According to the country’s anticorruption agency, Nigeria has deported 102 foreign nationals, including 60 Chinese and 39 Filipinos, who have been found guilty of “cyber-terrorism and internet fraud.”
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced its decision on Thursday as part of a crackdown on online scams that lacked the funds to buy fake cryptocurrency investments.
Dele Oyewale, a spokesman for the EFCC, later reported to the AFP news agency that another group of 39 Filipinos, 10 Chinese, and two Kazakhstanis had been deported as well as on August 15.
In the upcoming days, he continued, there will be more deportations.
Asian men clad up at airport check-in counters were photographed by the anti-corruption agency in photos.
In a single operation in Lagos’ wealthy Victoria Island area in December, 792 suspected cybercriminals were detained. According to the EFCC, at least 192 of the people detained were foreigners, with 148 of those detained being Chinese.
The EFCC has found several hideouts where young crime suspects can practice online scamming techniques. Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, has a reputation for internet thieves known as “Yahoo Boys.”
Foreign gangs, according to the organization, use phishing scams to lure Nigerian accomplices to online victims. Typically, attackers try to trick victims into giving them access to sensitive information, such as passwords, to defraud them.
According to the EFCC, the scams mainly target Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, and Europeans.
According to experts, cyber-scammers’ deceptive investment schemes have advanced as their use of modern technology and digital tools has advanced.
In the end, victims are left unable to do anything but watch their hard-earned money disappear, many of whom invest their savings, business capital, and borrowed funds.
Source: Aljazeera
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