A trial started in Munich on Monday of 12 suspected members of the Nigerian mafia, accused of love scamming victims into ...

In 2024, the company detected over 414,000 ‘Nigerian’ email scams, demonstrating the persistence of these schemes. Recent examples include fraudsters posing as romantic partners seeking ...

At this point, disenfranchised "Nigerian royalty" asking for money through a poorly worded email is the ultimate cliche of internet scams. So why does it still exist? According to new book "Think ...

(FOX 2) - As a former Nigerian scammer puts it, the recipe for stealing ... "the goal is to make them fall in love with me and make them trust me 100 percent" Maxwell made good money tricking ...

The case illustrates how Nigerian scammers, already known for a variety of Internet schemes including “romance” scams, are pivoting towards new technologies to swindle victims. Anne told TF1 ...

Some of the scams have earned the name "419" after the clause in the Nigerian criminal code that deals with obtaining property under false pretense.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Sydney father was part of a Nigerian scam that took millions of dollars off lonely Australian women and defrauded businesses ...

Telangana Anti Narcotics Bureau uncovered a Rs 6.64 crore drug money laundering racket spanning the US, India, and Nigeria.

Japanese and Nigerian police have jointly dismantled a criminal ring involved in social media investment and romance scams that defrauded victims in Japan, the National Police Agency announced on Feb.

The Nigerian is wanted in the US on wire fraud ... the US for allegedly playing out what is commonly known as a "romance scam," according to an indictment filed in February 2024, which has not ...

Teenage boys in the UK are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs that pose as ... as young as 14 have been targeted with "sextortion" scams on social networks including Snapchat and Instagram.