{"id":66056,"date":"2025-05-20T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66056"},"modified":"2025-05-20T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:39:11","slug":"efcc-storms-lagos-nabs-120-for-internet-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/20\/efcc-storms-lagos-nabs-120-for-internet-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Storms Lagos, Nabs 120 for Internet Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a sweeping crackdown on cybercrime, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 120 suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include 95 men and 25 women. According to the commission, the arrests followed credible intelligence and days of covert surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Items recovered during the raid include exotic vehicles, mobile phones, and laptops, all believed to be proceeds of online fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft agency stated that investigations are ongoing and the suspects will be arraigned in court upon conclusion of preliminary findings.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC reaffirmed its resolve to confront cybercrime and other financial offenses head-on, vowing not to relent in its mission to cleanse the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke In a sweeping crackdown on cybercrime, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 120 suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos. The suspects include 95 men and 25 women. According to the commission, the arrests followed credible intelligence and days of covert surveillance. Items recovered during the raid include exotic vehicles, mobile phones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66058,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66056\/revisions\/66058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}