Nigeria deported Chinese scammers after bite to “Syndicate Foreign”

Nigeria deported dozens of foreigners, including 50 Chinese citizens, in a major repression in the last week on one of the “major cybercrime syndicates under the leadership of Foreign Affairs”.

“This brings a common repatriate by foreign citizens up to 102 in current exercises,” the statement said, adding that they were found guilty of “cyberterism and fraud on the Internet.”

Last Friday, they are among 192 foreigners arrested during the Sting operation in Lagos.

Nigeria is famous for fraud on the Internet, and Romanesque’s fraud is. Cybercrime cases were one of the most common crimes in Nigeria last year, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

In recent years, the EFCC has successfully smashed several repositories where young cybercrations, local, known as “Yahoo Boys”, study their scam skills.

There were also several high-profile cases of cyber-scam-related Nigerians living outside the country, a non-Cathing, revealed by the US Federal Bureau (FBI).

On Thursday, EFCC posted photos on the X foreigners he deported that day. They were shown in long lines at the airport, facial masks and their luggage.

“Further deportations are planned in the coming days,” the agency said.

The operation, dubbed “Eagle Flush”, was proposed after “effective intelligence” was obtained, EFCC said.

Since 192, arrested in Sting, 148 have been Chinese, he added.

This is the second fraud of foreigners suspected of participating in cybercrime over the last year.

Almost 800 suspects, including 148 Chinese and 40 Philippine citizens, were arrested in December last year in that the authorities called an organized network in which foreigners cooperated with Nigeria recruits for Romanesque and cryptocurrency investment frauds.

EFCC has linked to Nigeria increasing cases of cybercrime with unemployment growth, search for rapid wealth among young people, a large informal economy and weak normative framework.

Last year the instagram owner, meta, Issued thousands of accounts in Nigeria who tried to focus on people in Internet sexTortion.

Such scammers usually imagine themselves young women on the Internet to trick people who send sexually obvious materials before blackmailing them.

The company said it also reduced 5,700 Facebook groups, in which scammers offered tips like fraudsters.

Experts and authorities previously warned social media users about remaining experienced and wary of the dangers Among them the obvious lift.