{"id":11848,"date":"2026-04-04T02:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/nigerian-romance-scammer-jailed-after-being-caught-out-by-fellow-fraudster\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:03:44","slug":"nigerian-romance-scammer-jailed-after-being-caught-out-by-fellow-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/nigerian-romance-scammer-jailed-after-being-caught-out-by-fellow-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian romance scammer jailed after being caught out by fellow fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Nigerian romance scammer jailed after being caught out by fellow fraudster<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A Nigerian fraudster spent years posing as a woman online, romancing unsuspecting American men out of their savings &#8211; until he accidentally tried the same trick on a fellow scammer, who told him to &#8220;learn how to do a clean job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recovered chat logs helped put him behind bars for 15 years.<\/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\/nigerian-romance-scammer-jailed\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian romance scammer jailed after being caught out by fellow fraudster A Nigerian fraudster spent years posing as a woman online, romancing unsuspecting American men out of their savings &#8211; until he accidentally tried the same trick on a fellow scammer, who told him to &#8220;learn how to do a clean job.&#8221; The recovered chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,164,417,1610,313],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-romance-baiting","category-romance-scam","category-scam","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848"}],"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=11848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}