Former National Coordinator of the Nigerian Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Hajia Halima Shehu, has threatened to take legal action against popular blogger Tunde Ednut over what she ...

Nigeria has announced the deportation of another round of foreign nationals convicted of crimes ranging from cyber-terrorism ...

Nigeria has deported 102 foreign nationals, including 60 Chinese and 39 people from the Philippines, who were convicted of ...

Nigeria has deported dozens of foreigners, including 50 Chinese nationals, in a major crackdown over the last week on one of ...

Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists.

It was called the “ Nigerian 419 scam.” In the package, the sender falsely claimed he was a Nigerian official who promised to transfer a lot of money to the victim in exchange for a small fee.

Savvy Internet users are familiar with ubiquitous Nigerian e-mail scams. But the scammers are savvy themselves, and their plots are taking ingenious twists. Here's how to recognize the scams and ...

'Iceman' who overcame blindness to become CT martial arts champion dies at 29 commonly known as a 419 Scam. It's named after a section of the Nigerian Penal Code that criminalizes these acts.

Nigerian 419 scams: effective as ever Nigerian e-mail scams are still going strong, and they don't just fleece the … ...

“Nigerian Prince” scams are also known as “ 419 scams,” a reference to the Nigerian penal code designed to deal with them. They are notoriously difficult to prosecute for both Nigerian and ...

Who dis Nigerian scammers slide into DMs, so Ars trolls them Romance scams persist, somehow, by preying on the gullible; Twitter is fertile ground. Sean Gallagher – Jul 18, 2019 12:58 PM | 142 ...