{"id":2213,"date":"2024-10-03T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/interpol-arrests-8-in-major-phishing-and-romance-fraud-crackdown-in-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:12:56","slug":"interpol-arrests-8-in-major-phishing-and-romance-fraud-crackdown-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/interpol-arrests-8-in-major-phishing-and-romance-fraud-crackdown-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bINTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud.<br \/>\nDubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said.<br \/>\nOne such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that resulted in financial losses to the tune\u00a0INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud.<br \/>\nDubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said.<br \/>\nOne such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that resulted in financial losses to the tune\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bINTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/interpol-arrests-8-in-major-phishing-and-romance-fraud-crackdown-in-west-africa\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}