{"id":231675,"date":"2026-02-20T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/police-arrests-651-suspects-in-african-cybercrime-crackdown"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:20:13","slug":"police-arrests-651-suspects-in-african-cybercrime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/police-arrests-651-suspects-in-african-cybercrime-crackdown","title":{"rendered":"Police arrests 651 suspects in African cybercrime crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/police-arrests-651-suspects-in-african-cybercrime-crackdown.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>African law enforcement agencies arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million in a joint operation targeting investment fraud, mobile money scams, and fake loan applications.<\/p>\n<p>As INTERPOL revealed on Wednesday, Operation Red Card 2.0 identified 1,247 victims between December 8 and January 30 while targeting cybercrime operations linked to over $45 million in financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities across 16 countries also seized 2,341 devices and took down 1,442 malicious websites, domains, and servers during this joint action coordinated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/Crimes\/Cybercrime\/Projects\/AFJOC-African-Joint-Operation-against-Cybercrime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African Joint Operation against Cybercrime (AFJOC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African law enforcement agencies arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million in a joint operation targeting investment fraud, mobile money scams, and fake loan applications. As INTERPOL revealed on Wednesday, Operation Red Card 2.0 identified 1,247 victims between December 8 and January 30 while targeting cybercrime operations linked to over $45 million in financial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}