The Nigerian “blood cult” aims at lonely Australians with romantic scams

Anyakorah at the end would have declared himself guilty of managing $ 890,000, the proceeds of the crime, and was sentenced to four years in prison in March. Will be entitled to release in 2027.

The data seized by Anyakorah’s phones would reveal “a series of communications and connections to the Bucananeers Association of Nigeria”.

The cults of the campus are accused of horrible violence in Nigeria, while abroad they engage in drugs and deals with human beings. But most of their money comes through Cyberscams in the West.

“The organized crime groups of West Africa are based in a series of countries all over the world and rely on a network of networks, collaborators and facilitators to commit computer -based scams and moving the money they stole from countries, such as Australia, in their pockets,” said the AFP superintendent who acts Nuckhley Succar this Masthead.

In Australia, Anyakorah and his collaborators have found many objectives and an effective method.

The gang would have found e-mail that had been compromised, probably in the data violations, to send invoices with a legitimate appearance that directs payment to one of their stolen bank accounts.

In 2022, a 77 -year -old woman Townsville delivered $ 46,950 to a man he met online called “Robert”.

But Robert, his well -paid work on an oil platform and his desperate money problems were all false. Instead, it was a cyberscammer, with Anyakorah who provided bank details.

The woman’s money has never been recovered.

Two months later, a 56 -year -old woman in Perth went to “Richard” on another dating site.

Richard’s work on an oil system, his 3.5 million dollar contract and his money problems were also lies, but the woman delivered $ 174,000 in 23 payments to the band before realizing.

“I can’t explain how angry I am,” the woman wrote to Richard’s profile.

“I did everything and I feel as if I were (state) exploited. I have my life, my job and my health.”

In the meantime, in Brighton, Victoria, a woman paid $ 79,000 to an NAB account controlled by the bands after receiving an e-mail invoice from a BMW dealership for her new car in 2019.

He realized that the money had gone scammers when he came to pick up his new BMW and the staff of the dealership discovered that their and -mail had been compromised.

In August 2022, a company that provides medical alert technology with elderly patients paid $ 22,911 in a Melbourne bank account.

A mineral company paid $ 173,000 to an US bank account in January 2023.

A pastoral company, a law firm and family -run commercial activities throughout the new South Wales and Australia have made equally enormous payments, often over $ 100,000.

Most of the money would never be recovered.

Hematic cradle of Nigeria

Every few months, the administrative revision court, which determines the fate of the refugees, takes evidence of the Nigerians who claim to have fallen prey to the cults of the campus, including Bucaniers, a mafia of the black ax and pirates.

A Nigerian refugee in November 2023 told the court that she and her husband had to stay in Australia because, like Christians, they would have targeted if they returned home.

The woman told the court that her family had turned her back on a cult after witnessing a horrible ritual that involved her father’s corpse.

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“She returned to the east for the burial of her father and saw the horrors of this secret society during a ceremony in a sacred grove that involved spells and her mother who recovered her father’s head with a knife, who was put on a pole, and the devotees drank the blood that emptied him from the head”, wrote the AAT.

“(His wife) He claims to have discovered that taking part in any cleansing ritual would have involved the blood sacrifice of his husband and two of his children.”

Other refugees have claimed to be former members of the cult cults or that they have been pushed to join through physical beating and stalking. They often speak of mysterious diseases and curses.

“It was the people who orchestrated the death of my father; the cult continued to ask him for blood,” wrote a refugee in 2023.

“I continued to receive threat letters from the cult group of Ogboni with blood as a signature every time, and this is why my mother fled the village with us.”

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The barbaric attacks of cults often make news in Nigeria and the Australian government recognizes both their existence and the danger.

“Membership generally involves a violent initiation, which can include beating and rape”, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Commerce has written cults in its 2018 national report on Nigeria.

And the Interpol Jackal operation has collected hundreds of members of groups of cult criminals organized Nigerian in a global repression.