A Nigerian internet fraudster popularly known as Yahoo Boy, Hammed Akinola has bagged 180 months (15 years) imprisonment for a $10million fraud. His sentence was ordered by a Federal High Court in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America (USA) . Akinola’s accomplice American accomplice was not spared also, U.S. District Judge David Hittner […]
Experts at Kaspersky Lab’s annual Cyber Security Weekend discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments across the globe and the many cyber risks that surround such technology. Especially the recent SIM swap fraud wave, which have become very common in Africa and the wider region. A SIM swap fraud happens when someone convinces your
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New voluntary code comes into play to protect scams in which victim pays fraudster directly All the major UK banks and Nationwide building society have signed up to the new code of conduct. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Bank customers who fall victim to frauds after 28 May will have a greater chance of being refunded.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged the general public to be vigilant in order not to fall victim to new tricks deployed by car thieves to dispossess unsuspecting Nigerians of their vehicles. The alert was borne out of the shocking discoveries made during investigations into the allegations of crime leveled against Babatunde
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Grace Chukwu, 38, and Queen Chukwuka, 32, guilty of having criminal property They were arrested and tried with eight other members of fraudster gang Group used Internet scams sent to people’s emails to steal bank details They were found with thousands in account and spent money on designer shoes By Lara Keay For Mailonline Published: 16:06
Crying out from near the top of the FBI’s cybercrime report last week was a heartbreaking statistic. The second-costliest category of crime, behind only compromised business email, was confidence and romance fraud, with a 2018 cost of $363 million. What does romance fraud look like? The FBI cases read like the ultimate cautionary tales about
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One of Lee Rigby’s killers is reportedly making a bid to serve the rest of his sentence in a Nigerian jail with a VIP wing. Michael Adebowale, 37, is currently behind bars in HMP Wakefield, but he is believed to be seeking a prisoner-swap deal. Adebowale, who is serving a 45 year jail term for
Nine Nigerians have been arrested in the United States over allegations of fraud. Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Spero, Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa, Florida, Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced this in a statement. The suspects
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Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have decried the increasing rate of ‘one chance’ criminal activities in the city centres. One chance is a type of robbery in which the victim is robbed while on board a moving commercial vehicle; mostly unpainted taxis. Some of the victims said that those who enter commercial vehicles
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Mark Goodram (left) and Jon-Ross Watson are reportedly on a bender celebrating their lottery win, though Camelot hasn’t yet paid out (Pictures: Facebook) Lottery bosses are reportedly investigating a £4 million scratchcard won by two convicted crooks. Mark Goodram, 36, and Jon-Ross Watson, 31, appeared to have embarked on a four-day celebration to celebrate the multi-million
