How the Yahoo boys do their work

Many youths think that success comes easily. This makes them indulge in criminal activities making easy money thus becoming successful. This has led many youths astray and they often find themselves indulged in criminal activities. Many youths want to live beyond their means of livelihood and are refusing to work hard to earn their own money. 

Who are Yahoo boys?
Yahoo boy is a name coined to refer to scammers who use the Yahoo accounts to defraud people in Nigeria their hard earned money. This is because it is much easier and cheap to create a Yahoo account. The Nigerian low often refers to the yahoo boys with code 419 which deals with fraud activities.

How they perform their illegal activities
From the year 2000, many cases that are related to fraud activities have been reported to increase drastically in Nigeria and other neighboring countries such as Ghana. This is because setting up a Yahoo account is much easier and cheap. Many youths have been able to live a lavishly and have been reported to buy expensive mansions, jewelry, and cars from the money they steal.

For you to become a yahoo boy, you should ensure that you have a stable, fast internet connection and a computer. The next step is to create an account on a well-known dating website platform. Fill in all your personal details and upload a photo that will attract other people to fall in love with you. Lastly, you should also practice sending fake messages on social media platforms. This will help you gain more money from your victims.

In order for you to become a very successful Yahoo boy, you must be ready to do anything to convince people and master the deception practices such as crying for help or begging to gain much sympathy. This makes it easy for you to be able to acquire another person’s data, their passwords, and their user names in order to defraud them easily.

Yahoo boys also advertise expensive properties such as houses and cars which are on lease on their fake accounts. Some victims who fall in their trap pay their money to the fake accounts before “realtors” disappear suddenly.

The Yahoo boys also hang around ATM spots where they easily defraud the illiterate people the aged together with the expectant women. This always occurs during the weekends because most banks are usually closed making it hard for the yahoo boys victims to stop any illegal transactions. For you to succeed in the fraud you should also have allies working in the bank making it much easier to commit fraud without being noticed.

In the recent past in Nigeria, the yahoo boys used public cafes to carry out their illegal activities. This changed after the Nigerian police raided the cafes regularly making them shift to other secure locations. Many youths have joined the yahoo boys after being attracted by the amount of money and wealth their well-established yahoo friends have.

In conclusion 
Youths should avoid at all cost in indulging in the cyber-crime activities and work hard to gain their own money and wealth.