Jessica Loudis / Bloomberg:
A review of The Yahoo Boys, a high-profile book about four online scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam and the local impact of this trade.— Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” have industrialized romance scams, reflecting and distorting the culture of modern hustle in the face of collapsing economic prospects.
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