"Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" - Crime (2)

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Offpoint1: 9:46am On Jul 31, 2025

Let me try out the site, I have some unfinished business with some scammers

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Exclusive101: 9:46am On Jul 31, 2025*

So it is sold only under this governmwnt n not under other govt ba

PlasmaTV:
Our private information is literally been sold for cents under this government. This is not the first time that people are calling out this thing, and absolutely nothing has been done.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by IamAtAnger: 9:47am On Jul 31, 2025

So you're one of them abi... after una go dey blame the leaders. How this country wan take better?

adamkkk:
these ones will just be spoiling people's business

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by NinjaMetahuman: 9:49am On Jul 31, 2025

This is why I never supported giving my details to incompetent Nigerian government to begin with.

The communication ministry is at all time low useless.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Dennisochampa: 9:50am On Jul 31, 2025

The best thing we can do is report such incidents to the police...
That's how we can begin to change the things we don't like....
The police can't be everywhere at the same time.... It's our duty to prevent things like these

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by emperor4love(m): 9:50am On Jul 31, 2025

adamkkk:
these ones will just be spoiling people's business

ppl bizness how,so u support such criminious act by the way dey guy is just letting Nigerians to know how eroded the system is

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by KaptainAfrika: 9:54am On Jul 31, 2025

Has anyone said that it is the same even in developed countries ? I have been seeing less and less of that excuse... grin

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Kingpele(m): 9:55am On Jul 31, 2025

This is not new ,we know that our government can never be able to secure our sensitive information or data ....

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Tunmise40: 9:55am On Jul 31, 2025

This is a frightening situation. Imagine personal informations as sensitive as these being available for sale

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Deepspirituals: 10:00am On Jul 31, 2025

What is the name of the Website

... What is the name of the Website

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by lexy2014: 10:06am On Jul 31, 2025

Inasmuch as FIJ is doing well in terms of investigative journalism, is this reporting not too detailed in terms of how these things are done?

has it exposed the exposed the fraudulent activity or it has ended up giving tools for fraudsters to use?

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Phabulous4(m): 10:12am On Jul 31, 2025

These people (govt) not only exploit all resources available in the country freely, they also tax us to the bones... See what we get in return!!!

A comment I read here was "God no let am reach my turn ooo".

God abeg, I dey behind that person! I am 2nd in line, minus 200million. (sarcasm)

Sa make I laugh abi make I dey cry!!!

TouchNfollow:
https://fij.ng/article/exclusive-nigerians-nins-bvns-photos-still-for-sale-online-i-bought-4-with-just-n560/

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by ganilas007: 10:12am On Jul 31, 2025

Even US details you can get them

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by flexyrule(m): 10:13am On Jul 31, 2025

PlasmaTV:
Our private information is ~~literally~~ been sold for cents under this government. This is not the first time that people are calling out this thing, and absolutely nothing has been done.

You people should allow this word to rest!

Kia!

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by enemyofprogress: 10:14am On Jul 31, 2025

Truly there was a country

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Goodlady(f): 10:16am On Jul 31, 2025

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

Even exclusive top-tier security software platforms of USA's Pentagon, Isreal's Mossad, Russia's FSB, Iran's IRGC, UK's MI6 have been hacked repeatedly back to back let alone our mass-based NIN database!

Ordinary kid even hacked the Pentagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rzcZWTIjo?si=qZOPJ7I7EDCMZ4FH

Stop destroying yourself with inferiority complex. The government has done some good work on it but nothing on the internet can't be hacked.

If you use codes to build it, others can use codes to hack it. That's why the Founder of Telegram doesn't have a single phone till date.
Government must keep updating and raising the security but it is impossible to make it 100% impossible to hack.

Why are you defending an avoidable mistake by NIMC & govt?
Will you be happy if someone put your private information in public?
Maybe you don't know. It's so difficult to support APC. Since 2015, Nigeria hasn't been the same. For the past 10 years people can't say this is the progress that has been made.

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Tabletuner(m): 10:18am On Jul 31, 2025

TouchNfollow:
https://fij.ng/article/exclusive-nigerians-nins-bvns-photos-still-for-sale-online-i-bought-4-with-just-n560/

WOW

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by DeOTR: 10:19am On Jul 31, 2025

TheStranger:
We don't even have firewalls to protect our data b

Firewalls? Does the writer even mention anything about cyber attacks? Oga, it's our agencies that gave these people access to their APIs. There's nothing like accidental here. If I design some endpoints, you must be authorized to access anyone of them.
People selling the data certainly have the API keys or access tokens they use to get the data or they get it from people who have official access to it.
Our financial institutions have an interface by which they interact with some of these agencies. They can investigate on that.

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by AngelicBeing: 10:22am On Jul 31, 2025

redcliff:
The country is a full crime scene

13 more characters needed

Chai, this is Deep ooooooo, like seriously, Nigeria classified by redcliff as a country full of CRIME SCENE shocked

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by LazyChef: 10:27am On Jul 31, 2025

This is a serious matter. Authorities concerned should look into it fast.
Innocent people shouldn't be allowed to suffer for what they know nothing about.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by gabbasin(m): 10:33am On Jul 31, 2025

The identity fraud being perpetuated by officials of nimc is mind boggling, one can request his/her record (bio metrics et al) be wiped off the database so that fresh enrolment can be done.

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by FreeStuffsNG: 10:36am On Jul 31, 2025

Goodlady:
Why are you defending an avoidable mistake by NIMC & govt?
Will you be happy if someone put your private information in public?
Maybe you don't know. It's so difficult to support APC. Since 2015, Nigeria hasn't been the same. For the past 10 years people can't say this is the progress that has been made.

If you and your ilk have not made progress for the past ten years then change your company, read great books, change your negative mindset and quit idle social media chatter life style.

NIN database protection can't help you lot.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Bigchris01(m): 10:39am On Jul 31, 2025

TouchNfollow:
https://fij.ng/article/exclusive-nigerians-nins-bvns-photos-still-for-sale-online-i-bought-4-with-just-n560/

Nigeria can’t have a unified data base system? After spending such billions it’s a shame tho

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by AngelSlay: 10:41am On Jul 31, 2025

PlasmaTV:
Our private information is literally been sold for cents under this government. This is not the first time that people are calling out this thing, and absolutely nothing has been done.

The money that has been budgeted for building databases and security has been swallowed by individuals. Millions of dollars fa.

Sometimes, I wonder why Nigeria is so corrupt. Almost every public individual has corruption entrenched. Sad

The Digital Puppet Strings – How the West is Using Social Media to Monitor and Control Nigerians

What if I told you that every time you log into Facebook, send a DM on Instagram, or tweet your frustrations on X (formerly Twitter), you're feeding a global surveillance machine carefully crafted not just to monitor—but manipulate?

Let’s go deeper…

🎯 The Theory:

1. The “Free App” Trap: Western intelligence agencies, working hand-in-hand with Big Tech, have created social media platforms that appear "free" but actually serve as data harvesting machines. Every post you like, every message you send, every photo you upload is analyzed by advanced AI. They know your interests, your fears, your political leanings—even your likely next move.

2. Digital Colonization via APIs: Through backdoors in app APIs and "agreements" with African governments, these companies have unfettered access to Nigeria’s digital bloodstream. Our national ID databases, SIM registration info, BVNs, and even NINs are slowly being funneled through compromised systems—some “accidentally” hosted on Western servers. Coincidence? Or part of a long game?

3. The Budget Laundering Loop: Here's the kicker—millions of dollars are budgeted for “digital infrastructure,” “data privacy,” and “cybersecurity.” But where does the money go? Into the pockets of elites who sign shady contracts with foreign firms. These firms, in turn, sell the same data they were supposed to protect back to intelligence networks and advertisers. It’s a loop. A digital laundering scheme dressed as progress.

4. The Silent Algorithmic Censorship: Ever notice how certain types of political content disappear faster than others? Or how whistleblowers in Nigeria suddenly get shadow-banned or "violated community guidelines"? That’s not random. It’s programmed suppression. Our dissent is being curated, filtered, and—when necessary—erased. Not always by local actors, but by algorithmic decisions made in California or London.

5. Why Nigeria? Nigeria is Africa’s largest democracy, its largest market, and one of its loudest voices online. If you can influence Nigerian opinion, you can influence Africa’s trajectory. That’s why there’s a quiet race to dominate our minds—digitally. And they’re winning.

The Goal?

Control the future without firing a single shot. Through your screen. Through your own words.

They don’t need to jail you anymore—they just need your data. They don’t need to conquer you—they just need to know what you love, hate, and fear... then they can sell it back to you, weaponized.

Stay paranoid. That "targeted ad" might be the least dangerous thing you're seeing.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by MAYOWAAK: 10:43am On Jul 31, 2025

With the biometric device used for capturing and detecting finger prints in place, the use of fraudulently obtained NIN, BVN, pictures a d other details cannot be successfully utilised. For example if a scammer goes to a bank to open an account with such illegally obtained information, he will be asked to match his fingerprints with that on the biometric device which belongs to the rightful owner. The ILLEGAL FINGERPRINT will be flagged immediately.

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by AngelSlay: 10:45am On Jul 31, 2025

You're absolutely right, and this is a global issue that’s deeper than most people realize. In fact, data breaches and identity theft are some of the fastest-growing cybercrimes in the world. What many people don’t know is that personal data is a hot commodity on the dark web. Emails, passwords, passport numbers, driver’s licenses, full bank credentials — all these can be purchased for as little as a few dollars.

Many of the data breaches that feed the dark web aren’t even from poorly secured local websites, but from major international platforms that store massive amounts of user information. Once breached, hackers extract, compile, and resell this information — often to fraudsters across the globe, including Nigeria.

Yahoo boys and scammers don’t always “hack” in the traditional sense — many simply buy leaked data from these dark web markets and then use phishing techniques or social engineering to scam their targets. It’s big business, and a lot of these dark web marketplaces are run by Russian and Eastern European cybercrime syndicates, or Asian blackhat groups who are extremely sophisticated.

Even with efforts by organizations like the FBI, Interpol, and Europol, every time one dark web marketplace is shut down, five new ones pop up. It’s like trying to kill weeds with scissors — they keep growing back.

So yes, as much as tech has helped the world, the downside is that our digital footprints can be exploited. People really need to be cautious about where they enter personal details. Not every website or online form is safe. Sometimes these platforms are fake fronts designed specifically to steal your identity.

PulaPower:
Not just NIN..

Passport, Bank informations are being sold on dark webs. Nigeria own is still even small compare to what USA is facing regarding dark webs..

How do you think yahoo boys do get people’s information? They do buy it. There’s no country’s passport, bank informations etc that you want to buy online that you won’t see..

These dark webs are usually own by Asians, Russians & Europeans. Fbi has tried to close down as many dark webs as they can but they’re just too plenty in circulation... As much as technology is good, it also has disadvantages and here are some of the disadvantages..

If you’re fond of using your personal informations to apply for things online, you need to be careful. Most of the time, hackers do design platforms to steal your informations and you wouldn’t know..

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Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by AngelSlay: 10:47am On Jul 31, 2025

BeginsAtHome:
Prof Isah Pantami really screwed the entire process.

I mean, what is all these

That’s a bit unfair. While Prof. Isa Pantami may not have gotten everything right, he actually played a key role in digitizing many aspects of Nigeria's communications and identity systems. Under his leadership, initiatives like the NIN-SIM linkage, improved broadband penetration, and tech-driven policy reforms were accelerated.

Yes, there were flaws in execution and data privacy remains a concern — but let’s not ignore the groundwork he laid for digital transformation. The real issue is continuity, proper oversight, and implementation by the systems that came after him.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by Talismann: 10:51am On Jul 31, 2025

SporaD8:
A Country where anything goes - an open source operating system!

I believe it is the efforts of external parties that's still keeping the country from imminent collapse because obviously, even the citizens are feed-up with the country.

yes they keeping the country "together" to ensure their sustained plunder. If the country goes kaput or disintegrates today, the selfish interests of these lots will not be actualized

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by themanderon: 10:52am On Jul 31, 2025

Sad the government cannot protect the data it obtained from the citizens. Our government keeps failing in every aspect. They can't secure you and now they can't secure your data.

Re: "Nigerians’ NINs, BVNs, Photos Still For Sale Online. I Bought 4 With Just ₦560" by dustmalik(m): 10:56am On Jul 31, 2025

BeginsAtHome:
Prof Isah Pantami really screwed the entire process.

I mean, what is all these

Pantami is not there anymore. Why can't the people in charge today revoke those accesses?

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