Yahoo boys is a name majorly used by Nigeria's online scammers, who use various online platforms to con people, in this case, online users are the victims. They, disguise themselves to be genuine who need your help or they can help you depending on the situation. The Yahoo boys rarely live alone, the work as a group in a secluded building with everyone specializing in what one does best.
For one to be a Yahoo boys member, being intelligent is fundamental since the yahoo boys job is to con online users hence, majority of the yahoo boys are learned people from the universities who would want a well-paying job, but since there is high unemployment, being a yahoo boys partner becomes a major option since it promises a large amount of income.
The Yahoo boys are the 'business community' while the victims are the 'clients.' The Yahoo boys scammers operate in a building where the noise is engulfed. Since yahoo boys are elites as a majority of them are degree holders, yahoo boys know how to psychologically man oeuvre with the victims understanding until they source out the money from their 'clients pocket'
If a yahoo boys scammer is selling romance using yahoo dating site, he would start engaging the 'client' who is a victim in this case, by seducing them online which would take quite some time, The victims are majorly outside Nigeria since many victims are from the US, Australia the time would come when the yahoo boys scammer would ask to visit his 'client' and the client will be obliged to send money to cater for the visa application and the cost for flight. The moment money is sent, yahoo boys scammer receives the money and starts to man oeuvre till the 'lover' gives up on the deal, and the yahoo boys 'businessman' pockets the money.
In another situation, a yahoo boys scammer may pretend to be doing business such as running car dealer company and the yahoo boys scammer would create an online advertising platform, open a fake account and start conning the victims. since they work as a team, they specialize according to one's smartness in doing it, one would be in doing paper works producing documents while there is another one good in the communication with the 'client' and the deals sounds so sweet until the victim channels in the cash yahoo boys account then the scammer disappears that the reality comes out that it was just a scam from the notorious yahoo boys.
There are the yahoo boys who pretend to be addicts to drugs or even sodomy and would appeal for foreign help, yahoo boys would do all it takes to show how desperately they need to change as well as how remorseful they are, which will move the heart of the philanthropist, and finally would send money for rehabilitation programme and the yahoo boys pockets the Ransome.
The Yahoo boys live lavishly and proud of what they do though, some of the yahoo boys confess that it requires for one not to be sober in order to do such scamming since some of the victims end up committing suicide. What the yahoo boys are doing is against the international cybercrimes law that protects online users against manipulation.