‘Romance’ Scams Targeting Americans: Nigerian ‘Air Lords’ Get Wings Clipped in South Africa

A record 2.7m online scams were taken down last year by the National Cyber Security Centre Dominic Lipinski/PA

JOHANNESBURG—It is springtime dawn in Equestria, a far-eastern suburb of Pretoria, South Africa’s capital. A heatwave’s scalding the area, with a temperature well over 80F—even though it’s only 5.30 a.m. It is weather more characteristic of midsummer. 

And things are about to get hotter.