Interpol Clamps Down on Cybercrime and Arrests Over 1,000 Suspects in Africa (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/1831232/interpol-clamps-down-on-cybercrime-and-arrests-over-1000-suspects-in-africa
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/interpol-cybercrime-africa-afripol-fraud-serengeti-trafficking-208111329edd3a1a64faf85cc7c0d2c0
> Operation Serengeti, a joint operation with Afripol, the African Union's police agency, ran from Sept. 2 to Oct. 31 in 19 African countries and targeted criminals behind ransomware, business email compromise, digital extortion and online scams, the agency said in a statement.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/interpol-cybercrime-africa-afripol-fraud-serengeti-trafficking-208111329edd3a1a64faf85cc7c0d2c0
Interpol cannot arrest anyone (Score:2)
Interpol cannot arrest anyone [1]https://rednoticelawyers.com/blog/can-interpol-make-arrests/ [rednoticelawyers.com]. These arrests occurred by local police in coordination with Interpol. In fairness to Slashdot, the article the summary is based on also gets this wrong.
[1] https://rednoticelawyers.com/blog/can-interpol-make-arrests/
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Fair enough. Pedantically true, I guess. Similarly: people don’t kill people, guns kill people.
No they didn't (Score:3)
Interpol is not a police agency. They have no jurisdiction or law enforcement capabilities. They are a broker of collaboration and data sharing between police agencies.
Interpol likely provided information to the South African Government, which allowed them to make the arrests.
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No, they gave 'em the clamps, see?
but did they find Nigerian king/prince? (Score:2)
I keep sending checks and no reward so far ;-)
How about arresting ... (Score:2)
The thousands of managers & solicitors who work for first world companies - who deceive their customers, over charge them, abuse their data -- by using incomprehensible terms & conditions and web sites that make it hard to opt out of what the company wants to keep you signed up to. Also many other similar things -- you get the idea.
Only 1,006? (Score:2)
1,006? That's not much more than the ones who've tried to con me...
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Should be 1024 since this is cyber-crime. If one is going to arbitrarily go after some number it should at least some sense.