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Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by themomentng: 12:27pm On Feb 24, 2019
This sounds incredible, but it is true anyway. ‘Yahoo boys’ are not just growing in number, they now have apprentices that understudy them. This is to ensure continuality of the game. The apprentices after ‘graduating,’ will also have to train another set of apprentices and the circle continues.

Ikechukwu Nnaji is 21-year-old man, born in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State. He hails from Abia State. Nnaji has a disarming smile, and it flashes like a hundred watt bulb, illuminating his handsome face. Nnaji is small in stature, earning him the nickname, ‘Small’ among his friends.
He said that his parents relocated to Abia State five years ago after his father lost his job as a factory worker. His parents agreed to relocate to their village after his mom’s fruit selling business could no longer support them.
While his parents and other siblings prepared to leave Lagos for good, Nnaji’s uncle asked him to come and live with him.

He recalled: “Uncle Aaron is a commercial bus driver with three children. He promised to support me through my secondary school. I finished my secondary school after two years with my uncle. My parents relocated to our hometown. My uncle tried his best possible to pay for my West African Certificate Examination fees (WACE) and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). I was not able to pass my first JAMB examination to study accounting. During that period, things changed for my uncle; everything went from bad to worse. I had no choice than to start caring for myself.”

He said that one day, as he was heading to Mile 2, he saw one of his friends, Mathew. Mathew lives at Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State. Nnaji quickly summed Mathew up with a glance. He noticed that the latter looked and dressed well.
He said: “Mathew was looking good. He held big smartphones. His shirt was expensive. By then I was looking for whatever job to do in order to keep body and soul together. Even in my uncle’s house, life had become very tough and to feed tougher. I often used to go to construction sites to seek menial work. At such sites, I make N1500 for serving bricklayers with sand and cement, which they had mixed. And on some other days, there wouldn’t be work at all.”

He got chatting with Mathew and they quickly exchanged snippets of information about mutual friends. Along the line, Nnaji disclosed his financial constraints, his uncle’s challenges and his search for a job. Mathew listened, slapped Nnaji’s shoulders sympathetically and asked him to meet him at Ikotun.
Excited, Nnaji told his uncle about his chanced meeting with Mathew, and that he was sure of landing a job soon. But Uncle Aaron was not excited, he looked troubled and warned Nnaji to be careful.

Nnaji narrated: “I went to Mathew’s place, where he introduced me to a guy called Eze Ego (King of Money). Mathew said that Eze Ego was looking for boys, who would work for him. Initially, the only thing I heard was that the job has to do with the internet. And then I got to know what it was all about. I heard that a lot of boys were doing it.”

Revealing how yahoo apprentices are recruited and cybercrime operations carried out, Nnaji said that the “big boys” (bosses/old hands), usually place vacancies on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, seeking for apprentices. But only the initiated knows what such posts mean.
He said: “People will see the post, but wouldn’t understand what they were reading. Only those in that line of business understand such posts. Matthew is working for another person, but when he saw the post, he knew what Eze Ago wanted.

And luckily for me, I ran into him on that fateful day. He linked me to Eze Ego. I have been an apprentice to Eze Ego now for two years. He is nice. We’re three boys with Eze Ego; he treats us like a family member. He got married early last year. The wife also likes us.”

Asked the duties of a “Yahoo Apprentice”, Nnaji replied: “I’m the one that used to cook in the house before his wife came. He trusts me because we are from the same state. Also, when he lost his mother, I travelled with him and helped with his mother’s burial. I do wash his car every morning and sometimes wash his clothes.”

He continued: “In the last two years, I have travelled home to see my mother. My boss supports me with money and encourages me to buy things for my mother. He knows my father is late. Yes, my father died after he and mother relocated to our village. My mother used to tell my boss to take care of me. My boss is like an elder brother to me. He provides everything we need in his home, including laptops that we. He also feeds us.”

He explained that in the course of the training, an apprentice will be introduced to different sites on the internet and different cybercrimes.
Listing some of the jobs, Nnaji said: “There are dating sites jobs, bank account hackings, selling of things like cameras, phones, others on the internet.”

Beaming with pride, Nnaji brags: “I was able to learn the job within a short time. My boss soon made me the manager. I made money for him through posting of cameras, phones, pianos, on websites we created. When people see the posts, they will become interested, thinking the items on the websites actually exist.

“They will make payment online, we then generate tracking number for them. They believe that the goods they paid for are real. We will promise to deliver the items within three days. After the three days had elapsed, the clients will call to complain that they had not seen the goods.

We’ll tell them that the Nigerian Customs had impounded their goods that, they need to make a small payment, which our office will use to resolve the issue.

That’s how we’ll tell all sorts of lies until the customer gets frustrated, tired and stops calling. We also have jobs, were we go on dating sites and promise women marriage.”
Asked how fraudsters make money from proposing marriages to strangers, Nnaji laughed and disclosed: “ You simply come up with lies that your mom or dad is sick and that you need a certain amount of money to pay for his/her medical bills.”

He continued: “There are many systems we use. Other boys are doing well for my boss. Some boys had been apprentices to my boss and had left. Some left because they couldn’t meet up or didn’t understand the job.”
On how long an apprentice needs to understudy his boss before starting his own business? Nnaji responded: “I’m already saving towards getting an accommodation and a laptop.”

Explaining how he used to make his own money, while being an apprentice, Nnaji stated: “Sometimes I hit deals without the knowledge of my boss. The proceeds go into my bank account.”
He added: “Sometimes, if we make a good deal, my boss gives us money. It’s a sign of appreciating efforts and commending us for a job well-done. My boss is better than other bosses in this line of work. Most of these bosses, their boys are suffering. Whenever such bosses discover their boys did something behind them, they beat them as they are criminals. They usually send them away empty handed.”

Nnaji said that among all the different ways of cybercrimes that he had studied, only one really appealed to him – that is hacking of people’s accounts.
He said: “That is where you make more money. There’s money there than posting images of non-existent goods on fake websites.”
He said that hacking accounts will fetch him enough money to further his university education and also take care of his mother and siblings. He admitted that he was already responsible for the payment of his siblings’ school fees.

Sunday Israel, 24, said that he worked as an apprentice for two years, but is now a master of himself. He said that when it was time for him to leave, his boss was not too happy about it. He had made so much money for his boss, hence his reluctance to let him go.
According to him, he excelled in posting fake items on websites.
And when it was time to leave, he got his accommodation, slowly extricating himself from his boss. His boss suggested that they should team up, hit money via internet and share the loot. The idea didn’t appeal to Israel; he wanted to be his own master.
His words: “I was very good on the job. Sometimes, I make $200, $300 and $500. When you change the money to naira, it amounts to a lot.”
To Israel, his boss is practically his fairy-tale godfather, who literarily used his magic wand to turn him from a pauper to a financially able person.

Gathering his thoughts, he said that his life-changing story started in 2012 after he met James, his boss. They were introduced and both chatted. They soon agreed to work together, leading to Israel going to live with James. Incidentally, James’ two younger brothers were also living in the same apartment. While one of James’ brothers was schooling, the other was a trader.

Israel said: “I was with them from 2012 to 2013. I finally got my accommodation and bought my first laptop. When I was leaving, in spite of his initial reluctance, my boss threw a send-forth party for me. And then I started running my own business.

Although I’m no longer his apprentice, but I sometimes assist him to, ‘pick money.’ I have a white woman, whom I promised to marry. She used to assist me to collect money from the bank and send it to me. Some of us have bank accounts in USA and UK for receiving money when payment is made for goods we posted.”

Uche Ejim is the breadwinner of his family. He has an elder brother and two younger siblings. His mom and dad are very much alive. Ejim started learning the job when he was in Senior Secondary School (SS1) and today, has three boys working for him. He recently bought a car and got a three-bedroom apartment for his parents and siblings.

Ejim said: “I suffered greatly when I was an apprentice. I learnt the job from our neighbour. That my boss is very rich now. My boss always sends me on errands, and whenever he noticed that I was humble and didn’t complain much, he decided to teach me the “YahooYahoo” business.

We are into dating and posting of goods for people to buy. Posting of goods is the simplest job, because people always buy things online and make payments without seeing the goods. My boss does his posting at midnight. I always wake up to watch what he does until I started posting myself.”
Another apprentice, Segun, said that he had to run away from home because he was not really interested in schooling. Segun is now an apprentice with a rich boss called Chigozie. Segun and other five boys are learning under Chigozie.

Our correspondent also had an interaction with a boss (names withheld).
The boss said: “It’s the situation in the country that pushed many of us into internet fraud. Whenever some of the boys in the community see the manner Yahoo Boys spend money, they naturally wish to be like us. Many young people approach us. They beg us to teach them, that they are interested in learning Yahoo Yahoo because they too want to become rich and take care of their parents.”

He further stated: “Whenever these lads come to us, we give them terms and conditions. One of the conditions is that they should take an oath that they wouldn’t betray us by divulging our secrets.

Another condition is that when they are done with the training, whatever money they make in their transactions, will be shared into two equal parts. Sometimes, it takes six months or one year before an apprentice can ‘graduate.’ But as masters, we don’t show them the whole tricks on how we collect money from victims. The more they grow in the trade, the more they know the tricks by themselves.”
The boss explained that throughout the period the apprentices understudy’s a master, he will sleep in the master’s house and work from 12a.m. to 3a.m.

He said: “This means that whenever we want to collect money, some of our ‘magga’ (victims) send to us, we use them. We use them to avoid being arrested by the police in the bank. We don’t just collect the money easily in bank, we work with some bank officials. They facilitate the withdrawals for us. We used to have an agreement with the bank official on the percentage to give him/her. If we reneged on our agreement, the person will deal with us the next time we come for such a transaction.”

He said: “When I graduated from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, I searched for job for years, without succeeding. But my brother, who dropped out of school suddenly became the breadwinner of our family. That immediately prompted me to follow in his footsteps. I became his apprentice. I learnt the trade from him for six months. I was taught some of the rudiments of how to track a client online. It’s not everyone you see online that you chase.

“Unfortunately, my brother did not teach me everything about online fraud. He said I would learn when I’m developing on the trade. What my brother told me pushed me further to seek for more knowledge. Presently, I have two persons I’m training. I know what we’re doing is not right or legal, but we have to survive.

Moreover, it’s better than armed robbery. My joining the internet fraud is with a purpose. My intention was to take care of my parents and used the proceeds to establish myself. The first money I made was about N2 million. I gave my parents half of the money. I have spent about five years in this business. Cybercrime fraud is difficult.

Sometimes, if you mount pressure on your victim, the person will get angry and refuse to send a dime. With such difficult people, we go extra mile to get what we want from them, even if it requires making sacrifices to appease the gods.

“I must tell you the truth; those of us who are into internet fraud are not generous in giving money. Through internet fraud, I have acquired property in Ogun State. I, however, will quit the business after I get married. I don’t want my children to see me doing it.”
Another boss, who introduced himself as “Scurry”, said that he was trained by his room-mates when he was an undergraduate. Since then, he had been making money.

Scurry said: “When I graduated from school, I did not bother to search for a job; I had already made money. I believe most of us went into internet fraud because our government is not fair to us. There are no jobs in the country. We also have challenges in doing the internet stuff in Nigeria. I travelled to Kenya last year because of the regular power supply in that country. I have also been to Malaysia, South Africa and I’m planning to go to Egypt.

It’s easier to get money through their banks. Due to the recent clamp down on cybercrime operators in Nigeria by EFCC, many of us have moved out of the country to better places, where we can operate without hassles. We do travel to Europe, but we don’t go to Asia countries except Malaysia. We go there as students who want to study.”

A Superintendent of Police (SP), Mr. Sini Omar, Head of Advance Fee Fraud Section of the EFCC, Abuja, reacting to the existence of “Yahoo apprentices”, said: “We’re aware of the trend.”

He explained that EFCC had arrested many. While also disclosing that some were secondary school students, said that there were definitely correctional centres for such young lads.

He said that the apprentices were often recruited because the ‘boss’ has close to 50 victims and couldn’t possibly be speaking with them at the same time. The boss then gets the apprentices, train them and later release some of his victims to them.
Omar said that whenever they arrested such young folks, the EFCC is usually very careful and thorough while investigating them.

He explained that this caution paid off once, when they arrested a young lad in the house of a boss and after quizzing him, they discovered that he just arrived the apartment to join his elder in becoming Yahoo apprentice. Fortunately for him, the lad had never carried out the act before EFCC operatives swooped on the apartment.

Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by StupidInyamiri: 12:28pm On Feb 24, 2019
Atikulated youths

Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by oboy81: 2:30pm On Feb 24, 2019
To all Gees May you people Continue To prosper More than our Heartless Apc/pdp Politicians
Aminu!


Meanwhile
Union Bank Domiciliary Dollar Acc with VISA CARD needed

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Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by Holyson213: 5:40pm On Feb 24, 2019
oboy81:
To all Gees May you people Continue To prosper More than our Heartless Apc/pdp Politicians
Aminu!


Meanwhile
Union Bank Domiciliary Dollar Acc with VISA CARD needed

I have someone looking for the same account in Lagos. Am in Abuja presently. What is the purpose of it. Does the account collect dollars direct or what please
Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by femijay8271(m): 6:14pm On Feb 24, 2019
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Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by freethesheeple(m): 6:23pm On Feb 24, 2019
themomentng:
This sounds incredible, but it is true anyway. ‘Yahoo boys’ are not just growing in number, they now have apprentices that understudy them. This is to ensure continuality of the game. The apprentices after ‘graduating,’ will also have to train another set of apprentices and the circle continues.

Ikechukwu Nnaji is 21-year-old man, born in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State. He hails from Abia State. Nnaji has a disarming smile, and it flashes like a hundred watt bulb, illuminating his handsome face. Nnaji is small in stature, earning him the nickname, ‘Small’ among his friends.
He said that his parents relocated to Abia State five years ago after his father lost his job as a factory worker. His parents agreed to relocate to their village after his mom’s fruit selling business could no longer support them.
While his parents and other siblings prepared to leave Lagos for good, Nnaji’s uncle asked him to come and live with him.

He recalled: “Uncle Aaron is a commercial bus driver with three children. He promised to support me through my secondary school. I finished my secondary school after two years with my uncle. My parents relocated to our hometown. My uncle tried his best possible to pay for my West African Certificate Examination fees (WACE) and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). I was not able to pass my first JAMB examination to study accounting. During that period, things changed for my uncle; everything went from bad to worse. I had no choice than to start caring for myself.”

He said that one day, as he was heading to Mile 2, he saw one of his friends, Mathew. Mathew lives at Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State. Nnaji quickly summed Mathew up with a glance. He noticed that the latter looked and dressed well.
He said: “Mathew was looking good. He held big smartphones. His shirt was expensive. By then I was looking for whatever job to do in order to keep body and soul together. Even in my uncle’s house, life had become very tough and to feed tougher. I often used to go to construction sites to seek menial work. At such sites, I make N1500 for serving bricklayers with sand and cement, which they had mixed. And on some other days, there wouldn’t be work at all.”

He got chatting with Mathew and they quickly exchanged snippets of information about mutual friends. Along the line, Nnaji disclosed his financial constraints, his uncle’s challenges and his search for a job. Mathew listened, slapped Nnaji’s shoulders sympathetically and asked him to meet him at Ikotun.
Excited, Nnaji told his uncle about his chanced meeting with Mathew, and that he was sure of landing a job soon. But Uncle Aaron was not excited, he looked troubled and warned Nnaji to be careful.

Nnaji narrated: “I went to Mathew’s place, where he introduced me to a guy called Eze Ego (King of Money). Mathew said that Eze Ego was looking for boys, who would work for him. Initially, the only thing I heard was that the job has to do with the internet. And then I got to know what it was all about. I heard that a lot of boys were doing it.”

Revealing how yahoo apprentices are recruited and cybercrime operations carried out, Nnaji said that the “big boys” (bosses/old hands), usually place vacancies on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, seeking for apprentices. But only the initiated knows what such posts mean.
He said: “People will see the post, but wouldn’t understand what they were reading. Only those in that line of business understand such posts. Matthew is working for another person, but when he saw the post, he knew what Eze Ago wanted.

And luckily for me, I ran into him on that fateful day. He linked me to Eze Ego. I have been an apprentice to Eze Ego now for two years. He is nice. We’re three boys with Eze Ego; he treats us like a family member. He got married early last year. The wife also likes us.”

Asked the duties of a “Yahoo Apprentice”, Nnaji replied: “I’m the one that used to cook in the house before his wife came. He trusts me because we are from the same state. Also, when he lost his mother, I travelled with him and helped with his mother’s burial. I do wash his car every morning and sometimes wash his clothes.”

He continued: “In the last two years, I have travelled home to see my mother. My boss supports me with money and encourages me to buy things for my mother. He knows my father is late. Yes, my father died after he and mother relocated to our village. My mother used to tell my boss to take care of me. My boss is like an elder brother to me. He provides everything we need in his home, including laptops that we. He also feeds us.”

He explained that in the course of the training, an apprentice will be introduced to different sites on the internet and different cybercrimes.
Listing some of the jobs, Nnaji said: “There are dating sites jobs, bank account hackings, selling of things like cameras, phones, others on the internet.”

Beaming with pride, Nnaji brags: “I was able to learn the job within a short time. My boss soon made me the manager. I made money for him through posting of cameras, phones, pianos, on websites we created. When people see the posts, they will become interested, thinking the items on the websites actually exist.

“They will make payment online, we then generate tracking number for them. They believe that the goods they paid for are real. We will promise to deliver the items within three days. After the three days had elapsed, the clients will call to complain that they had not seen the goods.

We’ll tell them that the Nigerian Customs had impounded their goods that, they need to make a small payment, which our office will use to resolve the issue.

That’s how we’ll tell all sorts of lies until the customer gets frustrated, tired and stops calling. We also have jobs, were we go on dating sites and promise women marriage.”
Asked how fraudsters make money from proposing marriages to strangers, Nnaji laughed and disclosed: “ You simply come up with lies that your mom or dad is sick and that you need a certain amount of money to pay for his/her medical bills.”

He continued: “There are many systems we use. Other boys are doing well for my boss. Some boys had been apprentices to my boss and had left. Some left because they couldn’t meet up or didn’t understand the job.”
On how long an apprentice needs to understudy his boss before starting his own business? Nnaji responded: “I’m already saving towards getting an accommodation and a laptop.”

Explaining how he used to make his own money, while being an apprentice, Nnaji stated: “Sometimes I hit deals without the knowledge of my boss. The proceeds go into my bank account.”
He added: “Sometimes, if we make a good deal, my boss gives us money. It’s a sign of appreciating efforts and commending us for a job well-done. My boss is better than other bosses in this line of work. Most of these bosses, their boys are suffering. Whenever such bosses discover their boys did something behind them, they beat them as they are criminals. They usually send them away empty handed.”

Nnaji said that among all the different ways of cybercrimes that he had studied, only one really appealed to him – that is hacking of people’s accounts.
He said: “That is where you make more money. There’s money there than posting images of non-existent goods on fake websites.”
He said that hacking accounts will fetch him enough money to further his university education and also take care of his mother and siblings. He admitted that he was already responsible for the payment of his siblings’ school fees.

Sunday Israel, 24, said that he worked as an apprentice for two years, but is now a master of himself. He said that when it was time for him to leave, his boss was not too happy about it. He had made so much money for his boss, hence his reluctance to let him go.
According to him, he excelled in posting fake items on websites.
And when it was time to leave, he got his accommodation, slowly extricating himself from his boss. His boss suggested that they should team up, hit money via internet and share the loot. The idea didn’t appeal to Israel; he wanted to be his own master.
His words: “I was very good on the job. Sometimes, I make $200, $300 and $500. When you change the money to naira, it amounts to a lot.”
To Israel, his boss is practically his fairy-tale godfather, who literarily used his magic wand to turn him from a pauper to a financially able person.

Gathering his thoughts, he said that his life-changing story started in 2012 after he met James, his boss. They were introduced and both chatted. They soon agreed to work together, leading to Israel going to live with James. Incidentally, James’ two younger brothers were also living in the same apartment. While one of James’ brothers was schooling, the other was a trader.

Israel said: “I was with them from 2012 to 2013. I finally got my accommodation and bought my first laptop. When I was leaving, in spite of his initial reluctance, my boss threw a send-forth party for me. And then I started running my own business.

Although I’m no longer his apprentice, but I sometimes assist him to, ‘pick money.’ I have a white woman, whom I promised to marry. She used to assist me to collect money from the bank and send it to me. Some of us have bank accounts in USA and UK for receiving money when payment is made for goods we posted.”

Uche Ejim is the breadwinner of his family. He has an elder brother and two younger siblings. His mom and dad are very much alive. Ejim started learning the job when he was in Senior Secondary School (SS1) and today, has three boys working for him. He recently bought a car and got a three-bedroom apartment for his parents and siblings.

Ejim said: “I suffered greatly when I was an apprentice. I learnt the job from our neighbour. That my boss is very rich now. My boss always sends me on errands, and whenever he noticed that I was humble and didn’t complain much, he decided to teach me the “YahooYahoo” business.

We are into dating and posting of goods for people to buy. Posting of goods is the simplest job, because people always buy things online and make payments without seeing the goods. My boss does his posting at midnight. I always wake up to watch what he does until I started posting myself.”
Another apprentice, Segun, said that he had to run away from home because he was not really interested in schooling. Segun is now an apprentice with a rich boss called Chigozie. Segun and other five boys are learning under Chigozie.

Our correspondent also had an interaction with a boss (names withheld).
The boss said: “It’s the situation in the country that pushed many of us into internet fraud. Whenever some of the boys in the community see the manner Yahoo Boys spend money, they naturally wish to be like us. Many young people approach us. They beg us to teach them, that they are interested in learning Yahoo Yahoo because they too want to become rich and take care of their parents.”

He further stated: “Whenever these lads come to us, we give them terms and conditions. One of the conditions is that they should take an oath that they wouldn’t betray us by divulging our secrets.

Another condition is that when they are done with the training, whatever money they make in their transactions, will be shared into two equal parts. Sometimes, it takes six months or one year before an apprentice can ‘graduate.’ But as masters, we don’t show them the whole tricks on how we collect money from victims. The more they grow in the trade, the more they know the tricks by themselves.”
The boss explained that throughout the period the apprentices understudy’s a master, he will sleep in the master’s house and work from 12a.m. to 3a.m.

He said: “This means that whenever we want to collect money, some of our ‘magga’ (victims) send to us, we use them. We use them to avoid being arrested by the police in the bank. We don’t just collect the money easily in bank, we work with some bank officials. They facilitate the withdrawals for us. We used to have an agreement with the bank official on the percentage to give him/her. If we reneged on our agreement, the person will deal with us the next time we come for such a transaction.”

He said: “When I graduated from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, I searched for job for years, without succeeding. But my brother, who dropped out of school suddenly became the breadwinner of our family. That immediately prompted me to follow in his footsteps. I became his apprentice. I learnt the trade from him for six months. I was taught some of the rudiments of how to track a client online. It’s not everyone you see online that you chase.

“Unfortunately, my brother did not teach me everything about online fraud. He said I would learn when I’m developing on the trade. What my brother told me pushed me further to seek for more knowledge. Presently, I have two persons I’m training. I know what we’re doing is not right or legal, but we have to survive.

Moreover, it’s better than armed robbery. My joining the internet fraud is with a purpose. My intention was to take care of my parents and used the proceeds to establish myself. The first money I made was about N2 million. I gave my parents half of the money. I have spent about five years in this business. Cybercrime fraud is difficult.

Sometimes, if you mount pressure on your victim, the person will get angry and refuse to send a dime. With such difficult people, we go extra mile to get what we want from them, even if it requires making sacrifices to appease the gods.

“I must tell you the truth; those of us who are into internet fraud are not generous in giving money. Through internet fraud, I have acquired property in Ogun State. I, however, will quit the business after I get married. I don’t want my children to see me doing it.”
Another boss, who introduced himself as “Scurry”, said that he was trained by his room-mates when he was an undergraduate. Since then, he had been making money.

Scurry said: “When I graduated from school, I did not bother to search for a job; I had already made money. I believe most of us went into internet fraud because our government is not fair to us. There are no jobs in the country. We also have challenges in doing the internet stuff in Nigeria. I travelled to Kenya last year because of the regular power supply in that country. I have also been to Malaysia, South Africa and I’m planning to go to Egypt.

It’s easier to get money through their banks. Due to the recent clamp down on cybercrime operators in Nigeria by EFCC, many of us have moved out of the country to better places, where we can operate without hassles. We do travel to Europe, but we don’t go to Asia countries except Malaysia. We go there as students who want to study.”

A Superintendent of Police (SP), Mr. Sini Omar, Head of Advance Fee Fraud Section of the EFCC, Abuja, reacting to the existence of “Yahoo apprentices”, said: “We’re aware of the trend.”

He explained that EFCC had arrested many. While also disclosing that some were secondary school students, said that there were definitely correctional centres for such young lads.

He said that the apprentices were often recruited because the ‘boss’ has close to 50 victims and couldn’t possibly be speaking with them at the same time. The boss then gets the apprentices, train them and later release some of his victims to them.
Omar said that whenever they arrested such young folks, the EFCC is usually very careful and thorough while investigating them.

He explained that this caution paid off once, when they arrested a young lad in the house of a boss and after quizzing him, they discovered that he just arrived the apartment to join his elder in becoming Yahoo apprentice. Fortunately for him, the lad had never carried out the act before EFCC operatives swooped on the apartment.


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Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by oboy81: 7:15pm On Feb 24, 2019
Holyson213:


I have someone looking for the same account in Lagos. Am in Abuja presently. What is the purpose of it. Does the account collect dollars direct or what please
Yes if you have it mail me Gee levels
Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by Itsmedozie: 10:08pm On Feb 24, 2019
freethesheeple:



this is the best thing i have read this Year...i must drive Toyota spider
G is not easy...Any body Driving or owing Benz telling u its G is a lier...Those people na Pant Ritualist.....?G is not easy...
must you quote everything

Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by Xbursta(m): 1:22am On Feb 25, 2019
The love i have 4 my mum made me not 2 join the G crew and am living without fear now but no pay

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Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by tolugar: 6:39am On Feb 25, 2019
I’ve over 30k stuck in a bank in US.
Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by Dottore: 2:00am On Feb 27, 2019
It doesn't look like this evil trend is coming to an end anytime soon.
The idea of get rich quick and inordinate wants have engulfed the mindset of 4 out of every 5 Nigerian teenager today such that most are willing to go any length to achieve their ambition. May God help us all

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Re: Inside The World Of ‘apprentice Yahoo Boys’ by big7: 10:34am On Feb 27, 2019
Dottore:
It doesn't look like this evil trend is coming to an end anytime soon.
The idea of get rich quick and inordinate wants have engulfed the mindset of 4 out of every 5 Nigerian teenager today such that most are willing to go any length to achieve their ambition. May God help us all

Yes because Nigeria government doesn't look like they are ready to help the and empower the youth.. No job so they created one for themselves

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