Kenyans are highly likely to lose money in online wash wash tendencies after it was ranked the country with the highest scams (also known as social engineering) and phishing. In the past three months, a total of 5,098,534 phishing attacks were recorded in Kenya compared to 4,578,216 that were detected in South Africa and 1,046,136 in Nigeria. Social engineering is often used online to lure unsuspecting Kenyans with questionable links and asking them to input their personal information. In Africa, the company announced that it had detected 10,722,886 phishing attacks in quarter 2 alone. Kenya has, for years, been a hub of online scams including in September 2021 when Kaspersky announced that the country recorded over 2 million phishing attacks in the first half of that year.

Source: Daily Nation August 03, 2022 07:57 UTC