A 77-year-old retired lecturer from Edinburgh, Nikki MacLeod, has come forward to share her ordeal of falling victim to an elaborate online romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scam, which cost her £17,000, highlights the growing sophistication of cybercriminals leveraging artificial intelligence to manipulate unsuspecting victims. Speaking during BBC Scotland’s Scam Safe Week, Nikki […]
A US court has found a Nigerian US-based man, Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54 and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, 49, guilty of masterminding a multi-million dollar dark web drug trafficking operation, and has sentenced them to a combined 40 years in jail term. This was revealed in a statement on the website of the United States Attorney’s […]
A UK court Tuesday handed life sentences to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl who died after being subjected to a prolonged campaign of “despicable abuse”. Urfan Sharif, 43, and Beinash Batool, 30, were sentenced at London’s Old Bailey court for the murder of Sara Sharif, whose body was found covered in […]
A Nigerian man, identified as Johnson, has been arrested in Delhi for duping an Indian woman from Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, with a fake matrimonial profile and promising marriage. Rajnandgaon police apprehended Johnson, who is accused of swindling the woman of lakhs of rupees under the pretense of marriage. Police revealed that Johnson had been living in […]
A senior Anglican bishop, who will soon take temporary charge of the scandal-hit Church, faced calls to quit on Monday over his own handling of a sexual abuse case. Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, the Anglican Church’s second most senior cleric, will take charge for a few months in the New Year following the resignation […]
The authorities in Finland have frozen the assets of Simon Ekpa, the self-styled prime minister of Biafra in exile. Police arrested Ekpa in November on suspicion of terrorism offences, and the Päijät-Häme District Court in Finland ordered his remand that same month. Ekpa is being held in Kylmäkoski Prison, states an earlier report by local […]
A 37-year-old Nigerian, Abiola Kayode, who had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, has been extradited from Ghana to Nebraska, United States. This followed a conspiracy to commit wire fraud indictment filed against him in August 2019. According to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Nebraska on Thursday, […]
The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide explosion at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul, a government source told AFP. “Unfortunately an explosion happened at the Ministry of Refugees and minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani has been martyred along with some of his colleagues,” the official said, requesting not to […]
Jay Z, the billionaire rapper, has been accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in the ongoing suit against Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs. A federal lawsuit, which originally mentioned only Combs, was refiled on Sunday in New York to add Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. The updated civil complaint alleged that Jay-Z and Diddy […]
Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi and face a minimum of three years imprisonment for allegedly defrauding an Indian woman of over Rs 2.62 lakh. A report by The Times of India on Saturday stated that the cybercrime police apprehended Lezhu John, Gibril Mohammed, and Egboola Ekena in connection with a case involving the […]
