Coinbase joined London's Joint Disruption Week, helping block over $415,000 in losses as authorities targeted scam networks in Ghana and Nigeria.
Meta removed over 3.7 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to West African scams, as a crackdown led to 28 arrests ...
Ghanaian authorities arrested 19 people in Sasaabi, near Accra, and seized 303 electronic devices. Investigators identified ...
A Coinbase scam stole roughly $15.94M from about 100 users before Ronald Spektor was sentenced in New York to 4 to 12 years in prison.
The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.
Meta removed more than 3.7 million accounts, pages and groups from Facebook and Instagram in a global crackdown on West African scam networks, with 28 arrests and 117 victims rescued.
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