17 victims of human trafficking tied to QNet have been rescued in Lagos, Nigeria.

As reported by The Guardian Nigeria on March 13th;

The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has uncovered a camp allegedly linked to human trafficking, fraudulent network marketing, extortion and unlawful detention in the Torikoh area of Badagry, Lagos State.

The modus operandi behind the camp was typical of QNet recruitment across Africa. Prospective recruits were lured in on the promised employment and then trafficked through Toga to Nigeria.

Once locked up, the new recruits are put to work recruiting new QNet victims. QNet for it’s part does nothing to cut off money made from human trafficking across Africa.

Preliminary investigations, according to the commandant, revealed that intending members of the scheme were allegedly required to pay 650,000 CFA as a registration fee before joining the business.

Press-releases put out by the QNet instead usually claim rogue promoters are behind the fraud, ignoring the underlying financial motivation QNet recruitment provides.

To that end, this particular Nigerian ring of QNet scammers was busted after one of their victims managed to tip off police.

Lagos State Commandant, Mr Adedotun Keshinro said the victim alleged that upon arriving in Nigeria, he was compelled to register for the Internet marketing scheme and was subsequently extorted by its operators, who failed to fulfil their promises.

He added that the victim further alleged that the operators forcefully collected and sold his mobile phone and power bank, destroyed his SIM cards and handed him N10,000 for feeding while he sought funds to register for the business scheme.

Four arrests have been made, with NSCDC reporting the suspects attempted to bribe its operatives. The bribes were instead confiscated and admitted as evidence.

Other items recovered included an HP laptop, files, QNET letterheaded papers, leather bags, phones and pharmaceutical items allegedly used on victims.

While historically most of the QNet human trafficking in Africa has taken place in Ghana, in early 2025 Nigerian authorities arrested twenty-eight QNet promoter scammers.

QNet is an MLM pyramid scheme run out of Malaysia by founder Vijay Eswaran (right).

As of April 2026, SimilarWeb was tracking ~247,000 monthly QNet website visits.

Top sources of QNet website traffic over the same period were India (15%), Thailand (12%) and Brazil (8%).

Despite consumers being scammed through QNet since 1998, Malaysian authorities have failed to take action against Eswaran.