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"This time, in a multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone you see is fake." Deepfake Scam A multinational company was scammed out of $25.6 million by hackers who fooled employees at the company's Hong Kong branch into believing their digital recreation of its chief financial ...

MARTINEZ — The suspect in a Bay Point homicide has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison as part of a plea deal that required the dismissal of his murder charge, court records show.Donald Robbins, 64, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 62-year-old Marty ...

Two Oakland residents were arrested this week in connection with a shooting and attempted catalytic converter theft nearly two years ago in South San Francisco, police said. The incident happened on Bay Court around 4:25 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2022, according to the South San Francisco Police Department. ...

David Nwamini, the potential kidney donor involved in the organ trafficking case that led to the conviction of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has revealed that he wanted to remain and work in the UK as he feared for his safety in Nigeria.In his impact statement, read out in court during the sentencing ...

According to the local coroner, a man in Georgia shot and killed two of his relatives and a fast food worker before committing suicide in rural south Georgia on Thursday. The Colquitt County Coroner, C. Verlyn Brock, told The Associated Press that the shooter killed his mother and grandmother in ...

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested 34 suspected internet fraudsters in Oghara, Delta State.Suspected internet fraudstersIn a statement released by the commission, the suspects were identified as Ese ...

Some Nigerians stormed the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) today to demand the resignation and arrest of CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele over the failed new naira notes policy. The protesters, wielding placards, were sighted on the premises of the apex bank, and noted that Emefiele ...

Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Okey Wali, who was abducted on April 17, 2023, has been released by his captors, as reported by the Punch Newspaper. Wali, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was kidnapped at Obiri-Kwere junction on the East-West Road in Port Harcourt, ...

During a robbery in Zimbabwe, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: "Don't move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you." Everyone in the bank lay down quietly. This is called the "Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking.When a lady lay on ...

South Korea has said it would seek the extradition of fugitive crypto entrepreneur, Do Kwon, following the Terraform founder’s arrest in Montenegro and immediate slamming of fraud charges by United States.Prosecutors made this known to AFP on Friday. Kwon, whose full name is Kwon Do-hyung, has ...

Gunmen on Thursday afternoon killed a customary court judge, Nnaemeka Ugboma, in Imo State.Until his death, Ugboma presided over an Imo magistrate court in Ejemekwurun, Oguta Local Government Area of the the state.Our correspondent gathered that the killer who came on motorcycles, invaded the ...

Black society and drugs The illegal use of drugs has been a problem in the black community for many years. Drugs such as crack cocaine and heroin have wreaked havoc on black neighborhoods, causing high rates of crime and violence. Drug addiction has also led to joblessness and poverty, as well as ...

ICPC Arrests Woman Offering New Naira Notes for SaleICPC as of yesterday, 1st of February 2023, arrested a woman, Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with the Twitter handle of Lala, offering new naira notes for sale on social media.The arrest was as a result of intelligence received which led the ...

A 49-year-old, Lawrence Itakpe, has been arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly killing his wife, Rebecca, at their house in the Ajah area of the state.Our correspondent gathered that the suspect and the deceased, who were married for 11 years with two kids, had an ...

John C. AzuA Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has stopped the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, from arresting and detaining the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over alleged terrorism.  ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba says the police has devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election days with tonnes of cash for vote buying.Baba stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the ...

By Samuel Bolaji  The United States Attorney’s Office for Central District of California, Los Angeles, has confirmed that Internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, will be sentenced on September 21, 2022.This was disclosed to Channels Television via email by the court’s ...

The Cybercrime Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, submitted reports of forensic investigations led by Whyte Dein to corroborate their case against singer Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley, charged with credit card fraud before the Ikoyi Federal High ...

The suspectsDeji LamboThe Police Special Fraud Unit in Lagos State on Wednesday said it arrested three suspects for allegedly attempting cyberattacks on 10 banks in the state. The spokesperson for the unit, SP Eyitayo Johnson, in a statement, said the Commissioner of Police, ...