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hustle kingdom en · NOUN
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(Africa, West) A location used by a gang as a base for carrying out online fraud such as phishing.
The tactics and scale of Hustle Kingdoms have been uncovered in an academic article authored by Dr Suleman Lazarus, a criminologist from the University of Portsmouth, who warns that "thousands" of graduates are being produced across the region of West Africa.
2025 September 27, “The 'Hustle Kingdoms' where Africans learn to scam: Young men from Ghana and Nigeria taught how to defraud elderly British women at crime school”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 12:Count one reads: “That you IKEMESIT EDET IK sometime in January 2024 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honorable court, being the occupier and a person concerned with the management of the premises situates and lying at No. 57 D-Line, Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo Akwa Ibom State, did knowingly permit the use of the entire aforesaid premises as a CYBERCRIME ACADEMY, also known as Hustle Kingdom (HK) where you recruited ten (10) young Nigerians between ages 16-25 and taught them cybercrime techniques for perpetrating cyber crimes to wit: hacking, impersonation, and obtaining money by false pretence (Advance Fee Fraud) and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 3 of the same Act.”
2024 April 20, Soni Daniels, “Judge jails Uyo Yahoo Yahoo ‘school’ owner”, in Vanguard, Lagos:Down a dusty alley in a car, young men cast off their true identities as they enter this apartment. They call it their hustle kingdom. Meet Ghana's Yahoo boys, online fraudsters who swindle Americans out of millions of dollars by luring them into romance scams.
2024 September 25, CBS Evening News, spoken by Debora Patta, New York, via CBS:Hustle Kingdom (HKs) These are apartments either rented or owned by the Chairman to accommodate a group of young men and women, with a constant supply of electricity and internet to conduct their business.
[2022, Davies Ugowe, “The normalization of fraud in Nigeria”, in African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, volume 5, number 5, →DOI, page 128:
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