BUSINESS DAY
With N100, information of Nigerians can be accessed via their NIN and BVN through a website anyverify.com.ng. This raises serious privacy and identity theft concerns as the website doesn’t have any feature showing it belongs to the Nigerian authorities in charge of identity management.
The National Identification Number (NIN) and Bank Verification Number (BVN) are part of Nigerians’ means of transactions for business, official, international and local purposes. These information are private and are not meant to be ‘easily’ accessed by anyone except on demand by security operatives for safety reasons.
As observed by our correspondent, any verify.com.ng shows that to access any information, a user needs to login (if they already have an existing account) or register.
To register, the user input an email which a code would be sent to as part of registration and on the next page of the registration, the code and other information of the user are demanded.
The unauthorised website bragging to hold and provide access to sensitive personal and financial data of Nigerian citizens claims it “provide exceptional services that suit all your needs pertaining to verification services. Millions of customers stick to AnyVerify because of high reliability, lowest cost, excellent support.”
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