Comprendre les mécanismes qui régissent le recrutement dans ces académies ne revient pas à justifier la fraude. C'est une condition préalable à son démantèlement.
- Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Understanding what drives recruitment into these academies is not a defence of fraud. It is a precondition for dismantling it.
Intra-African trafficking, particularly through digital deception and aspirational manipulation, remains largely invisible.
Some Afrobeats songs use moral language that softens and normalises cybercrime.
Some website developers in Cameroon assist fraudsters but distance themselves from the crime.
Romance fraud is a popular crime in Ghana and Nigeria.
Digital immersion has many benefits – and plenty of pitfalls, too.
Le Ghana et le Nigeria accueillent des écoles de formation à l'escroquerie en ligne.
And why we need to rethink the way we report on this type of fraud.
Ghana and Nigeria are hosts of training schools for online scams.
Twitter users’ responses suggest that southern Yahoo boys are more criminalised by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission than their northern counterparts. We explain why.
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