Story: My life as a Yahoo Boy By iphekitan - Season 1 - Episode 8

8 years ago

Story: My life as a Yahoo Boy By iphekitan - Season 1 - Episode 8

Part 8

Getting to my house, I hurried to check if pman was home, but i didn’t see him, so I knew he must have gone out, and mumsy Don travel two days before, I just drop the big in my room and headed out to wait for bro ola.

After five minutes, bros never show, until I heard the siren of those police vehicle, I was like chai hope dey never catch this bro.
When the siren sound died down, I guessed they were just passing by, na so bro ola just show from the left side of the road, I was like, hmmmmn the bros must have hide when he heard the siren. Which he later confirmed to me..

I sha brought bro ola to my room, God willing there was like then. Na so bro ola said, “straight to business, I don’t have much time to waste”

I just switch on the system, bro ola con start his lecturing, naxo I just listened with rap attention.

He introduced me to various sites, showed me various format, showed me his previous Chats so I can learn one or two things.

Bro ola : The Freestyle trick is the simplest and it is common amongst starters. Applying Freestyle trick, all you need to do is to open an account in any of the popular dating sites and look for someone who falls in love with you, afterwards he or she starts paying your bills sending hard currency.

Also, one of the major tricks, is Over Payment.

The Over Payment trick requires a lot of processes. The Yahoo Boy who uses this trick pretends to be a prospective buyer, by logging into any of the popular internet classified sites, after which he offers the person who he’s buying from cheque as a mode of payment. In this case, the Yahoo Boys have a way of persuading the seller to send the excess after issuing an over payment cheque.

With this trick, a Yahoo Boy can buy goods worth 1000 USD and issue a cheque of 5000 USD.

What the Yahoo Boy is interested in is not the goods he claimed to be interested in but the excess money that will be sent to him after the cheque must have been cashed.

Another trick used by Yahoo Boys to swindle foreigners is called Come And Carry Format.

The Come And Carry trick has been in existence for so many years. It is also called Next Of Kin.

With this trick, the scammer claims to be a banker and he tells his victim that a huge sum of money in his care, is by a late businessman and hanging in his bank and the person who will get the money is the Next Of Kin to the late business man.

Thereafter, the scammer tells the victims that he will need some certain amount of money to get the necessary documents to claim the money.

Apartments trick is another popular format to use in scamming. With this trick, the fraudsters claim to be agents by placing adverts of apartments for lease on the internet. They go as far as uploading pictures of posh apartments available for lease and tell whoever is interested to make payment to a particular account. They have used this trick to swindle many foreigners over the years.

Another trick these to use is transfer. With this trick, they look for a foreigner whose account can take huge amount of money and they persuade him or her to help in receiving a large amount of money in his or her account. All they do here is to do on-line transfer which is usually done by some I.T. Gurus who hack into other people’s account to achieve the trick.

Though the fraud transfer will be detected few days after the transaction but the Yahoo Boy would have gotten his own share from the transferred money before then.

In Nigeria, the trend is more dangerous. Once a foreigner knows you are a Nigerian, he finds it difficult doing business with you. Even if you claim not to be a Nigerian, the whoever you are browsing with will know where you are located by checking your I.P.

This has made YY difficult for we nigerians. Thats why most yahoo boys do travel out.

I just sat there picking everything he was saying.

He showed me many thing mehn, bro ola made me understand it was illegal and he show me how to be smart and careful.

He left my place around 6:30 pm on that fateful Sunday.

Lol that day marked a turning point in my life, iyalaya 2go scaming, I don upgrade mehn.

To be continued