The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will recover over £500,000 for the victims of a worldwide email fraud, after freezing money bound for a sanctioned Lebanese bank and securing High Court approval to use the unique case to trial a new approach to victim reparation.
The money was stolen from victims through a scam orchestrated by Abdallah Ali Jammal in 2002, by which unsolicited emails appeared in people’s inboxes, falsely claiming to need their he...