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ID checking start-up Onfido raises $50m from Softbank Investment

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British technology start-up Onfido has raised $50m (£38m) in new funding from investors including Japan’s Softbank Investment (SBI) as it targets growth in the US and South-East Asia. The company, founded by three Oxford University graduates in 2012, has now raised more than $100m (£76m) for its software, which usesartificial intelligence to check documents and prevent […]

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Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I’m an American citizen

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Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 2 Apr 2019 at 23:25 Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America’s border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone. Gal,

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Fake mobile applications exposing Kenyans to cyber fraud, CA Report

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A proliferation of mobile applications on popular online stores is exposing Kenyans to increased cyber-attacks and fraud, the latest sector statistics report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows.   The report covering October-December 2018 shows a dramatic spike in malware attacks, targeting mobile devices and which has seen unsuspecting Kenyans defrauded in online

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Sample of the new Phishing email doing the rounds in April 2019

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From: “Mr Albert”<[email protected]> Date: 3 April 2019 at 2:46:19 PM WAT Subject: Message From: Mr.Albert  P Reply-To: <[email protected]> Hello and good day. I am looking to work with a reputable individual/firm to engage in a profit oriented ventures in your country and perhaps with your assistance, we could get low tax rates. I have the directive of Mr. Mikhail

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Tanzania charges Vodacom Tanzania MD with economic crimes: court documents

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  By Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala and Omar Mohammed DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian authorities on Wednesday charged the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania and other telecom executives with economic crimes, court documents seen by Reuters showed. Egyptian Hisham Hendi and other telecom executives “intentionally and wilfully organized a criminal racket, which caused the government …

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This startup built a device to figure out if prescription drugs are fake

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Counterfeit medications claim thousands of lives each year. Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge built a scanner that can detect fake drugs in 20 seconds to protect people from this growing issue. In Africa, the counterfeit drug trade is a $30 billionoperation. As pharmaceutical sales have grown the past few decades, suppliers have begun to flood markets with

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Lagos CP visits family of Kolade Johnson killed by policemen

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By Kazeem Ugbodaga Police Team led by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu, on Tuesday paid condolence visit to the family of Kolade Johnson, who was shot dead by police officers on Sunday. The police team reassured the family that justice must prevail. The CP was accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner of

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Saudi Arabia Executes Nigerian woman For Drug Trafficking

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (image courtesy Reuters) Saudi Arabia has executed a Nigerian woman convicted of trafficking drugs, AFP news agency quotes state media as reporting. The woman was executed along with two Pakistani men and a Yemeni man in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, on Monday. A total of 53 people have been

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Five arrested over Sharjah money exchange robbery

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Foreign currency worth Dh2.3 million recovered from the suspects Sharjah: Five men have been arrested in connection with a daring armed robbery at a money exchange house in Sharjah, police said on Sunday. The suspects, all Nigerian and aged in their 20s, stole currency worth over Dh2 million during a seven-minute heist at the Al

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Man pleads guilty to stealing $100m from Google and Facebook by sending fake invoices

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Evaldas Rimasauska could face up to 30 years in prison after posing as Taiwanese hardware firm Quanta Computer Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50, sent fraudulent invoices to Facebook and Google between 2013 and 2015, according to the US Justice Department (Getty) A Lithuanian man who duped Google and Facebook into transferring over $100m into accounts he controlled has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Evaldas

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