EFCC accuses banks and fintechs of failing KYC, enabling fraud that defrauded 900,000 Nigerians of N18 billion. Arrests made; ...

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 ...

Nigeria's EFCC has called for the prosecution of banks aiding crypto scams.

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.

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – A woman from St. Louis County faces up to 20 years in prison for her role in a one-million-dollar Nigerian romance scam. Shirley Waller, 43, pleaded guilty to multiple charges in court ...

SEVIERVILLE (WATE) – One of the country’s longest running scams is taking on a new twist. The Nigerian letter scam is basically a fund-transfer fraud that’s now reaching people by email and the ...

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 ...

American songwriter, Clarissa Zoe Arokodare, against the backdrop of prevalent love scams, narrates how she hired a security firm to investigate her husband, when he proposed to her.

Tir’s investigation began with an interview with the parents of a blackmailed young man who had taken his own life. She then very bravely went to speak to the blackmailing “sexploiters” in the ...