Nigeria’s federal payroll system was being illegally manipulated by users who entered fictitious identities to defraud the federal government out of benefits they were never entitled to. The federal government of Nigeria discovered that it was paying millions of dollars per year in payroll to illegally registered Ghost workers who were not legitimate, eligible employees. Common among governments and private businesses with large workforces, Ghost workers seek to collect benefits they are not qualified for by falsifying their identities. Often, without modern identification technologies, governments like Nigeria do not have the ability to find these illegal Ghost workers and remove them from the payroll system.