Nigerian mafia leaders arrested after Hawks swoop in Cape Town

[Crayons]

Divorcees are so desperate you dont even need to scam them.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Meanwhile the real criminals who stole R500 Billion are still at large.

 

[supersunbird]

Divorcees are so desperate you dont even need to scam them.

While that is true, I can not see myself being a "Judge Judy type boyfriend", as I like to call the one type of defendants often seen on there, and taking their money offered.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Hope our squadies were taking notes.

 

[Rickster]

What about those scumbag fks in India?

Jim Browning is a true hero exposing them, just need Interpol to catch them.

 

[airborne]

Good bye scumbags, hope your jail stay is extended and miserable!

 

[Scampup]

Why is it that an external intelligence organization has to come in to combat crime that is taking place on SA soil. Is our intelligence agencies that incompetent. My bad they would have been bribed and the docket would have been lost.

But did the crime take place on South African soil? If a victim is in the USA or US resources are being used?

It's always better when law enforcement partners in cyber crime. Without it, every requests for information from South Africa to the likes of Google, WhatsApp, Facebook etc would require an MLATs. Each MLAT is a six month process. If, during the investigation discovery process, more clues are uncovered that requires more information, the rinse and repeat process continues and takes much time. While this is happening, more people will be scammed, logs will be purged, evidence will get lost. Realistically your criminals would have a better chance of dying of old age than being arrested.

Considering the US initiated this, the perpetrators were using South Africa as a base to not only target US and ZA victims, it would be stupid to not cooperate. This drastically speeds up the evidence gathering process, even though it still takes a while to develop a case up to arrests, such as here.

 

[Scampup]

Good bye scumbags, hope your jail stay is extended and miserable!

It will be.

 

[Scampup]

South African police arrest eight romance scammers for stealing $6.85 million

The South African Police Service has arrested eight suspects on charges of engaging in romance scams and stealing more than 100 million rand ($6.85 million) from victims.

therecord.media

Much the same info, except:

The arrests in South Africa come after US officials arrested 33 Black Axe members last month on similar offenses of romance scams and BEC fraud.


The arrests today also come a month after the FBI sent out a security alert on September 16 about an increase in romance scams across the US. At the time, the agency said it received more than 1,800 complaints about romance scams in the first seven months of 2021, with losses of more than $133 million.


According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report for 2020, romance scams were the eighth most common form of cybercrime reported in the US last year, but the second in reported losses, with more than $600 million being reported stolen last year.

US arrests 33 BEC scammers linked to Nigerian crime syndicate

The FBI has arrested 33 individuals across Texas for a series of cybercrime-related activities, including BEC and romance scams.

therecord.media

 

[Zameside]

The have their hands in in many pots, been operating out of Tableview for years.Once they get into a Facebook group they wreck havoc.

 

[JohnStarr]

Drop them somewhere off Cape Town's coastline. About 10km out would be fine. Less criminals to worry about getting through our sketchy criminal system and back to freedom.

 

[Thor]

Was going to ask if they were near Parklands side.

The area has become know as a Nigerian "hot spot" over the years.

Yea parklands is a cesspool of Nigerians.

Won't buy or live there.

Tableview basically, gone to crap.

But then again so has most of SA.

 

[CTSA]

Yea parklands is a cesspool of Nigerians.

Won't buy or live there.

Tableview basically, gone to crap.

But then again so has most of SA.

I remember over 10 years ago, when Sea Point was a cesspool of Nigerians and Parklands was a sought-after suburb. Now it vice-versa. Same with many places in SA, so nothing's really changed.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

I bet you the fake profiles portrayed wealthy white Packing men, looking for their true love.

FTFY

 

[emperornemesis]

FBI arrests notorious leaders of nigerian mafia. Two weeks from now, nigeria sends replacements as leaders were arrested. There is only one way to cut off the head of these 419 scammers, and that is to cut off their internet access in west africa. While these mofos have internet access, they will forever run their scams. Got one a while ago, before Hangouts went offline. He was trying to convince me that is is some rich white banking ceo. I video called him and the moron actually answered to reveal him living in absolute squalor, sitting outside a shack in nigeria. Even after I saw him, he still maintained that he is a rich white dude. The problem is that these morons are now moving to SA and getting fake passports here (the reason the UK introduced VISAs for SA citizens in 2010)to move out into the world. A LOT OF THEM operate out of our universities as they come here claiming to be students. The Vaal University of Technology is one such hotspot. I have traced a lot of them to the VUT about four years ago and alerted the VUT management and police, and nothing was done.

 

[emperornemesis]

Why is it that an external intelligence organization has to come in to combat crime that is taking place on SA soil. Is our intelligence agencies that incompetent. My bad they would have been bribed and the docket would have been lost.

Because the Government does not appoint peoole on basis of merrit or intelligence, but on political allegiance, and let's face it, only absolute morons support the anc, so the anc is haooy to deploy those morons, because theg know that if the morons have to solit on each other, at least a few **** ups will happen, some paperwork will get lost, bribes will be paid, and morons will go free on technicalities. If you see the amount of applicants applying for government positions with fake paperwork, whether it be fake matric certficates, fake degrees or fake diplomas, you will shudder! In 2001 I worked for a company that sold copiers. We were accross the street of a college. So one day the Sowetan publish a add for about 1000 government jobs. Our receptionist was overwhelmed by the amount of requests to alter matric certificate scores, subjects and dates. Young people wanted he to fake university degrees. People with a snowballs chance in hell of getting a normal matric, were suddenly applying for director positions where degrees were required, and by the current looks of the Emfuleni municipality, I'd say a lot of them got employed there. In 2012, the Northern Provinces bar council put out a statement where they decried the fact that more than 50% of new law graduates are incapable of even writing their own names, and the majority of then cannot argue a legal case or do logical reasoning. We are ****ed.

 

[surface]

What about those scumbag fks in India?

Jim Browning is a true hero exposing them, just need Interpol to catch them.

Call Centre scams? If you google, there are regular raids & arrests being made. Pretty sure FBI/US authorities would be involved in information sharing there.

When trouble calls: Behind Delhi’s call centre scam duping US citizens

With thousands of ‘call centres’ cropping up in Delhi to dupe US citizens, police are having to grapple with tech savvy fraudsters and sophisticated modus operandi

indianexpress.com

 

[Mekon]

Well done to all involved, it was simply a matter of time before they got busted locally.

Mentioned, is Italy:

Black Axe mafia: Italian police arrest 30 Nigerian suspected gang members

Police say the gang used bitcoins to carry out illegal financial transactions on the dark web.

www.bbc.com

Going back a bit, more about on this organization using altruism as a front:

The Notorious Black Axe Has Put Down Roots in Canada

The elusive group, feared in Nigeria for its brutality, has been exerting “undue influence over the Nigerian diaspora” in Canada, as well as engaging in organized crime and violence, police allege.

www.vice.com

They certainly spreading like a virus

 

[Mekon]

The have their hands in in many pots, been operating out of Tableview for years.Once they get into a Facebook group they wreck havoc.

Good plan, our local shark population need a dietary supplement.

 

[Ponderer]

Good plan, our local shark population need a dietary supplement.

The sharks will probably die if they eat that garbage.