{"id":888946,"date":"2024-12-18T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=888946"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:30:57","slug":"how-nigerian-scammers-used-whatsapp-instagram-in-international-romance-and-crypto-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/18\/how-nigerian-scammers-used-whatsapp-instagram-in-international-romance-and-crypto-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nigerian scammers used WhatsApp, Instagram in international romance and crypto scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities have busted a major international scam operation that lured victims with promises of romance and lucrative cryptocurrency investments, a report has said. In a raid on a seven-story building in Lagos, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested 792 suspects, including 148 Chinese nationals and 40 Filipinos.<br \/>\nAccording to a report by news agency Reuters, these suspects were detained on December 10. It added that the building housed a sophisticated call centre where scammers targeted victims primarily from the Americas and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities have busted a major international scam operation that lured victims with promises of romance and lucrative cryptocurrency investments, a report has said. In a raid on a seven-story building in Lagos, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested 792 suspects, including 148 Chinese nationals and 40 Filipinos. According to a report by news agency Reuters, these suspects were detained on December 10. It added that the building housed a sophisticated call centre where scammers targeted victims primarily from the Americas and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}