Nigeria Cracks Down on Cyber Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, reported 800 fraud emailers have been deactivated. Additionally, members of 18 cyber crime syndicates have been arrested.

EFCC has been working with Microsoft to help track down the cyber criminals. Police units have moved to a greater reliance on technology to catch fraudsters, replacing the practice of raiding cyber cafes. Many of the email scammers use Internet…