Before the technological innovation that brought about the Internet, the financial fraudsters popularly known as 419-ners were in operation in Nigeria especially in the commercial city of Lagos. They were mainly grown-up, educated and illiterate men and women, who specialised in using fax machines to defraud unsuspected foreigners and Nigerians.

In the early 90’s, they were the big men and women in the society. They commanded respect because of the enormous wealth at their disposal. Unfortunately for some of them like Emmanuel Nwude and others, they were arrested by the anti-graft agency, tried and convicted. They lost some of their assets to the anti-graft agency and have since been struggling for survival.

In recent times and with the coming of the Internet system, Nigerian youths especially, the undergraduates, have taken to the illicit trade called Internet scam. Investigations reveal that this development is responsible for drastic reduction in cultism in the higher institutions, as it has been overshadowed by widespread cyber fraud.

Popularly dubbed Yahoo boys, to perpetrate the crime, these youths often use yahoo free e-mail account. The fraudulent business became prevalent in Nigeria in 2000 with the accessibility of the Internet. Youths who engage in the fraud scam became rich overnight, with or without their parents’ knowledge. They owned expensive cars, houses, jewellery and more. They are highly respected and often initiate their peers into the scam.

According to Nigerian police statistics, thousands of undergraduates dabble in the Web fraud. A rich yahoo boy is a role model for the youth, they fancy his lifestyle and want to be like him. The only thing that disturbs them is how to make easy and quick money.

On how to start internet scam, a web designer and computer engineer, Mr Simon Okwu told The Guardian that Yahoo boys must have a computer, good phone 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. The best trick to start with is titled “Web freestyle”. Almost 99 per cent of yahoo boys started their careers from this fraud. You would register a private account on a popular dating website, fill in your profile, find an attractive photo, and wait till somebody falls in love with you. Subsequently, she or he will begin paying your bills and sending dollars to you.

“A yahoo boy should learn how to send fake messages to both social networks. It is a little risk field of a yahoo boy specialisation, which can bring real money. Yahoo boys don’t have 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 will believe you.

“Yahoo boys also professionally master another deception technique, which is called phishing. This method allows acquiring any person’s private data (passwords, usernames, and credit card data). Yahoo boys 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. They usually work on weekends when banks are closed. Thus, until Monday morning victims will be unable to stop any illegal transactions performed by them. To become a successful yahoo boy in Nigeria, they usually find reliable allies in banking staff. These people are young and crucially in need of money. They usually help yahoo boys to commit frauds. 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,” Okwu said.

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Say No to theft

‘Big Boys’ Moving To Lekki
IN Lagos, those who have hit it big enough are fast relocating to Lekki, where they have houses that offer them some security, just as the environment keeps prying eyes and genuine security agents off their backs.In Lekki, most residents mind their businesses and care less about these rowdy and emerging big boys, so long as they are not “criminals’ or thieves and robbers.

And for these boys, it has become a safe haven, unlike in the less developed areas of the city, where they are constantly harassed for cash by security agents.Once any of them buys a house, his clique virtually relocate with him, of course, for ease of business. Soon, the highbrow Lekki will turn to scammers den, not haven, if the tide is not arrested. But how can that be?Some have even graduated to ‘Yahoo Plus’ by adding the use of charms to their games to hypnotise their victims.To evade being caught, the big ones among them who can afford it go for iPhones rather than android phones.

There Are Apprentices
COME to think of it: these emerging ‘big boys’ are gradually having ‘smaller boys’ or ‘apprentices’ under them.Ohima (surname withheld) had completed his secondary education two years ago in Lagos. He had written entrance examinations into the higher institutions twice without securing admission.

He lives with his parents. His father is a ‘businessman,’ while his mother is a trader and shop owner.One morning, he was asked what he was doing now, since he was yet to secure admission into the university or polytechnic.

His answer was simply: “I am learning work.” Probed further what kind of trade he was learning, presumably before he is able to secure admission, he walk away, saying: “Bros, I dey come.”

Further enquiries from his former friends and schoolmates showed that he had joined the ‘trade,’ with the knowledge and tacit approval of his parents.Two months later, Ohima was not doing badly for himself: He looks better fed and cared for, ostensibly from the ‘pay’ from the trade. And, of course, his circle of friends have changed, with some of them cruising in cars, and he is being envied by some of his former friends.



Abeokuta As New Abode For Internet Scammers
EXCEPT something drastic is done the next generation of youths appear jinxed, as a large number of their population are engaged in cyber crimes and other vices.The number is growing at an alarming rate. There is no surprise that there is proliferation of Yahoo Boys everywhere.

Cases of internet scams have occurred in institutions like Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, (AAUA) Ondo State, Lagos State University (LASU), Lead City University, Ibadan and Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure, Ondo State, among others.

It is also common in areas like FESTAC town, Shomolu, Opebi, Ojodu, Oke-Ira, Akiode, Bariga, Akoka, Mushin and Ojodu, all in Lagos State, while Sagamu and Akute in Ogun State are also inclusive.

In Lagos alone, it is estimated that there are five million scammers with an impressive success rate.In January 2012, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested two undergraduate Internet scammers and six other fraudsters at the upscale 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.

One of them, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, claimed to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia.A search conducted by EFCC operatives at Olusegun’ s apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars – a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV.

The trend has, however, advanced beyond the ordinary cyber crime level to what is generally known as Yahoo Plus, Oracle Plus Plus or Yahoo Extra. This new trend is the latest fad among unscrupulous youths and an elevated form of the traditional modes of Internet fraud.

This advance fad is believed to have started in 2006, when the regular yahoo boys began to experience challenges of getting regular income.This trend involves performing various rituals using charmed ring in their right index fingers and a black powdery substance mixed with honey, which they lick before speaking with their maga (victims) on phone.

Some use small tortoise, which they keep under their feet whenever they are chatting on laptops with victims. Their fingertips also bear incisions and a charm-filled animal horn prepared by their spiritualists.

Some also go as far as sleeping in the cemetery and bathing in a river to brighten their chances of getting the maga hypnotised. Once this is done, the victim is guaranteed of remitting money to the swindler’s account regularly from any part of the world.

Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, is reportedly the new abode of these con men. The Guardian investigation reveals that majority of them live in Adigbe, Saraki, Obada-Oko, Elega, Oluwo and Onikoko areas of the town and around the campuses.

While some of them are alleged to be undergraduates of OOU, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), a fraction are students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) and Federal College of Education (FCE) Osiele. Others are drop- outs that have been either rusticated or dropped out of school, after they have become rich and only hang around campuses as students.

For the novice, it may not be difficult to recognise these fraudsters, as they have a common identity. From The Guardian findings, they are easily recognised by their mode of dressing and appearance. They are always very proud because of the financial resources at their disposal.

For those in school, they live big on campuses and attend lectures whenever they deem fit, considering that they have the money to buy over lecturers. They are dapper dressers and widely admired by youths. They are treated like kings, ride the best automobiles that cost millions of naira and always dating the most beautiful ladies in town.

A source in Abeokuta, who wants his name off-print, told The Guardian that fraudsters live together in the afore-mentioned areas in the town. They move together and flaunt their ill-gotten wealth to the admiration of people who celebrate them without questioning the source of their wealth.


Wire wire is hacking into international banks websites to make use of the code on their cheques and take the codes to do withdrawal through their picker. This enables them to get rich faster because they withdraw codes with huge sums of money that can sustain them for years.

Alibaba is just to get information of a particular wealthy foreigner, get their credit card details to make another credit card and use them to order for containers of goods from abroad. So they get their cash from anything that comes from the container when sold.

Slangs common among them include Thugger, a general nickname with a specific handshake, Eke or PAPA AJASCO means police or SARS officers, Hit means they’ve just been paid, Gbenusi means to go paint the club red.

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Before the technological innovation that brought about the Internet, the financial fraudsters popularly known as 419-ners were in operation in Nigeria especially in the commercial city of Lagos. They were mainly grown-up, educated and illiterate men and women, who specialised in using fax machines to defraud unsuspected foreigners and Nigerians.

In the early 90’s, they were the big men and women in the society. They commanded respect because of the enormous wealth at their disposal. Unfortunately for some of them like Emmanuel Nwude and others, they were arrested by the anti-graft agency, tried and convicted. They lost some of their assets to the anti-graft agency and have since been struggling for survival.

In recent times and with the coming of the Internet system, Nigerian youths especially, the undergraduates, have taken to the illicit trade called Internet scam. Investigations reveal that this development is responsible for drastic reduction in cultism in the higher institutions, as it has been overshadowed by widespread cyber fraud.

Popularly dubbed Yahoo boys, to perpetrate the crime, these youths often use yahoo free e-mail account. The fraudulent business became prevalent in Nigeria in 2000 with the accessibility of the Internet. Youths who engage in the fraud scam became rich overnight, with or without their parents’ knowledge. They owned expensive cars, houses, jewellery and more. They are highly respected and often initiate their peers into the scam.

According to Nigerian police statistics, thousands of undergraduates dabble in the Web fraud. A rich yahoo boy is a role model for the youth, they fancy his lifestyle and want to be like him. The only thing that disturbs them is how to make easy and quick money.

On how to start internet scam, a web designer and computer engineer, Mr Simon Okwu told The Guardian that Yahoo boys must have a computer, good phone 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. The best trick to start with is titled “Web freestyle”. Almost 99 per cent of yahoo boys started their careers from this fraud. You would register a private account on a popular dating website, fill in your profile, find an attractive photo, and wait till somebody falls in love with you. Subsequently, she or he will begin paying your bills and sending dollars to you.

“A yahoo boy should learn how to send fake messages to both social networks. It is a little risk field of a yahoo boy specialisation, which can bring real money. Yahoo boys don’t have 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 will believe you.

“Yahoo boys also professionally master another deception technique, which is called phishing. This method allows acquiring any person’s private data (passwords, usernames, and credit card data). Yahoo boys 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. They usually work on weekends when banks are closed. Thus, until Monday morning victims will be unable to stop any illegal transactions performed by them. To become a successful yahoo boy in Nigeria, they usually find reliable allies in banking staff. These people are young and crucially in need of money. They usually help yahoo boys to commit frauds. 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,” Okwu said.

if you would like to shop for Usa number or Uk number for whatsap and chatting 08184324268happy Sunday, and also you would like to start out hustling freshly, I even have alternative ways of earning income but online and offline ...meet me on the whatap as we succeed together.
say No to scam
Say No to gambling
Say No to theft

‘Big Boys’ Moving To Lekki
IN Lagos, those who have hit it big enough are fast relocating to Lekki, where they have houses that offer them some security, just as the environment keeps prying eyes and genuine security agents off their backs.In Lekki, most residents mind their businesses and care less about these rowdy and emerging big boys, so long as they are not “criminals’ or thieves and robbers.

And for these boys, it has become a safe haven, unlike in the less developed areas of the city, where they are constantly harassed for cash by security agents.Once any of them buys a house, his clique virtually relocate with him, of course, for ease of business. Soon, the highbrow Lekki will turn to scammers den, not haven, if the tide is not arrested. But how can that be?Some have even graduated to ‘Yahoo Plus’ by adding the use of charms to their games to hypnotise their victims.To evade being caught, the big ones among them who can afford it go for iPhones rather than android phones.

There Are Apprentices
COME to think of it: these emerging ‘big boys’ are gradually having ‘smaller boys’ or ‘apprentices’ under them.Ohima (surname withheld) had completed his secondary education two years ago in Lagos. He had written entrance examinations into the higher institutions twice without securing admission.

He lives with his parents. His father is a ‘businessman,’ while his mother is a trader and shop owner.One morning, he was asked what he was doing now, since he was yet to secure admission into the university or polytechnic.

His answer was simply: “I am learning work.” Probed further what kind of trade he was learning, presumably before he is able to secure admission, he walk away, saying: “Bros, I dey come.”

Further enquiries from his former friends and schoolmates showed that he had joined the ‘trade,’ with the knowledge and tacit approval of his parents.Two months later, Ohima was not doing badly for himself: He looks better fed and cared for, ostensibly from the ‘pay’ from the trade. And, of course, his circle of friends have changed, with some of them cruising in cars, and he is being envied by some of his former friends.



Abeokuta As New Abode For Internet Scammers
EXCEPT something drastic is done the next generation of youths appear jinxed, as a large number of their population are engaged in cyber crimes and other vices.The number is growing at an alarming rate. There is no surprise that there is proliferation of Yahoo Boys everywhere.

Cases of internet scams have occurred in institutions like Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, (AAUA) Ondo State, Lagos State University (LASU), Lead City University, Ibadan and Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure, Ondo State, among others.

It is also common in areas like FESTAC town, Shomolu, Opebi, Ojodu, Oke-Ira, Akiode, Bariga, Akoka, Mushin and Ojodu, all in Lagos State, while Sagamu and Akute in Ogun State are also inclusive.

In Lagos alone, it is estimated that there are five million scammers with an impressive success rate.In January 2012, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested two undergraduate Internet scammers and six other fraudsters at the upscale 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.

One of them, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, claimed to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia.A search conducted by EFCC operatives at Olusegun’ s apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars – a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV.

The trend has, however, advanced beyond the ordinary cyber crime level to what is generally known as Yahoo Plus, Oracle Plus Plus or Yahoo Extra. This new trend is the latest fad among unscrupulous youths and an elevated form of the traditional modes of Internet fraud.

This advance fad is believed to have started in 2006, when the regular yahoo boys began to experience challenges of getting regular income.This trend involves performing various rituals using charmed ring in their right index fingers and a black powdery substance mixed with honey, which they lick before speaking with their maga (victims) on phone.

Some use small tortoise, which they keep under their feet whenever they are chatting on laptops with victims. Their fingertips also bear incisions and a charm-filled animal horn prepared by their spiritualists.

Some also go as far as sleeping in the cemetery and bathing in a river to brighten their chances of getting the maga hypnotised. Once this is done, the victim is guaranteed of remitting money to the swindler’s account regularly from any part of the world.

Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, is reportedly the new abode of these con men. The Guardian investigation reveals that majority of them live in Adigbe, Saraki, Obada-Oko, Elega, Oluwo and Onikoko areas of the town and around the campuses.

While some of them are alleged to be undergraduates of OOU, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), a fraction are students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) and Federal College of Education (FCE) Osiele. Others are drop- outs that have been either rusticated or dropped out of school, after they have become rich and only hang around campuses as students.

For the novice, it may not be difficult to recognise these fraudsters, as they have a common identity. From The Guardian findings, they are easily recognised by their mode of dressing and appearance. They are always very proud because of the financial resources at their disposal.

For those in school, they live big on campuses and attend lectures whenever they deem fit, considering that they have the money to buy over lecturers. They are dapper dressers and widely admired by youths. They are treated like kings, ride the best automobiles that cost millions of naira and always dating the most beautiful ladies in town.

A source in Abeokuta, who wants his name off-print, told The Guardian that fraudsters live together in the afore-mentioned areas in the town. They move together and flaunt their ill-gotten wealth to the admiration of people who celebrate them without questioning the source of their wealth.


Wire wire is hacking into international banks websites to make use of the code on their cheques and take the codes to do withdrawal through their picker. This enables them to get rich faster because they withdraw codes with huge sums of money that can sustain them for years.

Alibaba is just to get information of a particular wealthy foreigner, get their credit card details to make another credit card and use them to order for containers of goods from abroad. So they get their cash from anything that comes from the container when sold.

Slangs common among them include Thugger, a general nickname with a specific handshake, Eke or PAPA AJASCO means police or SARS officers, Hit means they’ve just been paid, Gbenusi means to go paint the club red.

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