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Riding on WhatsApp, scam sites soar in wake of COVID-19

Troubling misinformation around COVID-19 and its vaccines hit Nigeria. The country also has to bother about cyber insecurity riding on the coattails of the pandemic.

In March 2021, an alum posted ...on her alumni WhatsApp group, “Hurry up and get N30,000 survival fund” along with a URL obscured by a link shortener.

Nigeria was at the start of lockdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A month later, another woman posted in the same WhatsApp group, “Apply for the COVID-19 relief fund provided by the Federal Government”.

Both women had simply forwarded the message as received, without verification.

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