A 40-year-old Nigerian citizen residing illegally in Houston has pleaded guilty to participating in a business email compromise conspiracy and orchestrating a romance scam targeting victims nationwide ...

Nigerian national Leslie Mba pleads guilty to a $4 million wire fraud scheme involving business email compromise and romance ...

A Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy that took place in Maryland in 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland. U.S. Attorney for ...

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.

A 40-year-old US-based Nigerian, Leslie Mba, faces up to 20 years in prison for a $4m wire fraud conspiracy and an additional five years for making false immigration statements.According to a Thursday ...

SEVIERVILLE (WATE) – One of the country’s longest running scams is taking on a new twist. The Nigerian letter scam is basically a fund-transfer fraud that’s now reaching people by email and the ...

Saheed Owolabi, 34, is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in January. He faces up to 40 years in prison.

Reports are confirming that the Arianna Huffington’s email account was indeed hacked by Nigerian scam artists, following a dubious email sent by the woman’s AOL account to various contacts in her ...

Global What Happens When People Actually Fall for Those Nigerian Email Scams Just in case you needed a couple more reasons to delete that Nigerian email scam in your inbox, how about about possible ...

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado says that a man has been sentenced to 60 months in federal ...

America's Nigerian-American tea party faction got a little bit smaller this week after Sen. Ted Cruz made an ill-advised Nigerian email scam joke during a speech on the Healthcare.gov rollout. Now ...

With him, as always, are his audience of sworn in deputies, who’ll help him pick his way through some true crime conundrums, as part of the BBC’s Scam Safe Week.