US Crackdown on Nigeria’s ‘Yahoo boys’ In Canada, USA and South Africa

Date: 22-05-2014 9:41 am (10 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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The United States has dealt a major crackdown on Nigeria’s Yahoo gang, with arrests of 16 people in several US cities, Canada and South Africa.
Most of the people arrested were Nigerians.
The suspects were arrested on charges that they took part in a fraud that used stolen information to get money and goods and then ship them to South Africa and Nigeria, according to documents unsealed in federal court in Gulfport, Mississippi Tuesday.
The charges by the U.S. Attorney’s office against Oluyitan Olagoke of Brooklyn, New York, say he and others were part of the Yahoo Boys, a Nigerian gang. The charges and a related indictment against 17 other people say that the gang would buy bank account information from hackers, steal money, and then send cash or goods to Africa.
The document said people were arrested in South Africa, Canada, California, Wisconsin, Indiana and New York.
Of the arrests, 10 occurred in South Africa, mostly of Nigerian citizens. Those defendants are supposed to be extradited to Gulfport to face charges. None of the defendants appeared to yet have attorneys.
Authorities said in a news release that additional federal charges were filed in Atlanta and Charleston, South Carolina. The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Mississippi could not be reached for comment late Tuesday.
The accused would try, for example, to take over bank or stock brokerage accounts, draining them of money by sending checks, wire transfers, or withdrawing money at automated tellers. Sometimes the money would be used to buy goods such as cellphones. More than $60,000 from one brokerage account alone was taken, the charges against Olagoke said. Court papers did not allege a total amount taken by the ring.
Often, unsuspecting third parties would be enlisted through work-at-home scams or fake online romances into sending the stolen money or fraudulently purchased goods to South Africa or Nigeria. In the indictment, authorities allege the proceeds were laundered “though a complex re-shipping network of both complicit and unwitting individuals recruited through various internet scams.”
Officials said investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been investigating the schemes since October 2011, when they were contacted by a Mississippi woman who had been a victim. The indictment cited seven Mississippi residents who had been victims.


Posted: at 22-05-2014 09:41 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- schmit at 22-05-2014 10:08 AM (10 years ago)
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Yahoo boys still dey?
Posted: at 22-05-2014 10:08 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- gmarley at 22-05-2014 10:43 AM (10 years ago)
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Posted: at 22-05-2014 10:43 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- winace at 22-05-2014 11:04 AM (10 years ago)
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No comment
Posted: at 22-05-2014 11:04 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- daveobahon at 22-05-2014 11:06 AM (10 years ago)
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na wah 4 ds yahoo boys
Posted: at 22-05-2014 11:06 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Topsylucas at 22-05-2014 11:21 AM (10 years ago)
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This virus has eaten deep in2 the nigerian system. So they are even abroad? The name "nigeria" has truly expired. Its time we break 2 form our country so that I won't feel ashamed when presenting my passport whenever I travel out.
Posted: at 22-05-2014 11:21 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- chicco77 at 22-05-2014 11:38 AM (10 years ago)
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 Grin Grin Grin Grin
Posted: at 22-05-2014 11:38 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- lufad at 22-05-2014 12:20 PM (10 years ago)
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Hmmmm....
Posted: at 22-05-2014 12:20 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- Bankable at 22-05-2014 01:06 PM (10 years ago)
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Yahoo boy no laptop.... The government and NPF are also yahoo boys.
Posted: at 22-05-2014 01:06 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Reignest at 22-05-2014 01:18 PM (10 years ago)
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9ja too hard. our government na master of yahoo
Posted: at 22-05-2014 01:18 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- proly at 22-05-2014 02:09 PM (10 years ago)
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Nija i hail ooooh
Posted: at 22-05-2014 02:09 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- Sniper101 at 22-05-2014 02:52 PM (10 years ago)
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 Na 9ja Babes dey cause all dese tins sha;  wen a guy along d street whistle out 2 a Babe she won't even bother 2 turn around n know who's calling. But if a guy wit a ride happens to horn 4 d same girl along d street she wil most definately turn around 2c who's wanting 2talk 2her#    Make una no dey conderm dese guys here joor      (...me I no dey blame dem at all at all...).  Na d country n its corrupt politicians una suppose put d blame on
Posted: at 22-05-2014 02:52 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Larry28 at 22-05-2014 04:10 PM (10 years ago)
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Bad market
Posted: at 22-05-2014 04:10 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- osamabinladin at 22-05-2014 05:15 PM (10 years ago)
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 Sad
Posted: at 22-05-2014 05:15 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- okilo101 at 22-05-2014 05:53 PM (10 years ago)
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Dem cross
Posted: at 22-05-2014 05:53 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- christianity at 22-05-2014 06:09 PM (10 years ago)
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naija i hail
Posted: at 22-05-2014 06:09 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- dareper at 22-05-2014 06:44 PM (10 years ago)
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Bad market
Posted: at 22-05-2014 06:44 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- berriebunch at 22-05-2014 10:21 PM (10 years ago)
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Na US dem take snap this pic?
Posted: at 22-05-2014 10:21 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- Wanneka at 22-05-2014 11:08 PM (10 years ago)
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hahahah i no believe say na US dey stay snap the picss, See both Police and Senators, Hon, Ministers, Everyone in Nigeria are yahoo. Yahoo boys don't even cash the amount politicians made away with, abeg make i hear word... Yahoo Boys i hail ohh na bailable offence
Posted: at 22-05-2014 11:08 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- okudelia4u at 23-05-2014 01:44 AM (10 years ago)
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taa, every humanbeing has a free will
you can say no and make something out of ur self by scholing.
Posted: at 23-05-2014 01:44 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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