The video of a young Lagos boy begging to learn ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ (fraud, 419) has gone viral on social media. He wants to help his parents out of poverty and unfortunately, he believes Yahoo Yahoo is the only way out. Heartbreaking video of young Lagos boy begging to learn ‘Yahoo Yahoo’.
According to an Instagram user BM_Mundo, who shared the story, the boy had approached the lady who shared his story on Instagram to teach him yahoo.
He wrote: “This young boy thinks yahoo is the only way to survive, somebody help! Wonders shall never end o. What’s happening in this country?
Heartbreaking video of young Lagos boy begging to learn ‘Yahoo Yahoo’
So this young boy came into my studio today and told my girl he’s looking for someone to teach him yahoo. He met her outside and she told him ‘not here’. I now asked her who was that and what he wanted, she told me and I told her to go an call him back for me. Children of now needs reorientation mehn.”
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Yahoo Yahoo seems to be a ‘big boys’ format in Nigeria. Instead of getting a legal job, many young people in Nigeria dream of becoming a yahoo boy – a very fast way to make money by duping people on the internet. For Nigerian law, yahoo boys are people who carry out 419 fraud.
The IG user shared the video of his conversation with the boy. Watch the video below…
Too bad. How many more of this would we see? Indeed a lot of boys have made it this way but definitely, the long hands of the law always catches up with them, sooner or later.
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