BY RITA OYIBOKA
Suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, have reportedly murdered two men in Ughelli, Delta State, following a dispute over a failed transaction.
A social media personality, Unclenasco, disclosed the incident in a video posted on Facebook, revealing that the girlfriend of one of the victims was also abducted, stripped naked, tied up, and dumped in the bush, but she managed to escape alive.
According to his narration, the tragic chain of events began when some Yahoo Boys allegedly lost money sent through a middleman, known in street parlance as an Aza man, a person who helps receive or move proceeds from online scams.
“There’s a family where the man is a house agent and the wife sells food. They have four daughters and a son. One of the daughters was dating this Aza man. Some Yahoo Boys had scammed some money and used the Aza man to receive it.
‘’When the money hit his account, he started acting strange, claiming the money got lost in a transaction, pretending to be mentally unstable, and stopped picking up their calls,” Unclenasco explained.
The fraudsters, angry over the supposed loss, reportedly began tracking the Aza man. Information later reached them that he was visiting his girlfriend’s family house in Ughelli.
“As he (the Aza man) came out of the house with his girlfriend to enter his car, they ambushed him with guns, tied him up, and forced both of them into the car. The girl’s sisters saw it happen and ran to inform their father who came out with a cutlass to challenge them, but they shot him dead on the spot and drove away,” Unclenasco narrated.
The suspects allegedly drove the Aza man into the bush, where they killed him. The girlfriend, who was reportedly tied up and possibly assaulted, was abandoned in the forest but later crawled out and was rescued by soldiers on patrol.
Unclenasco, while condemning the act, warned young Nigerians to steer clear of online fraud, stressing that it no longer pays as it once did. “Most of these boys are no longer doing pure Yahoo. They are into rituals, using charms for wealth and paying with their lives, sanity, or families,” he said.
