Meaning of hustle kingdom | Babel Free

Definitions

A location used by a gang as a base for carrying out online fraud such as phishing.

Africa, West

Examples

“Count⟳ one reads: “That you IKEMESIT EDET IK sometime in January 2024 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honorable court, being the occupier and a person concerned with the management of the premises situates and lying at No. 57 D-Line, Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo Akwa Ibom State, did knowingly permit⟳ the use⟳ of the entire aforesaid premises as a CYBERCRIME ACADEMY, also known as Hustle Kingdom (HK) where you recruited ten (10) young Nigerians between ages 16-25 and taught them cybercrime techniques for perpetrating cyber crimes to wit: hacking, impersonation, and obtaining money by false pretence (Advance Fee Fraud) and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 3 of the same Act.””

“Down a dusty alley in a car, young men cast⟳ off their true identities as they enter⟳ this apartment. They call⟳ it their hustle kingdom. Meet⟳ Ghana's Yahoo boys, online fraudsters who swindle Americans out of millions of dollars by luring them into romance scams.”

“The tactics and scale of Hustle Kingdoms have⟳ been uncovered in an academic article authored by Dr Suleman Lazarus, a criminologist from the University of Portsmouth, who warns that "thousands" of graduates are being produced across the region of West Africa.”

CEFR level