{"id":90062,"date":"2025-08-23T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90062"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:25:50","slug":"cybercrime-in-africa-when-africans-target-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/cybercrime-in-africa-when-africans-target-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercrime in Africa: When Africans target Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k5t7SydgiPvzTEDHuJ0\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nYou probably aren\u2019t the sole heir of a fortune left to you by a Nigerian princess. Nor are millions of people around the world who end up getting scammed by cybercriminals using similar stories each year. Vast scamming industries have sprung up all across Africa \u2014 but contrary to popular belief, most fraud victims are actually African. Are governments doing enough to fight these syndicates?<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably aren\u2019t the sole heir of a fortune left to you by a Nigerian princess. Nor are millions of people around the world who end up getting scammed by cybercriminals using similar stories each year. Vast scamming industries have sprung up all across Africa \u2014 but contrary to popular belief, most fraud victims are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[57,38155,25617],"class_list":["post-90062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-africa","tag-africans-target","tag-cybercrime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90064,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062\/revisions\/90064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}