ACCORDING to INTERPOL, Operation Red Card 2.0 arrested 651 individuals and recovered more than $4.3 million in a multinational African crackdown on online scams. The eight‑week operation ran from 8 December 2025 to 30 January 2026 and targeted high‑yield investment scams, mobile money fraud, and fraudulent mobile loan applications, under the African Joint Operation against Cybercrime (AFJOC).
Nations taking part included Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. INTERPOL said investigations exposed scams linked to over USD 45 million in financial losses and identified 1,247 victims. Authorities also confiscated 2,341 devices and took down 1,442 malicious IPs, domains, and servers, as part of the wider effort.
The report notes the operation followed a first wave announced almost a year earlier, which arrested 306 suspects and seized 1,842 devices between November 2024 and February 2025.