Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) deported 102 foreign nationals, including 60 Chinese and 39 Filipinos, convicted of cyber-terrorism and internet fraud. Another group of 39 Filipinos, 10 Chinese and two Kazakh nationals were deported since August 15, with more removals scheduled. The agency released images of Asian men in surgical masks at airport check-ins. The deportees were among 792 suspected cybercriminals arrested in a December operation in Victoria Island, Lagos; 192 arrested were foreign nationals, 148 of them Chinese. Foreign gangs recruit Nigerian accomplices to run phishing and romance scams targeting Americans, Canadians, Mexicans and Europeans, using increasingly sophisticated fraudulent crypto investment schemes.
Nigeria has deported 102 foreign nationals, including 60 Chinese and 39 people from the Philippines, who were convicted of cyber-terrorism and internet fraud, according to the country's anticorruption agency. The announcement by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday comes as the country steps up a crackdown on online scam operations, which lured victims through online romances to hand over cash for fake cryptocurrency investments.
EFCC spokesman Dele Oyewale later told the AFP news agency that another group of 39 Filipinos, 10 Chinese and two people from Kazakhstan had also been deported since August 15. More deportations were also scheduled in the coming days, he added. The anticorruption agency released pictures of Asian men wearing surgical face masks, lined up at airport check-in counters. The deportees were among 792 suspected cybercriminals arrested in a single operation in the affluent Victoria Island area of Lagos in December.
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