[DJN]

The jury is still out on this one. Unless you can show some numbers, it's hard to see this as anything but a subjective extrapolation of the facts.

Nonetheless, Sift Science's claim is at best poorly worded because it gives armor to the false and unfair interpretation that the majority of regular Nigerians folks are fraudulent, which by itself begs the question.

[btilly]

I no longer have numbers. It was several years ago that I was working for a US-only company that decided to add a customer to customer piece, then got targeted by scammers. But we definitely rediscovered the fact that IPs from Nigeria were entirely scammers, and so were messages saying Nigeria. Oh, and "Western Union" was not a phrase you want to see and so on.

It was a black hole sink. And since it was at best marginal to that business, that piece eventually got shut down.