Overview

• The Interpol-led sweep, conducted July 28 to August 11, 2025, targeted organized networks running online romance scams and sextortion schemes.
• Authorities seized about 1,235 electronic devices, alongside USB drives, SIM cards and forged documents, and took down 81 cybercrime infrastructures.
• Investigators linked the schemes to roughly 1,400 to 1,463 victims with nearly $2.8 million in reported losses.
• Country highlights included Ghana with 68 arrests, 835 devices seized, 108 victims identified and $450,000 in losses ($70,000 recovered), Senegal with 22 arrests and about $34,000 defrauded from roughly 120 victims, and Côte d’Ivoire with 24 arrests and 809 victims identified.
• Interpol cited intelligence support from Group-IB and Trend Micro and UK FCDO funding under the African Joint Operation against Cybercrime, with follow-up investigations continuing.