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Academics Stand Against Poverty

Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998).  Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.  Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.

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A Stroke of the Keyboard and Click of the Mouse: an anatomy of cyber frauds as a growing component of illicit financial flows

Advances in digital technology have seen Nigerian conmen migrate their schemes to the cyber domain. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic these fraudsters have intensified their cyber attacks on vulnerable victims ac…

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  • Erhieyov O’Kenny

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Advances in digital technology have seen Nigerian conmen migrate their schemes to the cyber domain. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic these fraudsters have intensified their cyber attacks on vulnerable victims across the world. Through scams such as phony contracts, internet romance deception, and Business Email Compromise, Nigeria’s cyber criminals make billions of dollars every year at the cost of individuals and corporations. With the enactment of anti-cybercrime laws, the Nigerian government hopes to stem the tide of these practices. The Central Bank of Nigeria, for its part, has issued risk-based cyber security guidelines to financial institutions to enable them better to protect their computer systems and networks from external infiltration. At the international level, law enforcement agencies in the U.A.E have taken steps to track Nigerian cybercriminals operating from their territory, while the FBI has ramped up investigation of cases affecting the U.S. The author recommends that individuals and corporations put locks on their SIM cards and mobile devices, activate two-tier authentication for email and social media accounts, and routinely update their computer devices and software, to enhance their cyber security.

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Nigerian Cyber FraudstersAdvance Fee Fraud419Business Email CompromiseCybercrime Techniques

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