Coinbase joins law enforcement to combat West African scam networks

The exchange's intelligence team helped block over $415,000 in losses during a London-based operation targeting fraud rings in Ghana and Nigeria Coinbase spent a week in London doing something exchanges are rarely famous for: helping police catch people. The company joined Joint Disruption Week, an international operation that ran from October 6-9, 2026, aimed at transnational scam networks operating mainly out of West Africa. The targets were concentrated in Ghana and Nigeria. The goal was simple to state and hard to execute: find the money, freeze it, and get it back before it disappears. The results were substantial.