{"id":10485,"date":"2026-02-08T02:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/fake-dubai-crown-prince-tracked-to-nigerian-mansion-after-2-5m-romance-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:03:35","slug":"fake-dubai-crown-prince-tracked-to-nigerian-mansion-after-2-5m-romance-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/fake-dubai-crown-prince-tracked-to-nigerian-mansion-after-2-5m-romance-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Dubai Crown Prince tracked to Nigerian mansion after $2.5M romance scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake Dubai Crown Prince tracked to Nigerian mansion after $2.5M romance scam<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>When a Romanian businesswoman fell for a fake Dubai Crown Prince in a $2.5 million romance scam, investigators tracked the fraudster to his Nigerian mansion &#8211; only to discover he was masquerading as a campaigning philanthropist.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/fake-dubai-crown-prince-tracked-to-nigerian-mansion-after-2-5m-romance-scam\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Dubai Crown Prince tracked to Nigerian mansion after $2.5M romance scam When a Romanian businesswoman fell for a fake Dubai Crown Prince in a $2.5 million romance scam, investigators tracked the fraudster to his Nigerian mansion &#8211; only to discover he was masquerading as a campaigning philanthropist. Read more in my article on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,164,1148,1610,313],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-nigeria","category-romance-scam","category-scam","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}