Anorak received an urgent email from the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde: Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA Dear Mr. Sir, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I am Dr. […]
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Last year, Google launched its public free Wi-Fi initiative in Nigeria, in a bid to improve access to internet connectivity in the country. Google Station, as it is called, first launched in Lagos and later in Abuja. But the initiative, which is expected to spread to three more cities by the end of 2019, might already
The accused, Tosin Iyanu Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Justice P. I. Ajoko of the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 sentenced one Ogundiran Tosin Iyanu to four months imprisonment for fraud. Ogundiran was found guilty of one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
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FBI warns of SIM-swapping outbreak Holding a substantial amount of crypto-currency? You may want to take a close look at your multi-factor authentication settings on your online accounts, particularly your email, and protections on your cellphone plan. The FBI is warning of what it says is an uptick in SIM-swapping fraudincidents. Criminals call a target’s phone carrier’s customer
An Uber driver has admitted kidnapping and wire fraud charges after he drove a sleeping passenger at least 60 miles from her destination in order to, seemingly, increase his fare. Harbir Parmar, 25, of Long Beach, New York, pleaded guilty on Monday in a US district court to the pair of charges. According to testimony [PDF] by
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)As denials go, it was extraordinary and more than a little surreal. The sitting president of Africa’s largest democracy was forced to refute repeated claims that he had died and a clone was now running his office. “This is the real me,” said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissing the allegation as “ignorant rumors”
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Early December 2018, a lady got murdered at Alaka estate, Surulere, by the driver who had copied their keys & came to burgle the house when he knew her husband & herself had gone out for a wedding. Unfortunately, she forgot the envelope she wanted to give the bride’s mother and they had to turn
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The suspected cyber criminals who are between 19 and 37 years of age include: twenty-three students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, out of which nine were ladies who allegedly claimed to be girlfriends and or neighbours of some of the suspects; one from the National Open University of Nigeria and twelve others are non-students. The Commission got wind
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The backgrounds of 3,000 foreign doctors are being urgently checked after a conwoman with no qualifications was allowed to work as an NHS psychiatrist for 22 years. Zholia Alemi, 56, claimed to have a degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand when she came to work in the UK in 1992. In reality, the convicted fraudster had flunked
On the 7th November 2018, Lagos State Security Trust Fund in collaboration with GF Forensics Consultants Limited hosted a course for members of the Rapid Response squad titled ‘Telecommunications Training as a tool for Smart Policing in Lagos State. The course combines telecoms fraud investigations with digital forensics and explains to the participants the nature
