{"id":226,"date":"2015-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/the-card-aiming-to-end-nigerias-fraud-problem\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:05:58","slug":"the-card-aiming-to-end-nigerias-fraud-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/the-card-aiming-to-end-nigerias-fraud-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The card aiming to end Nigeria\u2019s fraud problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has a bad reputation when it comes to fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Friend\u201d emails originating from the country \u2013 also known as 419 scams \u2013 are among the most notorious in the world, with statistics from Ultrascan AGI suggesting losses from such schemes totalled $12.7bn (\u00a38.2bn) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>And the number of scams is growing by 5% each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria certainly has a problem,\u201d says Cormac Herley, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, who has looked in detail at 419 scams.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-31438226\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria has a bad reputation when it comes to fraud. \u201cDear Friend\u201d emails originating from the country \u2013 also known as 419 scams \u2013 are among the most notorious in the world, with statistics from Ultrascan AGI suggesting losses from such schemes totalled $12.7bn (\u00a38.2bn) in 2013. And the number of scams is growing by [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","region-west-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}