41% Of Gmail Phishers Are From Nigeria, According To Google Report.

During the Google security team research, more than 10,000 phishing kit were discovered in use between March 2016 to February 2017. And those kits was used to steal account credentials from people and atleast 12 Million account credentials was stolen.

Muller and Frierson - the security experts found out 41% of the hijackers that use Gmail to phish for account credentials are actually from Nigeria and 50 percent of them are targeting people from the United States.

Here is the list,
As you can see Nigeria made the top list with 41% followed by U.S with 11.4%. yeah, such percentage difference is just like we are the root of everything, if this wasn't from Google i will say they are trying to us the bad people again. But hey, what if the 41% are not Nigerians but people from other countries who use vpn to mask their locations?

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