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 ...

Lotenna Chisom Umeadi, a 35-year-old Nigerian citizen, pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud, according to an announcement ...

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 ...

Odisha's Cuttack police arrested a Nigerian national, Djedje Raymond, for extortion and blackmail linked to a woman's tragic ...

also known as the 419 scam (named after Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which deals with fraud), didn’t actually start with email or the internet. It has roots in an old type of fraud ...

Jeremiah Adejoh is wanted in the U.S. on wire fraud charges. Reporters discovered him in Dubai, where he owns a luxury ...

Romance scams, sextortion and the once popular emails from a “Nigerian prince” have been used to swindle victims in the past. The “use of AI and deepfake” will “erase the huge gains made ...

“What Nigerian scams are to your grandfather, Bitcoin exchanges are to the 20-30 semi-tech-savvy libertarian demographic,” he writes. “Even if the Bitcoin protocol were perfect, and it isn ...

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.

The Nigerian is wanted in the US on wire fraud charges ... Mr Adejoh is wanted in the US for allegedly playing out what is ...