| International Standard Book Number |
9780374609306
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374609306
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
364.163
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| Personal Name |
Barraga´n, Carlos (Reporter), author.
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| Title Statement |
The Yahoo Boys : love, deception, and the real lives of Nigeria's romance scammers / Carlos Barraga´n.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Love, deception, and the real lives of Nigeria's romance scammers
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026
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| Imprint |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
287 pages ; 22 cm
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Searching for my mother's scammer -- Biggy (I) -- Chibuike (I) -- Azeez (I) -- Richie and Trisha -- Biggy (II) -- Chibuike (II) -- Azeez (II) -- Trisha -- Biggy and Miracle -- Chibuike (III) -- Azeez (III).
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| Summary, Etc. |
When his mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, the journalist Carlos Barraga´n came face to face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria, he set off on a journey to Lagos to find his mother's scammer, where he stumbled on a much bigger story. There, in a crowded and impoverished neighborhood in the midst of Africa's largest city, he encountered thousands of young men engaged in romance scamming. They call themselves "Yahoo Boys," and each year they catfish millions of dollars from lonely victims overseas, building a dizzying local economy from their phones ... Some Yahoo Boys attain the status of folk heroes, buying houses and cars with the money they make, while others become dependent on drugs and "cash out" -- successfully scam a victim -- only to lose it all. Through the Yahoo Boys' twisting fortunes, Barraga´n discovers the psychological tactics they perfect, the brutal economic realities that drive them, and the moral dilemmas they confront.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Swindlers and swindling Nigeria.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Computer crimes Africa.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Online dating.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
fraud.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Internet fraud.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Criminalite´ informatique Afrique.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Rencontres amoureuses sur Internet.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fraude informatique.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fraude.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
TRUE CRIME / Cybercrime.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Nigeria Conditions e´conomiques 21e sie`cle.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Nigeria Economic conditions 21st century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Re´cits criminels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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