BENTON, Ill. – A Nigerian national appeared in federal court on Thursday to be sentenced for running romance scams in Illinois and other parts of the country, defrauding at least a dozen people of ...

To mark International Fraud Awareness Week, Nigerian banks sent messages to customers on the need to guard sensitive ...

Two Nigerian men received 30-month prison sentences for a multi-million dollar money laundering scheme that targeted the ...

Suspected members of the Nigerian mafia sit in the courtroom at the start of their trial. They are believed to be representatives of the Nigerian "Black Axe" brotherhood. Investigators allege that ...

For anyone selling pricey merchandise on the Internet, beware greetings from Nigeria. After years of flooding mailboxes, fax machines and e-mail accounts with artfully written letters promising ...

The “Nigerian Letter Scam” refers to a type of fraud in which the crook offers to help the victim receive a large sum of money in exchange for an upfront payment for taxes, legal fees or bribes to ...

WASHINGTON - Americans lost a record amount of money to Internet fraud last year, with the infamous Nigerian scam nabbing the largest sums from individuals, according to new federal crime statistics.

Apparently, we’ve cracked the Nigerian prince code and cons promising us romance. Swindlers have now moved on with phony dodges using the nation’s tollway system as an unwilling partner. Perhaps you ...

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April 28, 2006 &#151; -- 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BENTON, Ill. – A Nigerian national appeared ...