A report published by the Internet Crime Complaint Centre, which is a partnership between the United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Centre, in 2010, revealed that Nigeria ranks third among the list of top 10 sources of cybercrime in the world.
This translates to 8 per cent, behind the United States’ 65 per cent and United Kingdom’s 9.9 per cent.
The publication also ranks Nigeria as the first in the African region as the target and origin of malicious cyber activities.