By Our reporter 5.5.2026
Kled a data marketplace that rewards users for uploading photos, videos, and other multimodal content has exited the Nigerian app store.
Kled said in a statement that although Nigerians were among the earliest adopters of the app, the ban became imperative after 95 percent of fraudulent activities on the platform were linked users from Nigeria.
, “We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region, and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support.
“Kled has been up and running and out of beta for four months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over one billion assets onto our platform.
“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.
“As a startup we can’t afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right.”