Kled AI, a US-based data marketplace that rewards users for uploading photos, videos, and other multimodal content, has withdrawn its services from Nigeria following the detection of “rampant fraud”.
Kled AI, founded in 2025, functions as a human data
marketplace.
It focuses on bridging the gap between everyday consumers
and AI companies requiring high-quality training.
Avi Patel, the 22-year-old founder of the company, said
Kled’s app was removed from the Nigerian app store, with the organisation
implementing an IP ban on the country after discovering that approximately 95
percent of activities from the region were fraudulent.
The platform, which pays users for contributing data assets,
reportedly paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars over four months before
the scale of the abuse became unsustainable.
According to the founder, fraudsters submitted black
screens, duplicate files, AI-generated images, and mass-produced fake Japanese
passports featuring photoshopped Nigerian faces during the Know Your Customer
(KYC) verification process.
“We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP
banned the entire region,” Patel said.
“After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a
≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of
black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated
images, etc. at an unimaginable scale.
“In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines
have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size.”
Patel hinted that the suspension is temporary, pending the
development of more robust detection tools.
Meanwhile, some Nigerians have acknowledged the prevalence
of fraud in online schemes such as Kled operations, with others denying
widespread knowledge of the app while dismissing the announcement as a
publicity stunt.
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