The Yahoo Boys
A Year with the Love Scammers of Lagos
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2026
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-3996-3219-5 (ISBN)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-3996-3219-5 (ISBN)
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An extraordinary narrative nonfiction debut immerses the reader in the lives of a quintessential 21st-century villain, the Nigerian romance fraudster
When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barragán got to witness the painful aftermath of online romance fraud for himself. He set off on a journey to find his mother's scammer, but what he discovered was much bigger: a world of young Nigerian men who drag themselves out of destitution by catfishing lonely hearts in the US and Europe, in the process building a dizzying local economy from their phones.
THE YAHOO BOYS follows four scammers in the Lagos neighborhood of Ikotun. Through their twisting fortunes, Barragán discovers the psychological tactics they perfect, the economic desperation that drives them, and the moral dilemmas they face. A work of radical empathy, this astonishing debut reveals the human face behind a global phenomenon, and shows how isolation in the West and poverty in Nigeria are just two sides of the same screen.
When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barragán got to witness the painful aftermath of online romance fraud for himself. He set off on a journey to find his mother's scammer, but what he discovered was much bigger: a world of young Nigerian men who drag themselves out of destitution by catfishing lonely hearts in the US and Europe, in the process building a dizzying local economy from their phones.
THE YAHOO BOYS follows four scammers in the Lagos neighborhood of Ikotun. Through their twisting fortunes, Barragán discovers the psychological tactics they perfect, the economic desperation that drives them, and the moral dilemmas they face. A work of radical empathy, this astonishing debut reveals the human face behind a global phenomenon, and shows how isolation in the West and poverty in Nigeria are just two sides of the same screen.
Carlos Barragán is a journalist from Spain. He lives in London. THE YAHOO BOYS is his first book.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3996-3219-1 / 1399632191 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3996-3219-5 / 9781399632195 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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