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6 Nigerians extradited to US for $6M romance scam targeting women

6 Nigerians extradited to US for $6M romance scam targeting women

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September 11th, 2026

6 Nigerians extradited to US for $6M romance scam targeting women

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

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ํ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 arrested in Cape Town, South Africa, 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…„ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด์—์„œ ์ฒดํฌ๋œ ์ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ FBI ์š”์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์‹  ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์ž๊ธˆ ์„ธํƒ ํ˜์˜๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์žฌํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

They are suspected of belonging to a criminal network known as Black Axe, which Interpol has described as part of a criminal organisation responsible for a substantial share of global cyber-enabled financial fraud, including romance scams, cryptocurrency fraud, and investment fraud.

์ด๋“ค์€ ์ธํ„ฐํด์ด ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ, ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ธˆ์œต ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ธ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ์•ก์Šค(Black Axe)๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ์†ํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

According to South African police, these men are accused of defrauding more than 100 women in the United States of over $6 million through online romance or dating scams.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด 100๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ๋˜๋Š” ์—ฐ์•  ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด 600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํŽธ์ทจํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Among the victims were pensioners and businesspeople, who are said to have been targeted through elaborate online relationships.

ํ”ผํ•ด์ž ์ค‘์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๋ น์ž์™€ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ‘œ์ ์ด ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค.

Police spokesperson Katlego Mogale stated, "Through the mediation of Interpol's South African office, these six individuals will today be transferred from 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™”๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์˜ ์ค‘์žฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋“ค 6๋ช…์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด ๊ต๋„์†Œ์—์„œ ์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด ๊ตญ์ œ๊ณตํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์†ก๋˜์–ด, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ FBI์™€ ๋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 people and identified 263 suspects linked to various criminal networks involved in similar crimes.

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

The operation aimed to curb money laundering, identify high-value targets, seize assets, and support arrests and prosecutions.

์ด ์ž‘์ „์€ ์ž๊ธˆ ์„ธํƒ์„ ์ €์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ํ‘œ์ ์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์••๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฒดํฌ์™€ ๊ธฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜๋‹ค.

South African authorities raided seven locations in Johannesburg linked to a syndicate that had been targeting retirees in English-speaking countries with romance and investment scams.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์˜์–ด๊ถŒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์€ํ‡ด์ž๋“ค์„ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ์—ฌ ์˜จ ์‹ ๋””์ผ€์ดํŠธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์š”ํ•˜๋„ค์Šค๋ฒ„๊ทธ ๋‚ด 7๊ฐœ ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ธ‰์Šตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Interpol, in this operation in South Africa, police arrested 39 people, seized 2.67 million dollars, and froze more than 250 bank accounts.

์ธํ„ฐํด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ์ด ์ž‘์ „์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ 39๋ช…์„ ์ฒดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  267๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์••์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ 250๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์€ํ–‰ ๊ณ„์ขŒ๋ฅผ ๋™๊ฒฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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