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In recent weeks, Nigerians’ attention has once again shone on the activities of internet fraudsters, known as ‘Yahoo Boys’ following the recent EFCC arrests around a popular Lagos nightclub.
While the legend of these scammers is not new the Nigerian society, the brazen nature with which Yahoo Boys splurge their ill-gotten wealth has become a spectacle of sorts, and media personality /businessman Noble Igwe remarked, most of the glamorous individuals in the posh Lekki/Victoria Island neighbourhoods are in fact, scammers. Many of these highflyers hide under the guise of being socialites who work hard and play harder- going by the logic of singer 9ice, who was once accused of glorifying and praising scammers in his music.
Worse still is the lengths to which these individuals reportedly go to acquire their fortune. In the last decade, media reports have told of desperate people who sell…
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