Teenage boys in the UK are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs that pose as young women online - with the National Crime Agency offeri...

Nigeria and China said this week they will cooperate in efforts to crack down on the increasing number of Chinese nationals taking part in f...

In recent years, Nigeria has gained notoriety as a global hub for internet fraud, a subset of cybercrime popularly known by the slang “yaho...

Thai Police have apprehended a Thai woman at Hat Yai International Airport for her involvement in a massive romance scam operation run by h...

Nigeria man indicted in sextortion scheme after South Carolina teen dies. 19 News Related stories:  Huntsville man admits to laundering mo...

Authorities say a Huntsville man is set for sentencing after he admitted he laundered money for Nigerian sextortionists. Acting U.S. Attorne...

Key data on the Nigerian economy remains inaccessible, nearly three weeks after the nation’s statistics agency shut down its website after i...

The parents of a British teenager who took his own life after becoming a victim of sextortion have made a direct appeal to criminals in Nige...

The Central Bank of Nigeria introduced the 0.005% cybercrime levy targeting banks and telecommunications companies. The government said mo...

Two brothers from Nigeria were sentenced Thursday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting more than 10...

Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networ...

The officers treated journalist Saint Mienpamo Onitsha as if he was violent and dangerous. Guns drawn, they arrested him at the home of a fr...

Two people have been arrested in Nigeria over an alleged sextortion attempt against an Australian schoolboy who took his own life. Australia...

A man is facing charges in Nigeria after a months-long investigation by RCMP into the death of a 14-year-old Surrey, B.C., boy who police sa...

With escalating geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, Nigeria and other countries with weak cyber security profiles are threatened by a ba...

A 28-year-old Nigerian has been arrested in relation to a cybercrime ring involved in phishing, internet, romance scams and money laundering...

The charismatic head of the Intelligence Response team of the Nigeria Police Service, Abba Kyari, has been suspended pending the investigat...

  Nigeria’s regulators tried to crack down on cryptocurrency. Now, a few months later, it’s clear their efforts haven’t worked. The nation i...

Facebook has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, citing "coord...

The FBI's dramatic arrest and indictment of 80 mostly Nigerian cybercriminals in California last week made headlines globally. Closer to...