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Saturday, 17 February 2024 04:44

I'm a reformed romance scammer - these are the tricks I used to fleece 50 women

During five years as a romance scammer, Christopher, now 24, posed as an American army man to prowl social media platforms and dating sites in search of his next victim, and successfully tricked up to 50 women into sending a total of £55,400. Speaking to Money Mail, the self-confessed reformed scammer reveals the deceptive and cruel tricks he used to seduce women across the English-speaking world from the UK to the US, Canada and Australia. Christopher, who is using a pseudonym and now works as a consultant at fraud-busting group Social Catfish, started scamming in 2016 as a way of…

Wednesday, 14 February 2024 04:46

Gunmen kill four, abduct at least 40 in Zamfara community

Armed men killed four people, including two policemen, and kidnapped at least 40 others in an attack on Kaura Namoda, in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, police and residents said on Tuesday. Africa's largest economy is grappling with a multifaceted security crisis, including kidnappings for ransom in the northwest, which has reached alarming proportions. Zamfara police spokesperson Yazid Abubakar confirmed the attack and said reinforcements have been deployed to the Kasuwar Daji district of the town where the incident took place. Residents, including some of the victims, told Reuters by phone about their ordeal which began with an attack on the…

Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:48

Gunmen free 7 inmates, kill police officer, abduct another in Imo prison attack - Police

At least seven inmates of the Okigwe Correctional Service farm settlement in Okigwe LGA escaped from the facility during an attack by some gunmen on Monday. In a statement issued after the attack, Henry Okoye, police spokesperson in Imo, said the attackers also killed a police inspector. Okoye said Aboki Danjuma, the commissioner of police, has deployed a special tactical squad to go after the attackers. He added that the gunmen were suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). “The commissioner of police Imo state command, Aboki Danjuma has deployed the command’s special tactical squad…

Saturday, 10 February 2024 04:43

Bandits abduct 16 from Katsina community

Armed bandits have targeted Kogo village in Faskari Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State, kidnapping 16 residents, including children, women, and men. According to a local resident who spoke with our correspondent, the attack which was carried out at about 8:20pm yesterday, caught the villagers off guard as the assailants executed their plan with meticulous precision. “The hoodlums quietly infiltrated the community, parked their motorcycles at a distance to avoid detection. Without causing much uproar, the assailants targeted a residence and eventually took away 16 people comprising of children, women, and men. The community is now grappling with fear…

Saturday, 10 February 2024 04:40

Employee transfers $25m to scammers after Deepfake video call with fake CFO

A Hong Kong finance worker at a multinational company was tricked into transferring $25 million to scammers after attending a video conference with deepfake CFO and several colleagues. Hong Kong police recently reported that it is investigating an elaborate scam that saw a group of bad actors defraud a multinational firm of $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million) using deepfake technology to impersonate company management during a video call. Fraudsters initially targeted one of the unnamed company’s finance workers with an email from the company’s UK-based chief financial officer (CFO). Seeing that the message involved a ‘secret transaction’ to…

Tuesday, 06 February 2024 04:49

13 Abuja-bound passengers abducted from two buses in Kogi, Police confirm

At least 13 passengers have been abducted by gunmen in Kogi state. The passengers, who were said to have been travelling from the south-east to Abuja, were kidnapped in Inyele Eteke, Olalamaboro LGA, on Saturday. The gunmen reportedly hijacked the vehicles before abducting the occupants. William Aya, police spokesperson in Kogi, confirmed the development to our correspondent Monday night. Aya said the incident involved a GIGM bus carrying 12 passengers and a vehicle owned by ABC Transport with two occupants. The police spokesperson said the driver of the GIGM bus has been rescued by security operatives. “Efforts are on to…

Monday, 05 February 2024 04:55

Abducted Ekiti pupils, teachers released after kidnappers got N15m ransom, fried rice, others - Report

Parents of five abducted pupils of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti on Sunday said they went through a tedious journey before securing the release of their children. The abducted five pupils of the school were released on Sunday after the kidnappers collected a N15m ransom. Apart from the ransom, the kidnappers insisted on collecting fried rice, energy drinks and cigarettes. The school proprietor, Gabriel Adesanya, told The PUNCH that the driver was killed. According to him, the corpse of the driver, who was kidnapped alongside the pupils and staff members of the school, has yet to be…

Sunday, 04 February 2024 04:51

ISWAP terrorists kill four police officers in hot exchange of gunfire in Borno

At least four police officers were killed in Nigeria's northeast Borno state after a gun battle with suspected Islamist insurgents, a police spokesperson said on Saturday. Borno has been the heartland of an insurgency by Boko Haram and splinter outfit Islamist State West Africa Province (ISWAP) for more than a decade in the northeast, where they continue to carry out deadly attacks against civilian and security targets. Borno state police spokesperson Nahum Daso Kenneth said the militants had on Friday night attacked Gajiram town in the Nganzai local government area, some 82 kilometres (51 miles) from Maiduguri, the state capital.…

Saturday, 03 February 2024 04:46

Newly wed bride, 30 other women accompanying her to husband’s home kidnapped in Katsina

A bride, and at least 30 women accompanying the bride to her new home were abducted by gunmen along Gamji Road in Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State on Thursday night. The women, with the bride, were travelling in a truck to Ungwan Murjiya village between 8:30 and 9:00 pm when they were ambushed by the assailants. A local source reported that the truck conductor was shot and is currently receiving treatment at Damari Hospital. In a separate incident around the same time, gunmen believed to be from Siddi forest in Kaduna State entered Tashar Nadaya village, near the…

Friday, 02 February 2024 05:00

Gunmen storm palace of Kwara traditional ruler, kill monarch, abduct wife, two others

Gunmen on Thursday night invaded the palace of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti local government area of Kwara State and killed the traditional ruler of the community, Segun Aremu, a retired army general. The gunmen also whisked away the wife of the monarch and two others. Koro in Kwara is the neighbouring town of Irele/Oke Ako/Ipao/Oke Aiyedun and Ikole and shares boundaries with Ekiti State where two monarchs were recently killed. Spokeswoman of the Kwara State Police command, Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in the wee hours of Friday. According to her, “immediate and intensive investigations…

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Friday, 02 February 2024 04:58

Bandits abduct top civil servant from Abuja home 200m away from military base

The family of Aondoove Gwaza, a director at the Federal Housing Authority Mortgage Bank in the Federal Capital Territory, who was abducted from his home, during an attack about 200 metres close to a military base in Pwanbara in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja, have been devastated, as the bandits are yet to contact his relatives as of Thursday night. The bandits, who struck at about 12:30 am on Thursday, shot indiscriminately, causing panic in the area, before escaping through the bushes with the abductee. Residents who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Thursday revealed that soldiers were…

Thursday, 01 February 2024 04:51

Two teenage sisters abducted from Abuja home

Gunmen numbering six, last Sunday, broke into a home at Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. During the attack, they took two sisters, said to be 16 and 14 years old. The gunmen, it was gathered, escaped through the bush track, which links the community to another village. Confirming the incident to our reporter, a resident who doesn’t want his name in print due to fear of victimization, said the attackers initially took three siblings; two girls and one boy, but they went away with two girls and sent back the boy from…

Wednesday, 31 January 2024 04:38

Kidnappers demand N100m ransom for Ekiti schoolchildren, teachers

Kidnappers of five pupils of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, and four staff members have demanded N100m ransom for the release of the nine victims who were taken away on Monday. Principal of the secondary section of the school, Boje Olanireti, confirmed the ransom demand, in an interview with our correspondent on Tuesday. The abduction epidemic has continued to defy efforts of the security agencies as cases of kidnappings were being recorded in various parts of the country daily. On Monday, gunmen killed two Ekiti monarchs-the Onimojo of Imojo, Olatunde Olusola, and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti, Babatunde…

Tuesday, 30 January 2024 04:53

Two Ekiti traditional rulers shot dead as they tried to escape from kidnappers

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday killed two Ekiti State monarchs on the Ipao-Oke Ako Road. The gunmen killed the Onimojo of Imojo in the Oye Local Government Area, Oba Olatunde Olusola, and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti in the Ikole Local Government Area, Oba Babatunde Ogunsakin, while the Alara of Ara Ekiti, Oba Adebayo Fatoba in the Ikole Local Government Area, escaped. Sources said the traditional rulers were returning from a function in Kogi State when their vehicles ran into the suspected kidnappers, who had laid an ambush on the road. According to sources, while the bandits chased…

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