Saheed Owolabi, 34, is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in January. He faces up to 40 years in prison.

Have you ever wired money to an overseas bank account simply because you received an email asking you to do so? Probably not, but there are plenty of people who have done just that, and they have paid ...

ST. LOUIS – A woman from St. Louis County faces up to 20 years in prison for her role in a one-million-dollar Nigerian romance scam. Shirley Waller, 43, pleaded guilty to multiple charges in court ...

Scams don’t just harm individual victims — they undermine trust in our entire advertising ecosystem, which is the very ...

A Nigerian woman living abroad has shared a disheartening video narrating how she got scammed of a huge sum of money In a video, she detailed exactly how the unfortunate incident happened and warned ...

Recent years have seen the proliferation of different variations of what is often called the “Nigerian Check Scam.” This scam typically unfolds when someone, usually located outside of the country, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When a Parma Heights finance employee opened an email in June 2023, nothing seemed amiss. The email from a contractor who fixed a road as part of a joint Cuyahoga County and Parma ...

Imagine ordering your dream car and handing over $147,000 to make that dream a reality, only to get… well, nothing. That’s exactly what one Nigerian man claims has happened, and he’s turned to the US ...

April 28, 2006 — -- You receive a letter or e-mail from somebody claiming to be an official (or the relative of an official) with the Nigerian government or a Nigerian company. The writer ...

Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.