LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After three years of extensive investigation, a global team of academics has created the first-ever “World Cybercrime Index,” which ranks the most important national sources of cybercrime and identifies the world’s major hotspots. The World Cybercrime Index was developed by researchers from the University of Oxford and UNSW Canberra, who surveyed 92 […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed security and law enforcement agencies to scale up efforts at cracking down individuals or organisations involved in cybercrime and transnational car theft. A statement in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Information on Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the President also sent a strong message to the […]
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jacob Ponle, known as Mr Woodberry, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He also agreed to forfeit $8 million in proceeds of wire fraud as well as luxury cars and watches to the foreign government. Woodberry, a known associate of the now-imprisoned internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, recently in […]
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday opened evidence in the trial of a seven-member syndicate that allegedly defrauded customers of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) of N900 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case is before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With reports reaching us, it is noted that the said United States trial of I.G celebrity, Hushpuppi, has been moved to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With information reaching us, this is actually contained in the chambers orders of Judge Otis Wright. His trial will now resume by 9:00 a.m. on […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), has commenced an investigation of Felix Osilama Okpoh, an alleged fraudster on the watch list of the Federal Bureau of Investigations(FBI) for his involvement in a $6m internet fraud. Okpoh, alongside Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, and Nnamdi Orson Benson, had been […]
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LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has extradited 64-year-old Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian living in Ghana, to Memphis to stand trial for an indictment charging him with cybercrimes and identity theft. According to the U.S Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Tennessee indicted Martins […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, is again the subject of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for being the alleged mastermind of a mega scam to the tune of over $1 million. Aroke allegedly […]
Nov 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 17 Nigerians have been deported from Ghana for allegedly committing offences in the country, involving in cyber crimes, known in Nigeria as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’. According to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), it said 29 people were arrested in Ho, the Volta Regional capital but 17 were found involved in […]
Jun 27 2019 | Posted in
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