Revenge is sweet — and thanks to tattoo ink, sometimes permanent — for a growing legion of "scambaiters" who have taken it upon themselves to punish the thieves behind those Nigerian e-mail scams.

A Nigerian court jailed 15 foreign nationals Friday – all Asians – for “cyber-terrorism and internet fraud,” the national ...

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 ...

This scam is one of the most well-known online frauds in the world. What's the Nigerian Prince Scam? [brokersview.com] Despite being around for decades, this the Nigerian prince scam still tricks ...

A Michigan family is sounding the alarm about sextortion scams on social media after a Nigerian man allegedly drove their 17-year-old son, a high school football player, to commit suicide.

The case illustrates how Nigerian scammers, already known for a variety of internet schemes including "romance" scams, are pivoting towards new technologies to swindle victims. Anne told TF1 she ...

Beware the evolved catfishing scam. A Nigerian couple has been sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a “catfishing” scheme using the U.S. Postal Service. Julie Okoronkwo and her ...

A ‘catfishing’ Nigerian fraudster who duped love-starved victims into forking over millions of dollars in an online romance scam was hit with a 25-year federal prison sentence, federal ...

A 45-year-old Nigerian man, Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jerome, and 13 Thai indigenes have been arrested by the Royal Thai Police for their roles in a romance scam syndicate that defrauded victims of more ...