Scammers are exploiting the Israel/U.S.-Iran conflict with offers of huge payments in return for help with stranded veterans ...

Nigeria has returned more than $270,000 in recovered fraud proceeds to victims in the United States and South Africa, ...

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 ...

Patricia Calhoun of Twin Falls, Idaho, is a very generous woman. Particularly with my phone number. Last Wednesday, my direct line at Westword started ringing before eight in the morning, and it ...

The rapid digitalisation of Nigeria’s education sector was meant to signal progress, faster registration, computer-based testing, ...

Nigerian startup NativeID has launched a free digital identity platform to help small businesses protect themselves from ...

A global investigation involving state and federal police has led to the conviction of two scammers for their role in a vicious sextortion plot that drove a NSW boy to suicide. On Wednesday, a ...

On Sunday, July 31, six men were arrested in Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa after being caught extorting thousands of dollars from closeted gay men as part of an elaborate blackmail scheme.

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 ...

With cryptocurrency fraud and IRS scams making headlines, I had thought Nigerian email schemes were a thing of the past, akin to the bygone days when a scammer might offer to sell you the Brooklyn ...

BY OLALEKAN OLASIYAN Digital transformation has become a defining pillar of Nigeria’s national development strategy. From ...