Yahoo Boys - Carlos Barragan

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026Named a Most Anticipated Summer Read by USA Today and People"What [Barragan has] produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny, devastating, wildly intimate, and righteous without veering into moralism." -Kate Knibbs, Wired (Book Club Pick)"I have found few books lately as immediately compelling as Barragan's, and as a reader, I could not put it down . . . The Yahoo Boys is a tour-de-force." -Jon Lee AndersonAn astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they faceWhen his mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, the journalist Carlos Barragan came face to face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria, he set off on a journey to Lagos to find his mother's scammer, where he stumbled on a much bigger story. There, in a crowded and impoverished neighborhood in the midst of Africa's largest city, he encountered thousands of young men engaged in romance scamming. They call themselves "Yahoo Boys," and each year they catfish millions of dollars from lonely victims overseas, building a dizzying local economy from their phones.In this astonishing work of immersion journalism, Barragan takes us inside the lives of four of the Yahoo Boys of Lagos. We meet Biggy and Chibuike, each
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