INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV has delivered 58 arrests and identified 263 suspects across 22 countries in an eight-month crackdown targeting West African organised crime groups, including Black Axe. The operation ran from November 2025 to June 2026 and focused on cyber-enabled financial crime, money laundering and the people helping criminal networks move and hide their…
US prosecutor Erin West and cybersecurity researcher Paul Raffile have travelled to Nigeria to investigate sextortion networks accused of targeting American teenagers, following the digital trail from a fake teenage profile to suspected scammers near Lagos. Their investigation, released in a documentary on July 29, also explored the controversial “Yahoo Plus” ritual practices associated with…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has uncovered a suspected fake university operating from a three-bedroom apartment in Ilado, Olorunda Local Council Development Area of Badagry, Lagos State, rescuing 106 young people allegedly lured into an elaborate admission scam. The operation followed days of intelligence gathering and covert surveillance by the Badagry Area…
