Tag: CYBERCRIME
Reports of Hushpuppi laundering $400,000 in prison misleading – Cybercrime expert
American cybercrime expert Gary Warner says reports that convicted internet fraudster Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi laundered $400,000 in prison were fake.
Such reports had claimed...
Nigerian on Kenya cybercrime wanted list arrested
Kenyan detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) say they have arrested a wanted Nigerian cybercrime suspect who has been on the run.
A...
October 1: Buhari vows to fight cybercrime
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his commitment to fighting cybercrime and the abuse of technology through hate speech and other divisive materials being propagated...
EFCC, FBI operation lands suspected fraudster in Ikoyi prison
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned suspected internet fraudster, Ani John Chukwuebuka, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences...
N22m scam: EFCC arraigns suspect arrested in collaboration with FBI
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned one Christopher Olalegbin on a two-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune...
EFCC arrests 25 LAUTECH students for internet fraud
The Advance Fee Fraud Unit of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 25 students of the Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho,...
Cybercrime is just a game – Gifty Powers
Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Gifty Powers, has described cybercrime popularly known as 'yahoo yahoo' as a game.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur said this in a since-deleted...
EFCC raises alarm over new dimension of cybercrime in South East
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has said it is worried by the ‘frightening’ dimension which cybercrime
has assumed in the country especially the South East.
Head...
Ali Baba posts video of US hotel without room 419
Foremost Nigerian comedian, Ali Baba, on Friday posted the video of a hotel in Maryland, USA with no room numbered 419.
Capturing the numbers on...
Don’t use slave trade to justify cybercrime, Ruggedman tells Naira Marley
Rap artiste, Ruggedman, has told colleague, Naira Marley, not to use the slave trade to justify cybercrime.
This is
coming after the ‘Issa Goal’ singer...