About Anti-Terrorism certificates, Drug-Free certificates:

No such certificates actually exist.
No such certificates are required for International wire transfers.
Any email that mentions these non-existent certificates and asks you to pay for them is a scam!

These fake certificates are a requested by the criminals in 419 scams to take more money from victims, often after other payments have already been made. The certificates are supposedly issued by the International Court of Justice in Den Haag or by the local government in the country where the "lottery" or "bank" used in the scam claims to be located. Usually the criminals charge thousands of dollars for these fake certificates. Payment has to be sent by Western Union or MoneyGram, which means the recipient of the payment can't be traced.

The following emails are part of an Advance Fee Scam. See our "419" fraud FAQ for more information on such scams.

If you have any suspect email that you want to report or have checked, you can copy and paste the message text into our "Scam-O-Matic" webform for an instant reply.

If you get suspect emails, you can also forward them to our scam-reporting e-mail address
Though you won't normally get a reply we do use your reports to shut down scammers and to warn others.