Overview

• Operation Contender 3.0 ran July 28–August 11 across 14 countries, with 1,235 devices seized and 81 cybercrime infrastructures dismantled.
• Investigators identified about 1,463 victims with nearly $2.8 million in reported losses.
• Ghana reported 68 arrests, 835 devices seized and $450,000 in losses, with $70,000 recovered.
• Côte d’Ivoire police arrested 24 suspects linked to sextortion and flagged 809 victims; Senegal made 22 arrests tied to celebrity-impersonation scams defrauding roughly $34,000.
• Interpol cited support from Group-IB and Trend Micro, with funding from the UK FCDO under the African Joint Operation against Cybercrime project.