The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos by Carlos Barragán | Instant PDF Download (No Physical Book)

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From journalist Carlos Barragán, a reporter and researcher for The New York Times, comes a gripping debut of immersive narrative nonfiction about the young men behind one of the world’s most notorious internet scams.

When Barragán’s mother fell for an online “American soldier” who promised to send gold bars to their home in Madrid, he set out for Lagos, Nigeria, to find the scammer who had targeted her. What he discovered was far bigger than one con artist. He found a sleepless, fast-moving subculture of young men known as the Yahoo Boys, driven by poverty, ambition, music, and hope, who catfish lonely people in the US and Europe and have built an entire economy from their phones.

Following four scammers in Ikotun, one of Lagos’s poorest neighborhoods, Barragán reveals the psychological tactics they perfect, the desperation that pushes them, and the moral dilemmas they face. With empathy for both the scammers and their victims, he shows how loneliness in the West and poverty in Nigeria can be two sides of the same screen.

Eye-opening, surprising, and deeply human, this is a true story about love, deception, and survival in the digital age.

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• True crime and investigative journalism
• Immersive narrative nonfiction
• Internet culture and online scams
• Stories about modern Africa and Lagos
• Psychology and human behavior
• Eye-opening, character-driven reportage

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