
03 BP 2082,Cotonou,
Republique du Benin
Telephone:+229-9837 0423
Email: [email protected]

ATTN: ***** ********

I am Avocat June .O. Hudson, the attorney at law to Late Mr Michael ********, a national of your country, who used to work as the Director of Produits petroliers (TOTAL BENIN) in Benin Republic West Africa Here in after shall be Referred to as my client.
On the 29st of April 2003, my Client, His wife and their three Children were involved in a car accident near Lome-Gahan express-road. All occupants of the vehicle Unfortunately lost their lives.Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but all efforts was just in vain.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track His last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his Family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in Repatriating the money left behind by my Client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Banque Regionale de Solidarite ( Solidarity Regional Bank Benin). These huge deposits were lodged particularly, with the "BRS" where the Deceased had an account valued at about $10.5 million dollars (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).
The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in Locating the relatives for over Six years. Now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have The same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $10.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can Share the money 50% to me and 50% to you.

I will procure all Necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, but you must also agree not to disclose or pass any information related to this business to any body for security reason and to avoid eye brow , And the way we are going to achieve this is I will need the following information from you.

Your Full Name and Address,
Your Age, Occupation and Position,
Your Telephone, Mobile and Fax Number for Communication Purpose.
You can call me at Privet(+229) 9837 0423
Privet-mail [email protected]

Best Regards
Barrister June .O. Hudson

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This irritates me on multiple levels due to the fact they are using my last name & I believe I do have a relative by the first name they used, but he is, as far as I am aware, alive and well, & is not from the USA. HaHa!
It especially bothers me on another level because I am trying to legitimately contact relatives of my same name for genealogical purposes & I fear those relatives I am attempting to contact may "trash" my email based upon all of the scams out there.

So, "Scamwarners," Thank your for the info!

Hi dontscame. Thank you for posting this new information Just as you have been able to find us as a result of your search, the new info provided may help others to avoid being scammed. As it seems that the scammers may have some of you personal information it would be wise to be very suspicious about all unsolicited messages, addressing you by name from strangers making promises about large sums of money.