Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, which raises the alarm, informed that 61 per cent of respondents from Nigeria faced phishing scams when using online banking or mobile wallet services. 67 per cent have personally encountered fake websites, and a staggering 82 per cent experienced scams (via texts or calls) using social engineering. When asked about awareness of threats against digital payment methods, majority of respondents from Nigeria said they are aware of both the financial phishing attacks (95 per cent) and online scams (97 per cent). On the survey methodology, the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey studies interactions with online payments. Kaspersky disclosed that the study was conducted by research agency Toluna across the Middle East, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2022 05:09 UTC