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6 Nigerians Extradited to US for $6M Romance Fraud Targeting Women

6 Nigerians Extradited to US for $6M Romance Fraud Targeting Women

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September 11th, 2026

6 Nigerians Extradited to US for $6M Romance Fraud Targeting Women

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South African police announced that six Nigerian nationals, implicated in an organized crime network accused of defrauding American women of more than $6 million through online romance scams, are scheduled to be extradited to the United States on Friday.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํŽธ์ทจํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ์—ฐ๋ฃจ๋œ ๋‚˜์ด์ง€๋ฆฌ์•„ ๊ตญ์ ์ž 6๋ช…์ด ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๋„๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

These men, who were apprehended in Cape Town in 2021, were handed over to FBI agents on Friday and are set to stand trial in the United States on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

2021๋…„ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด์—์„œ ์ฒดํฌ๋œ ์ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ FBI ์š”์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๋ณ‘์ด ์ธ๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์‹  ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์ž๊ธˆ ์„ธํƒ ํ˜์˜๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์žฌํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

They are suspected of belonging to a criminal network designated Black Axe, which Interpol identifies as a criminal organization responsible for a substantial share of global cyber-enabled financial fraud, perpetrated through romance scams, cryptocurrency schemes, and investment fraud.

์ด๋“ค์€ ์ธํ„ฐํด์ด ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ์Šค์บ , ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ธˆ์œต ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์ผ์›์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋ชฉํ•˜๋Š”, ๋ธ”๋ž™ ์•ก์Šค(Black Axe)๋กœ ๋ช…๋ช…๋œ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ์†Œ์†๋œ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to a statement released by the South African police, the men stand accused of defrauding more than 100 women across the United States of over $6 million by employing online romance or dating scam tactics.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์˜ 100๋ช…์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ๋‚ด์ง€ ์—ฐ์•  ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฒ•์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ 600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํŽธ์ทจํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The roster of victims encompassed pensioners and entrepreneurs, who were reportedly targeted through the conduit of an intricately constructed online network.

ํ”ผํ•ด์ž ๋ช…๋‹จ์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๋ น์ž์™€ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ •๊ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ง์„ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ํ‘œ์ ํ™”๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

Police spokesperson Katlego Mogale stated, "Through coordination via Interpol South Africa, these six individuals are scheduled to be transferred today from a Cape Town prison to Cape Town International Airport, where they will be handed over to FBI and U.S. Secret Service agents who arrived in South Africa this morning."

๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ์นดํ‹€๋ ˆ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๊ฐˆ๋ ˆ๋Š” "์ธํ„ฐํด ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์กฐ์ •์„ ๊ฒฝ์œ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด 6๋ช…์€ ๊ธˆ์ผ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด์˜ ๊ต๋„์†Œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์†ก๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธˆ์ผ ์•„์นจ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ FBI ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋น„๋ฐ€๊ฒฝํ˜ธ๊ตญ ์š”์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ณ„๋  ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Interpol, the multinational police organization, announced that in a recent operation last month targeting organized crime groups in West Africa, it arrested 58 individuals and identified 263 suspects linked to various criminal networks implicated in similar offenses.

๋‹ค๊ตญ์  ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์ธ ์ธํ„ฐํด์€ ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ์„œ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ์กฐ์ง ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ž‘์ „์—์„œ 58๋ช…์„ ์ฒดํฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์— ์—ฐ๋ฃจ๋œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ 263๋ช…์˜ ์šฉ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

The objectives of this operation were to disrupt money laundering, identify high-value targets, seize assets, and support arrests and prosecutions.

๋ณธ ์ž‘์ „์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ž๊ธˆ ์„ธํƒ์„ ์ €์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ํ‘œ์ ์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์••๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฒดํฌ์™€ ๊ธฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

South African authorities conducted raids on seven locations in Johannesburg linked to a syndicate that had been perpetrating romance and investment fraud by targeting retirees from English-speaking countries.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์˜์–ด๊ถŒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹  ์€ํ‡ด์ž๋“ค์„ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์žํ–‰ํ•ด ์˜จ ์‹ ๋””์ผ€์ดํŠธ์™€ ์—ฐ๋ฃจ๋œ ์š”ํ•˜๋„ค์Šค๋ฒ„๊ทธ ์†Œ์žฌ 7๊ฐœ ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธ‰์Šต์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to a report by Interpol, in the operation conducted in South Africa, the police authorities arrested 39 suspects, seized assets worth 2.67 million dollars, and took measures to freeze more than 250 bank accounts.

์ธํ„ฐํด์˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์— ์˜๊ฑฐํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฐํ–‰๋œ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž‘์ „์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ 39๋ช…์˜ ์šฉ์˜์ž๋ฅผ ์ฒดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  267๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒ๋‹น์„ ์••์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ, 250๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์€ํ–‰ ๊ณ„์ขŒ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

September 11th, 2026

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