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摘要

Everyone will have received one: an email from a mysterious strangerin Nigeria in possession of vast wealth and needing your bank account details. Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola, a sociologist at Obafemi Awolowo University in lle-lfe, Nigeria, spent six months earning the trust of these so-called Yahoo Boys and interviewed 40 of them. The interviews reveal they are usually undergraduates and regularly pay bribes to the police and even the organisation tasked with stopping them. Perhaps more surprisingly, many use voodoo too.