The COVID-19 pandemic has been cause for alarm across the world in recent months – from disrupting global economies and international trade relations to perpetuating the largest work-from-home migration.
In the wake of this outbreak, fake news has wreaked havoc as people try to decipher what’s real and what’s fiction. Unsurprisingly, a number of fraudsters have used the current climate of confusion to capitalise off of unsuspecting Nigerians.
According to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a number of fraudulent websites have been spreading misinformation and using phishing tactics to gain traffic.
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