YAHOO Boys Invade FaceBook To Scam People

If you think the last has been heard about the advance fee internet fraudsters known as Yahoo…Yahoo boys, then you are far from the truth. The scam boys we heard have now formed a new strategy by using Facebook to carry out their illicit act.

Unlike the Yahoo! Mail hitherto being used by this group to dupe people, Facebook is their new haven. Facebook is originally meant to make friends and share ideas. But Yahoo boys are seeing it as another opportunity to advance their trade using it to take advantage of innocent ‘Facebook friends’.  Before now, scamming in Nigeria was the most common type. The messages would generally claim that your help was needed to access a large sum of money, usually millions of dollars, which in fact do not exist.

The messages are an open gambit designed to draw potential victims deeper into the scam. Aside that, money transfer request is another scheme they use in scamming people. With the rising of internet banking, it is now easier to transfer money across the world in minutes. Unfortunately, this has also meant an increase in the number and types of scams Yahoo boys engage in. They trick you into sending your hard-earned cash to overseas scammers, albeit unknowingly. There is also the inheritance scam whereby the scammer would tell you that you are entitled  to claim a large inheritance from a distant relative or wealthy benefactor who has died overseas.

Now, the Facebook scam is called dating scam.

Besides just asking for money for their studies, sick relatives and others, the scammers also upload fake but attractive photos; in most cases, of white people. They pretend to be foreign specialists working in Nigeria or Ghana (usually originally from US and UK, but it may also be Canada, Australia or any other European country). After establishing intimate correspondences with you, falling in love and maybe even send a couple of cheap presents, they will then deploy the follow-up plan. They will tell you that when they were on their way to meet you, they got robbed, beaten, and landed in the hospital, asking you as their only contact, to come to their aid by forwarding money for their medical bills.

Another thing they say is that, their employer pays them with money order, and they can’t cash them in Nigeria. They will then send you the supposed money order and ask you to deposit them into your bank account and then wire the money to them via Western Union. Now, once you cash them or deposit them into your account, the money order will come back to you after few weeks as fraudulent and you will be responsible for paying back the money to the bank and sometimes even charged for passing counterfeit instrument.  The warning is, everyone should just be watchful and be very careful with who they get acquainted with on Facebook as the Yahoo boys have now made the social media their new haven.

Kidney Failure Threat... Music Stars Panic, Renounce Smoking And Drinking Over OJB’s Sickness

Ladies, heavy alcohol consumption, drugs and high rate of smoking are tantamount to the Nigerian music industry.  We are not surprised about this as most Nigerian artistes indulge in them. What, however, amazes many is that these artistes find joy engaging in these habits heavily. Some music fans will tell you that they can’t boast of any hip-hop artiste who doesn’t smoke or consumes liquor to stimulate energy on stage. Though, they usually look calm and innocent, sources say the way they embraced stick in the corner of their houses speaks volume of their interest. In this story, SHOKISHOMBOLO NEWS lists the artistes who people believe fall into this category.

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2Face

“Who say 2face no dey smoke, come Festac come see film”. This is what those that are close to 2Face will tell you if you try to tell them that Innocent Idibia, the African Queen crooner is truly innocent.

General Pype

General Pype is one of the wave-making artistes of the moment. The former Storm Records label member has proved his worth on the musical scene. His musical talent cuts across. But what many say spoils the Obalende boy is his smoking habit. Oh! He smokes and he doesn’t hide it.    

MI

Rapper, Jude Abaga and well-known as MI, we gathered, is also a chimney before he was diagnosed of asthma. Asthma is a partial seizure of breath of the victim. Asthma patients are mostly affected with choked or contaminated air from cigarettes.      

9ice

In the Nigerian music industry, he is worthy of emulation being the rocky pillar behind the success of the fast-rising act, Seriki, but what baffles people is the way the one-time favourite artiste of music lovers smokes. In fact, he’s not ashamed to dedicate a track for the illegal weed (Igbo) in his first album. Aside his heavy smoking habit, we learnt he also drinks a lot.

Wizkid

He is young, talented and his music career continues to soar despite the fact that he dumped his former boss, Bank W. This talented kid was said to have been caught severally at Elegushi Beach smoking with friends and drinking heavily to the extent that he often times could not walk home without aid.

Timaya

Everyone knows about Timaya’s deep smoking habit but what they don’t know, perhaps, is when the acclaimed Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa will put an end to the risky act. Though, he is being conscious of where he smokes, friends close to him say he’s a heavy smoker and drunkard.   

Terry G.

Terry G does not need introduction in the industry of weed smoking as the Ganja farmer always portrays himself as a diehard smoker. His picture has been posted on social media severally where he was caught in the act. If you are his friend that only drinks occasionally, don’t try to collect or sip Terry G’s drink as you will blame yourself. We were told that, he usually blends it with weed (Igbo). He will tell you that, smoking is the ginger that gingers his swagger. Some people even tag him a ‘Great Ganjarist’     

2Shotz

Nigerian Rapper, William Orioha aka 2Shotz, has been smoking and drinking for so long especially when he goes for shows outside Lagos. In fact, there was a show we learnt he was billed to perform but after allegedly drinking to stupor, he slept off and could not mount the stage until the following day.

W4

Festac based artiste, Adewale Adepoju a.k.a W4, is also a heavy smoker.  This Osun State-born Fela’s protégé has severally been spotted puffing himself heavily.

Don Jazzy

It was like a celebration of smoke for Nigerian topmost producer, Don Jazzy recently at Oriental Hotel, Lagos. Such was one of Don Jazzy’s smoking sessions, though.  Aside smoking, he is also said to love drinking alcohol heavily.