A Nigerian national living in Houston was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $4 million scam. Prosecutors say Mba attempted to obtain lawful permanent residency through ...

Have you ever wired money to an overseas bank account simply because you received an email asking you to do so? Probably not, but there are plenty of people who have done just that, and they have paid ...

These days, scams are everywhere: phone calls, emails, social media, you name it. Scammers are always looking for new ways to steal your money or personal information. Sadly, many Nigerians fall ...

A 27-year-old man, Yusuf Abdullahi, who allegedly posed as a serving officer of the Nigerian Air Force has been arrested in Lagos following what military authorities say was a three-year scheme ...

Meta, UK National Crime Agency (NCA), and Nigerian Police disrupt an online fraud network in Nigeria. The syndicate used fake social media accounts and fraudulent groups to target people based in the ...

The latest study showed that Nigerian banks in the past four weeks faced defacement attacks on their websites. A security assessment of Nigerian banks’ websites in the last two weeks carried out by ...

Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday arraigned Fidet Okhiria Edetanle, former Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), before Justice ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...