A U.S. District Court in Tacoma sentenced Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, a 42-year-old Nigerian man to five years in prison for stealing $3.5 million dollars through an online romance scam.

Japanese and Nigerian police have jointly dismantled a criminal ring involved in social media investment and romance scams ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nigerian romance scammer was found guilty last month of money laundering. His victims include a Triangle area man trying to buy ...

Carlos Barragán is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times and the author of “The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and ...

A quest to expose fraudsters in Lagos led Carlos Barragán to a criminal racket fuelled by poverty — and by western loneliness ...

A 45-year-old Nigerian national residing in Frisco, Texas, Okeoghene Patrick Udugba, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States over allegations of involvement in romance and ...

A 27-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested in India for allegedly overstaying his medical visa and being in possession of 5.085kg of methamphetamine valued at more than Rs10 crore. According to ...

Carlos Barragán uncovers the world of Nigerian romance scammers in his new book "The Yahoo Boys." Last year Americans lost nearly $1 billion to a type of online scam that preys on increasing numbers ...

Okeoghene Patrick Udugba, a 45-year-old Nigerian resident in the United States, has been indicted by a federal grand jury over his alleged involvement in a sophisticated romance scam and business ...

With cryptocurrency fraud and IRS scams making headlines, I had thought Nigerian email schemes were a thing of the past, akin to the bygone days when a scammer might offer to sell you the Brooklyn ...

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