Once victims were hooked, they were pressured to transfer money for fake cryptocurrency schemes and other non-existent projects.
Nigeria ’s anti-graft agency said it had arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured victims with offers of romance, then pressed them to hand over cash for phony cryptocurrency investments.
The suspects, including 148 Chinese and 40 Filipino nationals, were detained on Dec. 10 at the seven-story Big Leaf Building in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren said. The luxury building housed a call center mostly targeting victims from the Americas and Europe, he added. Nigerian authorities arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured victims with offers of romance, then pressed them to hand over cash for phony cryptocurrency investments.Staff there would make contact with people through social media and messaging platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram, them seduce them online or offer them apparently lucrative investment opportunities, Uwujaren told reporters. Holiday heist diverts $1M in toys on 3 different trucks — in new type of scam that threatens US businesses Young Wall Street bankers snort lines of crushed Adderall pills from their desk to cope with 22-hour workdays: report Many CEOs don't want bodyguards even after UnitedHealthcare exec's murder — here's what they're doing instead “Nigerian accomplices were recruited by the foreign kingpins to prospect for victims online through phishing, targeting mostly Americans, Canadians, Mexicans and several others from European countries,” Uwujaren said. “Once the Nigerians are able to win the confidence of would-be victims, the foreigners would take over the actual task of defrauding the victims,” he said. Uwujaren said the Commission was collaborating with international partners and would look into potential links to organized crime. Its agents seized computers, phones and vehicles in the raid, he added.Holiday heist diverts $1M in toys on 3 different trucks — in new type of scam that threatens US businesses Young Wall Street bankers snort lines of crushed Adderall pills from their desk to cope with 22-hour workdays: report
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