A genuine risk for Nigerian businesses.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
A cloned website at a similar domain Fake social accounts using your name and photographs People collecting payments claiming to be you Your bank details replaced on a fake page
WHY IT HAPPENS
An established business with customers is worth impersonating.
REDUCING THE RISK
Register the obvious variants of your domain, and redirect them to your real site Tell customers what your genuine channels are, explicitly, on your site Never publish bank details on a public page where they can be swapped by an impersonator Use verified payment links or a proper gateway instead Keep your social profiles active, so the genuine one is obvious
IF YOU FIND AN IMPERSONATOR
Report it to the platform or to the host of the cloned site Tell your customers publicly Keep evidence
WHAT TO TELL CUSTOMERS
Which domain is yours Which payment methods you use That you will never ask for payment to a different account by message
The last point prevents the most damaging version of this.
