electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-banking-mobile-banking-sessions-nigeria

⚠️ Synthetic dataset — Parameterized from published SSA literature, not real observations. Not suitable for empirical analysis or policy inference.

Mobile Banking App Sessions

Dataset Description

Nigerian mobile banking app sessions with session hijacking fraud labels

This is a production-grade synthetic dataset with authentic Nigerian banking context, designed for session hijacking detection, account takeover prevention, and mobile fraud detection.

Key Features

• 🇳🇬 Nigerian Context: Real bank names, states, demographics
• 📊 ML-Ready Labels: Fraud flag (0.8% prevalence)
• ⚡ Large Scale: 3,000,000 rows
• 🎯 Realistic Distributions: Lognormal session durations, Poisson action counts, hourly patterns
• 📅 Temporal Coverage: 2023-01-01 to 2024-12-31

Dataset Structure

Splits

• Train: 2,100,000 rows (70%)
• Validation: 450,000 rows (15%)
• Test: 450,000 rows (15%)

Schema

Key columns: session_id, session_start/end, customer_id, account_id, device_id, device_os, app_version, session_duration_seconds, actions_count, transactions_count, login_method, state, ip_address, session_status, fraud_flag

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load full dataset
dataset = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/nigerian_mobile_banking_sessions")

# Load specific split
train_data = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/nigerian_mobile_banking_sessions", split="train")

Labels

• Type: Fraud flag (0.8% prevalence)
• Use Case: session hijacking detection, account takeover prevention, and mobile fraud detection

Nigerian Context

Nigerian mobile banking behaviors, device OS distribution (75% Android, 25% iOS), biometric authentication prevalence, and authentic fraud patterns including location jumps and rooted devices.

Citation

@dataset{nigerian_banking_mobile_banking_sessions,
  title = {Nigerian Mobile Banking App Sessions},
  author = {Electric Sheep Africa},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/nigerian_mobile_banking_sessions}}
}

License

Apache 2.0 - Free for commercial and research use.

Contact

• Organization: Electric Sheep Africa
• Collection: Nigeria Banking & Finance Datasets