Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered a massive online fraud operation, arresting 792 people—including foreign nationals—accused of running cryptocurrency and romance scams. The arrests were made on December 10 in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, at a building known as "Big Leaf," where the scammers were allegedly operating.
The suspects include 148 Chinese nationals, 40 Filipinos, two individuals from Kazakhstan, one Pakistani, and one Indonesian. According to EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren, these foreign individuals trained Nigerian accomplices to lure victims online. They posed as romantic interests, building trust before tricking victims into investing in fake cryptocurrency schemes.
The group’s primary targets were people in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Once the Nigerian recruits gained the victims’ trust on social media platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Telegram, the foreign masterminds would step in to compl...
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