In her one-room apartment in Lugbe, Abuja, 35-year-old Laraba Jacob was getting frustrated by incessant phone calls from agents of a mobile payment service. Initially, she dismissed the calls as harmless. The callers merely encouraged her to open an account, an offer she had once shown interes
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