PalmPay, a financial platform with over 30 million users on its smartphone app in Nigeria, has announced the launch of its USSD code. The service offers Nigerians an additional way to manage their finances without [c]
Days after it dropped three new Originals in Kenya, African streamer Showmax has completed the integration of M-Pesa onto its recently re-launched platform, allowing customers the ease and convenience of engaging with the popular payment [c]
Amidst the ongoing turbulent economic times, the imperative of a robust savings culture continues to be very apparent. Businesses and companies worldwide are reassessing their expenditures, with job cuts and furloughs looming large. Indeed, according [c]
An INTERPOL crackdown on West African organized crime has seen bank accounts frozen, suspects arrested, and financial investigations triggered worldwide. Between 15 and 29 May, Operation Jackal mobilised police forces, financial crime units and cybercrime [c]
Sophos, a global leader in innovation and delivery of cybersecurity-as-a-service, has released new findings on CryptoRom scams – a subset of pig butchering [shā zhū pán] schemes designed to trick users of dating apps into [c]
Blockchain technology company, GoldPesa has opened its doors to its blockchain academy to bridge the knowledge gap and demystify existing myths in blockchain-related digital assets and web 3. Equipped with its latest blockchain curriculum and [c]
INTERPOL’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) has launched a global awareness campaign to highlight the massive use of money mules in facilitating the movement of criminal proceeds. Money mules are people recruited by criminals, [c]
“The CryptoRom scam is romance-centered financial fraud that relies heavily on social engineering at almost every stage,” said Jagadeesh Chandraiah, senior threat researcher at Sophos. “The scammers attract targets through fake profiles on legitimate dating [c]
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