Nigeria may be making progress in tackling fraud in the fast-growing online gaming industry, but the country remains part of a continent that has become the world’s biggest hotspot for iGaming fraud as criminals increasingly deploy artificial intelligence and stolen identities to beat security systems.
That is the key finding of the Sumsub iGaming Fraud Report 2026, which showed that while fraud levels in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda declined towards the end of 2025, Africa still recorded the highest iGaming fraud rate globally in the first quarter of 2026, about 66 per cent higher than the global average.
The report suggests that Nigeria’s improving trend reflects growing investments in digital identity verification and fraud controls by operators. However, it also warns that no market is insulated because fraudsters are changing tactics faster than many
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