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Online fraud in Nigeria
Internet fraud is rampant in Nigeria. Residents here will easily narrate about the so-called ‘Yahoo boys’ – a term given to scammers who mostly use Yahoo services to target their victims, an advance-fee scam commonly known as the Nigerian Prince Scam and most recently the business email compromise targeting companies, its employees, customers or partners. *Zeinny remembers vividly how she lost her life savings through one such scam.
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