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The Yahoo Boys - Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers Statistics swim in the crystal-clear watersBy: Carlos Barragn Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026 06 09 An astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face When his mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, the journalist Carlos Barragn came face to face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After