SA-US CYBERCRIME: Million-dollar hacker who targeted US businesses from SA jailed in America, faces deportation

2026-03-23 - 19:00

Using the aliases ‘Ghost’ and ‘Old Soldier’, a swindler from Nigeria stayed in South Africa while targeting Americans through hacking into emails and requesting payments. Now, James Junior Aliyu faces more than seven years in a US jail and deportation, possibly back to Nigeria.