Meta today said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organisations that created them could use them,” WhatsApp external affairs director Clair Deevy said. Often r...
•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued a warning to candidates about a scam targeting those who missed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Scammers are demanding N15,700 from candidates under the guise of rescheduling their exams, using the account number 8520641017 at Sterling Bank. ...
•Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (center) Thailand’s Prime Minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, has disclosed an encounter with a phone scam involving artificial intelligence, where the system mimicked the voice of a prominent world leader to demand money. Speaking about the incident, Paetongtarn recounted, “The voice was very clear, and I ...
•Governor Adeleke The spokesperson for the Osun State governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, has alerted members of the public today that one of his boss’s mobile phone numbers has been hacked. The spokesperson, who made this known in a statement in Osogbo, urged members of the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities to [&hel...
Kaspersky experts have conducted a large-scale study on the resistance of 193 million English passwords – compromised by infostealers and available on the darknet – to brute force and smart guessing attacks. The results show that 45% of all analysed passwords (87-million) could be guessed by scammers within a minute, reports Daily Independen...
•Chinese policemen More than 800 people suspected of being cross-border scammers were arrested in a joint police operation by Myanmar and China, the junta and Beijing’s embassy in Yangon said today. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar, staffed by citizens from China and other countries who are often forced to work swindling their compatr...
•The suspects The Kogi State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC has paraded one Faruk Abdullahi for the procurement of fake employment letter of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Authority NIMASA to Sule Abdullahi at the cost of two million naira. Also paraded were pastor Chimezie who collected one Milli...
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