00:00There's money in it. There's no help to not get the money. There's money.
00:04A lot of people have fallen victims. Some of my family members, some of my friends.
00:08I'm not proud of it.
00:14Listen up, guys. We have to fundamentally change the way we think about scammers and how we deal with scams.
00:21Today's victims are everyday people like you and me across the African continent and beyond.
00:27Well, this guy said I should send my full details of my account. I said, no, maybe this is a scam.
00:33The moment I told him that it's a scam, he said that it was sorting me and costing me.
00:37But who really is behind all these scams? And are we doing enough to stop these scammers?
00:43Or must we demand more action from our governments?
00:46And especially the international syndicates know that there's very little chance of any African country prosecuting them in their own home country.
00:52So therefore, it's an easy target.
00:54What was that? International syndicates? Let's dive right into that one.
01:00Welcome to the flip side.
01:02So get this. Nigeria just deported 200 foreign nationals from China and the Philippines who were accused of defrauding people on the internet.
01:11But what were they doing there in the first place?
01:13We see some nation-state funding taking place in the East and countries like Russia.
01:17The Russians are hackers. So we got those critical from them, either through their sites or through such chatting.
01:27So now the Chinese involvement, which is now a new trend, and even setting up schools to train these young ones on how to engage in the internet project, just started recently.
01:37China? Philippines? Russia?
01:39China? This is some scary and equally intriguing stuff straight out of a James Bond movie.
01:46But other than deporting foreign actors, are our governments doing enough?
01:51What we need is better cross-border collaboration. We need better funding.
01:55We need improved education of both the end users and everybody else in the value chain.
01:59So let me try and get this right. There isn't enough money to stop the casual stealing of money via scamming operations, even though potentially hostile foreign governments are increasingly becoming a part of these scamming operations.
02:18A lot of what we generally look or will identify as petty crime are not so petty at all.
02:25It's part of an almost industrialized effort by larger syndicates to focus on gaining small advantages over a broader spectrum of victims.
02:35And ultimately that then is used to fund other criminal and even terrorist activities.
02:40In fact, terror groups like Al-Shabaab are known for laundering a great deal of their funds through the African scamming industry.
02:47So from that perspective, can our governments truly afford not to invest more into stopping scammers, especially knowing that both the scammers and their victims are their own citizens?
03:00Our concept is an absolute lack of progress and effort. It's just not keeping up with the scale and the increase in frequency of these attacks.
03:10So deporting foreign scammers is indeed a good start, but it's not enough.
03:14If we allow these scamming syndicates to settle, we will all become pawns in a game that is played out by global criminal networks at our own expense.
03:24And that is the flip side.
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