In this report, GBENGA OLONINIRAN details how foreign ex-convicts flee their home countries, set up fraud syndicates in ...

The proliferation of artificial intelligence has fuelled a surge in scams, with fraudsters increasingly using deepfake videos ...

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.

A top Nigerian bank is leading the list of banks with highest fraud cases in 2025, withN1.64 billion reported in the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

AFTER being scammed out of thousands by a stranger online Kay Perea had never felt so low. She never imagined that the key to ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has blamed the growing rate of fraud in Nigeria on “laziness” and “greed” ...

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 ...

Not to be outdone by Nigerian cybercriminals, Jamaican scammers are now dialing your number in the hopes they can lure you into paying an upfront fee for a huge — but nonexistent — briefcase full of ...

The family of a 33-year-old Nigerian engineer, Obinna Okeadu, from Mbano in Imo State, has cried out for justice following his gruesome death in a job-scam ...