Hundreds arrested in US-Nigeria crackdown on cyber scams
16 October 2019 |
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US and Nigerian authorities have dismantled multiple groups running so-called business email compromise schemes. The online scams led to $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) in worldwide losses in 2018.
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