‘Mafia Africa’: A deep dive into Nigerian organised crime in France
10 March 2023 |
5:18 am
Nigerian crime is synonymous with cyber crime, and variants of the original so-called 419 scam. These are emails where the suspect claims to be a prince or princess without access to their riches, and promise to share their windfall if we help them out financially. The victim's bank account is then emptied and the suspect is never heard from again.
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