West African Scams Highlight the Region's Advances in Cyber-crime.

The article reports on advancements in cybercrimes such as business email compromise (BEC) in Nigeria by referring to an incident leading to stealing of payments according to the researchers at security service provider SecureWorks. Topics include hijacking of a deal between the U.S. customer and an Indian chemical company through email hacking by cyber-criminals, fraud scheme called as wire-wire and views of Joe Stewart, director at SecureWorks, on increasing social engineering.