Luxury cars and a millionaire lifestyle, the evil Yahoo Boys gang targeting children across Britain and the world By John Paul Breslin For The Scottish Mail On Sunday Published: 13:20 EDT, 27 July 2024 | Updated: 13:20 EDT, 27 July 2024 e-mail View comments Videos online show them posing in front of luxury cars or decked out in designer clothes, flashing piles of money. They look - to all intents and purposes - like modern-day millionaires. However, the individuals bragging about their wealth and gaudy possessions online are said to have made their riches through the manipulation, extortion and torment of people - many of them children - around the globe.
Welcome to the world of the Yahoo Boys - a nebulous group of gangs and nefarious individuals based out of Nigeria that create fake online personas and use them to target victims. How many crooks involved is impossible to tell but just this week Meta shut down 63,000 accounts on its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook that were connected to the Yahoo Boys. Members of the Yahoo Boys gang pose beside their luxury cars Meanwhile, police raids in Nigeria have at times seen as many as 37 individuals arrested in a single day.
The suspects have been made to pose for police photographs, standing in front of an array of luxury vehicles they are accused of buying with their ill-gotten gains. In each of their hands they held either a laptop or a mobile phone - the tools of the illicit trade. The Yahoo Boys are part of a worldw.