Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders

Adebayo Benedict Soares Suleman Lazarus a Legal and Prosecution Department, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja, Nigeriab Centre of Excellence on Ageing (CEA), University of Surrey, Guildford, UKc Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UKd Department of Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South AfricaAdebayo Benedict Soares is a superintendent and senior prosecutor at Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He is a Certified Economic Crime Forensic Examiner (CECFE), Certified Cybercrime Investigator (CCCI), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He holds a Master of Science in Economic Crime and International Criminal Justice, as well as an Executive Diploma in Anti-Corruption and Diplomacy. Mr. Soares brings extensive expertise in investigating and prosecuting economic crimes. Mr. Soares has successfully investigated and prosecuted numerous financial crimes, including those involving international law enforcement agencies. He has secured convictions in cases of investment fraud, advance fee fraud, forgery, bank fraud, money laundering, corruption, and cybercrime and has been instrumental in asset recovery through civil forfeiture. Mr. Soares also regularly provides training and presentations on fraud, AML/CFT guidelines, corruption, and cybercrime to banks, government institutions, and youth groups.Suleman Lazarus holds a PhD from the University of Portsmouth and is an Associate Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal “Digital Threats: Research and Practice.” Dr Lazarus serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is a Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and the University of Surrey, UK. He created the “Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF),” categorising cybercrimes into socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical motivational groups. His scholarly works, primarily focusing on cybercriminals and society, have been featured in journals like “Telematics and Informatics,” “Deviant Behavior,” “Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking,” and “Current Issues in Criminal Justice.”

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