Have you ever heard about yahoo boys? Yahoo boys are named so after one of the hugest Internet companies on the planet – Yahoo!, because many scammers often use its free e-mail accounts to commit their crimes. Instead of getting a legal job, many young people in Nigeria dream of becoming a yahoo boy. Keep on reading the article to get to know how to become a yahoo boy in Nigeria.
Who are yahoo boys?
For Nigerian law, yahoo boys are people who carry out 419 fraud. This number refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which directly deals with fraud. It is also a kind of a swindle in which the lawyer usually proposes plenty of money for a smaller up-front deal.
Internet fraud became widely accessible simultaneously in Nigeria and Ghana in early 2000. This act has quickly become a real trend amongst young people. Yahoo boys have become surprisingly respected people.
Therefore, Internet fraud has rapidly allowed many young Nigerians buying expensive cars, houses, jewelry, etc. Now it has become the only means of livelihood for thousands of youth.
Experts in Internet security also call yahoo boys all those people who commit various shady deals with the help of Internet. Nevertheless, for many years 419 schemes have been effectively duping many foreigners.
According to police statistics, thousands of undergraduates in universities of our country dabble in the Web fraud. A rich yahoo boy is an example for the youth for the type of way of life they want to have. Thus, many of such con artists have already actually become productive.
What is yahoo boy format of work?
Being afraid of unemployment, many young Nigerians consider Internet fraud as an original exit in such a country like Nigeria. Yahoo-boys have in mind only rapid monetary rewards. Thus, how to become a yahoo boy?
1) Yahoo boy should have a computer and a stable Internet connection. There are plenty of examples of how to start a yahoo boy career on the Web. Therefore, young people quickly study all the ground rules.
2) The best trick to start with is titled “Web freestyle”. Almost 99% of yahoo boys started their careers from this fraud. You should register a private account on a popular dating website, fill in your profile, find an attractive photo, and wait somebody falls in love with you. Subsequently, she or he will begin paying your bills and sending dollars to you.
3) A yahoo boy should learn how to send fake messages to both social networks. It is a little risk field of a yahoo boy specialization, which can bring real money.
4) Yahoo boys must have no morality. They usually stop at nothing to deceive people and pocket their money. Therefore, if you want to become a successful yahoo boy, you should learn how to beg, cry online, call for help in the written form. You must do everything so that people believe you.
5) Yahoo boys should professionally master another deception technique, which is called phishing. This method allows acquiring any person`s private data (passwords, usernames, and credit card data).
6) Many yahoo boys in Nigeria have been using a so-called apartment trick for years to defraud plenty of foreigners. The trick is also very simple but lucrative one. A yahoo boy pretends to be a realtor. She or he places advertisements of luxurious apartments for lease on the Web. They upload many photos of high-class apartments obtainable for rent. As a result, their victims make payments to a particular account. Then “realtors” suddenly disappear.
7) Yahoo boys should also master the ATM fraud technique. Con artists usually walk around ATM spots. Their clients are various vulnerable users – aged people, pregnant women, illiterate people, etc. When a yahoo boy finds his victim, he usually changes credit cards to deceive people.
8) Yahoo boys usually work on weekends, because banks are closed. Thus, until Monday morning victims will be unable to stop any illegal transactions performed by yahoo boys.
9) To become a successful yahoo boy in Nigeria, one should be able to find reliable allies in banking staff. These people should also be young and crucially need money. They usually help yahoo boys to commit frauds.
10) Becoming a yahoo boy, one must forget about any opportunity to find a legal job. All your strength should be directed to finding new schemes of taking money from people via the Internet.
Results from some research also reveals that yahoo boys get targets by posting some messages hyping themselves on dating sites. See example below:
Hi,
I’m Steven Lampard from united kingdom, I work in a construction company as a contractor, I’m 35 years of age and still single, I have a kid, I like playing football especially a defender which make people call me Ferdinand because he is also a good defender from Manchester United in English premier league. i also like playing golf, likewise tennis and basket ball. I like meeting people for friendship and love to share knowledge with them for fun. I like making people around me laugh and make them realize that it is a pleasure for us to be alive.I’d like to meet someone that is ready to take me of whom I am and I take her foe whom she was. someone that will make me realize that without someone like her, my life is not complete and who will bring out the good dreams I have being dreaming since the day i was born. someone that will know what i want when i laugh and what i don’t want when i’m angry. in one world, i’m really looking for the love of my life, someone to love with all my heart and she love me with all her heart.
Conclusion
Previously, public cafes in Nigeria were the main places where yahoo boys carried out internet fraud. After regular police raids, yahoo boys just moved to other locations. They have already found new ways of making money. They visit schools and universities in the daytime and carry out frauds at nights.
Therefore, no wonder that so many young people are interested in how to become a successful yahoo boy in Nigeria. The numerous news about wealthy life motivates the mass involvement of the adolescents in different cyber-crimes. In this way, a considerable part of Nigerian society celebrates prosperity without questioning where the money comes from.