Yahoo Boys Should Not Be Jailed
yahoo boys are people who carry out 419 fraud through the internet. Yahoo boys are named so after one of the hugest Internet companies on the planet – Yahoo!, because many scammers often use its free e-mail accounts to commit their crimes.Experts in Internet security also call yahoo boys all those people who commit various shady deals with the help of Internet. Being afraid of unemployment, many young Nigerians consider Internet fraud as an original exit in such a country like Nigeria.
Internet fraud is organized along areas of specialization to make a success of the deviant behavior. Fraudsters study the security network of online transactions to decide where to pitch their tents. Quick monetary reward is what "yahoo-boys" have in mind. They use different schemes. Sending fraudulent messages to online dating websites and social network sites were reported to be low-risk – but high-profit – areas of specialization. Another scam that is popular with the "yahoo boys" is phishing, a technique used to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details. the "yahoo boys" are also big on ATM fraud. They may stand at ATM galleries to feign assistance to vulnerable users – illiterates, the old and the physically challenged – and later swap cards to defraud them. The fraudsters carry out their attacks mostly on weekends and mostly outside the state where the account is domiciled.
Bank are mostlynon-functional on weekends. This means victims will be unable to ask their banks to stop illegal transactions on their accounts until Monday morning, when the banks open for business, even though they receive debit alerts over the weekend.
When these boys are caught, most are imprisoned. For example, Federal High Court in Kaduna State sentenced Imonina Kingsley, of the University of Ilorin, to 20 years' imprisonment. He defrauded an Australian of $1,000 by presenting himself as a gay person from the Republic of Benin, also in April 2012, Olasaidi Dare, an undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago-Iwoye, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for an attempt to obtain money under false pretenses in a cyber-café.
There are so many other examples of Yahoo Boys that have been jailed but I tend not to agree with this method because these boys come back to this same act after being released. I'll prefer a correctional center where Yahoo Boys can be trained on some skill acquisitions even if it takes developing their I.T skills to further help the government in combating crimes in relation to the field. Other specialization can also be developed so they can become responsible citizen who make money legally to meet their needs.
But this has to be done under reliable scrutiny to ensure it has effect of propelling responsibility out of the Yahoo Boys.
Internet fraud is organized along areas of specialization to make a success of the deviant behavior. Fraudsters study the security network of online transactions to decide where to pitch their tents. Quick monetary reward is what "yahoo-boys" have in mind. They use different schemes. Sending fraudulent messages to online dating websites and social network sites were reported to be low-risk – but high-profit – areas of specialization. Another scam that is popular with the "yahoo boys" is phishing, a technique used to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details. the "yahoo boys" are also big on ATM fraud. They may stand at ATM galleries to feign assistance to vulnerable users – illiterates, the old and the physically challenged – and later swap cards to defraud them. The fraudsters carry out their attacks mostly on weekends and mostly outside the state where the account is domiciled.
Bank are mostlynon-functional on weekends. This means victims will be unable to ask their banks to stop illegal transactions on their accounts until Monday morning, when the banks open for business, even though they receive debit alerts over the weekend.
When these boys are caught, most are imprisoned. For example, Federal High Court in Kaduna State sentenced Imonina Kingsley, of the University of Ilorin, to 20 years' imprisonment. He defrauded an Australian of $1,000 by presenting himself as a gay person from the Republic of Benin, also in April 2012, Olasaidi Dare, an undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago-Iwoye, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for an attempt to obtain money under false pretenses in a cyber-café.
There are so many other examples of Yahoo Boys that have been jailed but I tend not to agree with this method because these boys come back to this same act after being released. I'll prefer a correctional center where Yahoo Boys can be trained on some skill acquisitions even if it takes developing their I.T skills to further help the government in combating crimes in relation to the field. Other specialization can also be developed so they can become responsible citizen who make money legally to meet their needs.
But this has to be done under reliable scrutiny to ensure it has effect of propelling responsibility out of the Yahoo Boys.
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