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PIG BUTCHERING: now the #1 loss category in the US by estimated volume / HUSHPUPPI: the Instagram that became the evidence -- Case 001 open / BEC: one spoofed email, one wire, seven figures -- see the methodology / ROSS ULBRICHT: full pardon January 21 2025 after 11+ years -- Case 013 open / ALL FIGURES LABELED: estimate vs conviction vs market collapse -- see Methodology / UNODC 2023: $5.4B estimated annually from SE Asia pig-butchering compounds [UNVERIFIED] / PIG BUTCHERING: now the #1 loss category in the US by estimated volume / HUSHPUPPI: the Instagram that became the evidence -- Case 001 open / BEC: one spoofed email, one wire, seven figures -- see the methodology / ROSS ULBRICHT: full pardon January 21 2025 after 11+ years -- Case 013 open / ALL FIGURES LABELED: estimate vs conviction vs market collapse -- see Methodology / UNODC 2023: $5.4B estimated annually from SE Asia pig-butchering compounds [UNVERIFIED]
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BENIN

Interpol flagged
CAPITAL Porto-Novo (official); Cotonou (seat of government) · POPULATION 14.1M (2023, UN)
FRAUD TYPES
BEC, romance scams, advance fee fraud
KEY FACTS
Part of West Africa cybercrime belt. Named alongside Nigeria/Ghana/Côte d'Ivoire by Interpol.
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BORN HERE▸
Nobody in our case files was born in Benin yet.
OPERATED HERE▸
Nobody in our case files is documented as operating from Benin yet.
KNOWN FOR▸
Online romance and advance-fee scamsMobile-money fraudCross-border cyber-fraud
THE PICTURE▸

Benin has taken part in INTERPOL's two Africa-wide operations against online fraud: Operation Red Card (Nov 2024–Feb 2025), which targeted cross-border scams, and Red Card 2.0 (Dec 2025–Jan 2026), which targeted investment, mobile-money and loan-app fraud (INTERPOL, 2025–2026). INTERPOL did not publish Benin-specific arrest figures for those operations. Benin is a party to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (Wikipedia, 2026). We did not find an official by-type fraud breakdown or a well-documented court case in this research pass.

TOP FRAUDSTERS FROM HERE▸
No individual case from here is documented well enough to publish yet.
FRAUD BY CATEGORY▸
No official body here publishes a breakdown of fraud by type, so we show none rather than guess.
KEY NUMBERS▸
306 Arrests across seven countries, including Benin, in INTERPOL Operation Red Card (INTERPOL, 24 Mar 2025)
WHO FIGHTS IT▸
Digital Code (Law No. 2017-20) covers cybercrime. The police Office central de répression de la cybercriminalité (OCRC) handles cyber-fraud.
Benin is a party to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime.
It took part in INTERPOL Operations Red Card (2025) and Red Card 2.0 (2025–2026).
SOURCES▸
INTERPOL, 'More than 300 arrests as African countries clamp down on cyber threats' (Operation Red Card), 24 Mar 2025
INTERPOL, 'Major operation in Africa targeting online scams nets 651 arrests' (Operation Red Card 2.0), 18 Feb 2026
Wikipedia, 'Budapest Convention on Cybercrime' (list of parties as of May 2026)
UN population estimates (1 July 2023), via Wikipedia 'List of countries by population (United Nations)'
Case lists and figures compiled September 2026 from court records, regulators and major press; statuses change. Series reports above are fact-checked case files.
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