Tracking down a romance scammer in Nigeria

In The News by dconlon@irishtimes.com

Sep 1, 202629:08News & Politics

This episode was originally published in June 2026. When Carlos Barragán discovered his mother was the victim of romance fraud, he flew to Lagos to find the con man – and found the Yahoo Boys, young men whose job it is t...

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