LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pensioner has revealed how a “very convincing” telephone scam cost him £4,000 as he issued a warning to others. Harold Richardson, 75, from Kent, was targeted last July when a fraudster called him up and pretended to be from Microsoft. The scammer falsely told Harold that his computer had been infected…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On June 18, Solomon James, a point-of-sale operator in Kaduna State, was going about his daily activities when his phone kept screaming a series of debit alerts that would later amount to N1 million. James told FIJ that after many failed attempts to stop the continual unauthorised transaction, a strange caller who…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A scammer in China used artificial intelligence to pose as a businessman’s trusted friend and convince him to hand over millions of yuan, authorities have said. The victim, surnamed Guo, received a video call last month from a person who looked and sounded like a close friend. But the caller was actually…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gal Pissetzky, the lawyer representing suspected fraudster, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, has said that his client is into real estate and not fraud. Mr Pissetzky told Forbes that Hushpuppi has legitimate businesses and was paid for promoting brands on social media. He said his client is “absolutely not guilty of…