What is the Summon To Court For Pedophilia email scam

Summon To Court For Pedophilia refers to a fake email that claims the recipient has been accused of sexual assault, pedophilia, and possessing child pornography videos. Senders claim to be law enforcement agencies and ask that recipients respond with their justifications. The email is part of an email scam campaign that likely intends to trick users into paying thousands of dollars. While the email may seem alarming, it’s nothing more than a scam. The email can be ignored.

 

 

This Summon To Court For Pedophilia email is made to seem like it’s sent by a law enforcement agency. There are several versions of this scam, and they target users in specific countries. We have seen emails in French, Dutch, English, and Lithuania, meaning users from those countries are targeted. The emails are somewhat personalized to each country and contain local law enforcement logos and native names.

The English version of this email claims that the recipient has been accused of possessing cyber and child pornography and engaging in pedophilia, exhibitionism, sexual assault, and trafficking. The sender claims to be Jean Philippe Lecouffe, the executive director of Europol, Europe’s joint law enforcement agency. It’s worth mentioning that while the email is a scam, Jean Philippe Lecouffe is a real person and he is currently the executive director of Europol. He, of course, has nothing to do with this email.

The email requests that the recipient replies to the email with their “justifications”. If they fail to do that within 72 hours, an arrest warrant will be issued, they will be put on Europe’s Sexual Offender registry, and their photo and information will be sent to all of Europe’s law enforcement agencies, as well as mass media.

For users not familiar with email scams, this email may seem very alarming. They may try to engage simply to request more information about what’s going on, which would allow cybercriminals to continue their scam. It’s difficult to say what exactly is the main goal of this scam but it will likely lead to scammers asking users to pay a couple of hundred or even several thousand dollars. Scammers may also be trying to phish users’ personal information.

Scam emails made to appear like they’re sent by law enforcement agencies have been going around for many years. They’re less common nowadays but can still be encountered. They’re very obvious in most cases. Besides the poor grammar and spelling, the Summon To Court For Pedophilia email doesn’t actually make much sense. Scammers are just hoping users panic because of the sudden accusations and do not read the email carefully. Logically, if someone was suspected of having committed such serious crimes, they would not be informed about it via email and asked to justify their actions. They would be immediately arrested. They would certainly not be asked to pay a fine for crimes people get sentenced to life in prison. As far as email scams go, it’s not a very clever one.

For users wondering why they received this email, it’s likely because their email addresses have been leaked and sold on a hacker forum. Unfortunately, email addresses get leaked all the time. Leaked information is sold on hacker forums for other cybercriminals to buy. Users can check on haveibeenpwned whether their email addresses have been leaked.

The English version of the Summon To Court For Pedophilia email scam is below:

EUROPOL

OFFICE EUROPEEN DE POLICE (EUROPOL)
Creation 1er juillet 1999
Siege Eisenhoweriaan 73
Drapeau : Pays-Bas La Haye
Coordonnees 52 ” 05″ 34″ N, 4″ 16′ 53″ E
Employes 1065 (decembre 2016)1
Budget annuel € 116.4 millions (2017)2
Ministre responsable Drapeau de la France Jean-Philippe Lecouffe (Directeur Executif Adjoint)
Eisenhoweriaan 73 Drapeau : Pays-Bas La Haye

CYBERCRIME COMPLAINT

I am Mr. Jean-Philippe LECOUFFE, Executive Director of the European Police Office (Europol) and Director of the European Cybercrime Centre. I am contacting you due to a computer seizure of CYBER INFILTRATION, which is authorized in a particular in the fields of:

– CYBERPORNOGRAPHY
– CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
– PEDOPHILIA
– EXHIBITIONISM
– INDECENT ASSAULT, SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL ABUSE AND TRAFFICKING
– CONSULTATION OF PORNOGRAPHIC SITES INVOLVING MINORS

We have intercepted communications and collected material elements incriminating you.

A formal indictment file for the above-mentioned serious facts has been established.

This is a summons to which you must respond immediately by e-mail:

jean-philippe.lecoufe@etik.com

You are requested to contact us with your justifications in writing so that it can be examined and verified in order to assess the sanctions, within 72 hours of receiving this message.

After this period, we will be obliged to obtain an arrest warrant from the Public Prosecutor with immediate effect and to report you to all European law enforcement agencies. You will also be registered in the European Registered of Sexual Offenders, and your details and photography will be sent to associations and child protection organizations as well as to the mass media (press, radio, television …) for wide dissemination as provided for by the legislation in force.

You are now warned.
Sincerely.
Jean-Philippe LECOUFFE
MR JEAN-PHILIPPE LECOUFFE DIRECTEUR ADJOINT DEUROPOL OFFICE. CHEF DE BRIGADE DE PROTECTION DES MINEURS