US data firm Kled AI has banned Nigeria from its platform after finding that roughly 95 percent of uploads from the country were fraudulent, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Kled AI, a US-based data marketplace that pays users for uploading photos and videos for AI training, has removed its app from Nigeria and imposed a nationwide IP ban after discovering staggering levels of fraud.
Founder Avi Patel, 22, revealed that approximately 95 percent of Nigerian activity was fraudulent, with users submitting black screens, duplicate files, and fake passports during verification.
“After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate,” Patel said, adding that comparable markets like Malaysia and the Philippines recorded under 10 percent fraud across far larger user bases.
The platform reportedly paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars before the abuse became unsustainable. Patel described the ban as temporary pending stronger detection tools