Overview
- Law enforcement and industry partners met in London from Oct. 6–9 and then carried out coordinated cross‑border actions that led to roughly 28–30 arrests in Ghana and Nigeria.
- Private sector firms including Meta, Coinbase, Google and Microsoft removed or disabled about 3.7 million social accounts and helped trace roughly $11 million in potentially freezable funds.
- Police raids in Ghana’s Sasaabi and Nigeria’s Delta state produced the seizure of hundreds of electronic devices and the identification of about 117 people believed to be victims of trafficking who are set for repatriation.
- Authorities said the operation targeted a range of schemes—fake crypto investments, law‑enforcement impersonation, staged video‑arrest extortion, romance fraud and sextortion—and produced more than 30 investigative leads for follow‑on prosecutions.
- Officials framed the effort as part of a sustained, repeatable disruption strategy that pairs real‑time industry intelligence with cross‑border raids to overcome challenges in freezing assets and prosecuting transnational scam networks.