{"id":40944,"date":"2023-03-09T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/03\/09\/mafia-africa-a-deep-dive-into-nigerian-organised-crime-in-france\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:00:25","slug":"mafia-africa-a-deep-dive-into-nigerian-organised-crime-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/03\/09\/mafia-africa-a-deep-dive-into-nigerian-organised-crime-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Mafia Africa&rsquo;: A deep dive into Nigerian organised crime in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigerian crime is synonymous with cyber crime, and variants of the original so-called 419 scam. These are emails where the suspect claims to be a prince or princess without access to their riches, and promise to share their windfall if we help them out financially. The victim&rsquo;s bank account is then emptied and the suspect is never heard from again. Our guest is a journalist who has spent years uncovering the massive scale of a Nigerian mafia that dominates parts of Marseille and is globally connected. A new book called \u00ab\u00a0Mafia Africa\u00a0\u00bb is the work of C\u00e9lia Lebur from French news agency Agence France-Presse and Joan Tilouine, the head of investigations at Africa Intelligence. C\u00e9lia spoke to FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Gavin Lee about the book.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian crime is synonymous with cyber crime, and variants of the original so-called 419 scam. These are emails where the suspect claims to be a prince or princess without access to their riches, and promise to share their windfall if we help them out financially. The victim&rsquo;s bank account is then emptied and the suspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-40944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}