Last Updated on September 11, 2023
You’ve probably heard about how to be a yahoo boy but what you missed out on is that this refers to an internet swindler. Well, I’ve put in investigative work to explain how a successful yahoo scam works, including the yahoo dating sites, apps, and formats used.
Note that this investigative post busts what some people do to become a hustler. Just read on to learn all you need to learn to protect your internet identity.
Requirements to Start Yahoo Job
Before one becomes a successful yahoo boy who wants to venture into yahoo-yahoo, there are certain things they need to know and do before starting. Note that a yahoo boy is different from yahoo plus (which generally deals with voodoo).
A good Laptop
This is the first gadget that a swindler must buy or get before they learn how to be a yahoo guy. However, it is not just an ordinary laptop but with high processor speed, high hard disk size, good ram size, and webcam.
A laptop is not only enough, a scammer still needs components that will serve the purpose of the illegal business.
Grammarly Account
In this situation, the average yahoo boy understands the need to have written grammar that is perfect enough since they’d be claiming to reside in the US, Canada, or the UK. Hence, their grammar needs to be perfect including your spelling check. To improve their grammar, yahoo boys resort to using Grammarly.
As you already know, when you’re typing with Grammarly, it fine-tunes your grammar. Now, the yahoo guy also leverages this functionality to make their potential client feel that they are from a country like the US or any related country they mentioned, though it’s a lie.
Dating Apps
I also figured out in my investigation that lots of dating apps yahoo boys are active.on, some of them including OkCupid, eHarmony.com, Dateme.com, livedatematch.com, etc. Active platforms where swindlers can quickly get a client are sites like Tinder and OkCupid.
I have written a comprehensive list of dating apps I busted and how yahoo boys get paying clients from those Apps. So you can Click here to see the list of dating Apps. With this knowledge, you should know how to arm and protect yourself from becoming victimized.
Though many dating sites can make a swindler become a successful yahoo boy as a beginner, some make them even better. Even dating site users contribute to the growth of yahoo scam by not being on the lookout when engaging with profiles they hope to establish a quality relationship.
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
VPN means the Virtual Private Network and its main function in helping a yahoo boy are to hide their IP address. IP address generally reveals one’s location to people, and most websites where scammers can get clients are are able to track users location from their IP. As a result, swindlers subscribe to premium VPNs they use to stay off the radar.
A scammer will typically need to get a Premium VPN to chat with their client. And if they get banned, they simply change the IP address and start a new account.
Create Online Social Media Accounts
A scammer needs to create social media accounts for at least a month before they start the yahoo-yahoo hustle. The major social media accounts they typically register include Twitter and Facebook. Meanwhile, I explained how someone can learn how to create a Facebook account that can’t be blocked to stay anonymous. It turns out swindlers also use the method to fake profiles.
Usually, after chatting with their client on dating websites, they eventually move to social media and also make use of their existing picture as the profile picture to prevent you from getting suspicious.
They can download pictures of just anyone pictures from the internet in the course of becoming a successful yahoo boy. This implies that the face on a profile you believe to be a scammer may not even be the scammer—it could be someone who is deceased or just going along with their daily business, unaware of where their pictures are being used.
Get a Foreign Phone Number
I figured out that every swindler makes it a responsibility to make their clients trust them, and one such is to get a foreign number for them to be chatting on Whatsapp with clients [See how anyone can get a foreign phone number here].
It’s not illegal to get another country’s phone number, what is illegal is if it’s used for illegal activity.
Take, for instance, a scammer who uses a cloned U.S number and tells their client they will be traveling back to South Africa for a business deal with a company. They then make use of a South African number and lie that they have a friend there.
The main reason for this is to make themselves genuine for the main time the scam will hit before changing back to their normal phone number.
Logs & Documents [Bank, Online Shopping Logs, Etc.]
Talking about bank logs, I made thorough research on Sub Reddit to pick up as much info on yahoo scam. I figured out from the thread comments that a scammer will need different logs, depending on the format or game you will use. If they don’t want to buy them, then they can get them from their clients.
Asides from bank logs, and online shopping logs, there are many other documents they can also need like a driver’s license, SSNs, and credit card details. These are confidential information, so a legit internet user must always be on the lookout to protect their SSN, bank logins, etc., that a yahoo boy could be looking to obtain.
For more information, you can visit most of the links below to access individual tutorial pages where I investigated and published:
- How scammers Collect a Driving License from a client.
- How scammers collect SSN from a Client for Yahoo [Formats Included]
These links should help you with how they get most of the documents they need, as well as tip you on self-protection online.
Make Sure You play this video where the format is being discussed:
Popular Hustles For Yahoo Boys
Now it might seem complex, but there are several types of yahoo-yahoo scams that are popular and swindlers can try while trying to become a yahoo boy. They usually have to choose the one that will fit their abilities and that is easier for them. Perhaps, this is because one can’t be a jack of all trades and master of none.
In this section, I’ll be listing the various yahoo scams a scammer can do, so read and stay informed as this is meant for the general public.
Wire-Wire
Wire-Wire means electronic wire transfer, it’s a yahoo boy-related term. What it simply means is being able to track money that is being sent to someone and divert the money to their personal use. Yahoo boys think it is very hard to do, but most of them succeed in it. Meanwhile, I did my investigation and found out more about the wire format. I published this as an eye-opener to keep everyone informed and on the lookout.
Dating Billing
According to Reddit and other communities, this is one of the simplest forms of yahoo for those who want to learn how to be a yahoo boy. Anybody can start dating and start collecting money or even gift cards. With the dating format, a swindler just has to register on a dating site and start to find any rich woman or man to date. It is also known as a romance scam.
Once you (the potential victim) fall in love with the scammer, they can then bill you (if you’re not careful). Below is an attached video showing how to bill clients you are dating. I think this video is informative enough and worth it to watch to see how swindlers go about it.
Credit Card
The credit card format involves collecting clients’ credit card details and using them to go shopping online. The scammer will use tricks to collect your credit card details from you, so be careful when anyone is asking for your card details. I have written this publication to expose how credit card format works to the general public. Go through the steps carefully to stay informed.
Inheritance Format
From a scammer’s perspective in inheritance format, “you can pretend to be the child of a rich man in a local country, whom the father left so much inheritance with. Then you start looking for someone to help you claim your inheritance and two of you will share the money.” Read about inheritance format here where I have explicitly gone into the rabbit hole to reveal how the scam works and how people can protect themselves.
There are other local scams that one can use to cash out money as a yahoo boy, but they must typically learn all of them first before they start to practice and they include:
Instagram format
Sugar daddy format
Sugar Daddy Catfish
Grant Format
This link will show you how to start with grant formats, following swindlers perspective.
How to Start Yahoo Yahoo
Another reason why people dive into the yahoo ritual is that they want money overnight. This tutorial exposes how scammers get rich overnight as a beginner in the yahoo scam.
It emphasizes how to be a yahoo boy but it is your responsibility to be careful when dealing with strangers online. This is how to become a successful yahoo boy and how the scam works:
Steps to become a yahoo boy outlined
Just to make sure I get to the root of how young people venture into the yahoo scam, I painstakingly went through user comments across various online communities. Below is a scammer’s point of view based on the discoveries regarding becoming a yahoo boy:
Choose the Format you want to use
Having a format you want to use for your scam is the first thing you should think about before getting started. “It will help you have an understanding of the clients you need to target,” according to one of the users.
Without knowing the format you want to use, you won’t have an idea of how to set up your profile online for effective conversion. Here shows how to “How to Chat with a New Client Yahoo?”
Let’s say you want to use the grant format, then you should set up your online profile to look like a government official. Just look for any government official, clone their names, and write a good bio like:
My name is Jan*t Y*llen and I am the Secretary-General of the United States Department of Treasury. I head this department as a solution to managing the finances of the federal government.
“With the bio, you can make people pay for grants, then you cash out that way”, says sUbZero22, a Quora user.
Gather the Tools you Need for your Format
So when you’ve figured out the format you’d want to use for your job, the next step would be gathering the necessary tools you’d use to execute it. This is how you learn to be a yahoo boy – just by being strategic with your actions.
So if you want to go into dating, then you will need tools like;
- Dating site logs
- VPN
- Dating format
- Profile Pictures of the same person
- Social Media Profiles
You will need to set all these up before you start bombing clients. So should in case you meet a ready client, you won’t start running helter-skelter, trying to get formats to complete your job.
As you can see, the requirements above scammers use are pretty simple and are common apps that every internet user makes use of daily. These things are too always expected, so be on the lookout 24/7.
Find a Client
Investigating further, I came across the aspect of finding a client. My findings show that this is the most important part because, without a client, there won’t be any need for format and there won’t be anybody to bill.
There are many places to find clients, and the simplest places are dating sites. Luckily, there are lots of dating sites where you can find at least one client to bomb, says another Quora user “Annonn99”.
Meanwhile:
- This post shows you how to get a rich client on Facebook
- Click here to see how to get clients on Instagram
Ask your clients for more chat on A Secured Platform.
So, here’s an interesting comment I noted on one of Sub Reddit’s threads:
“We all know that Facebook will block any new account, and most dating sites will also block you after a while. This means that it is not safe to allow your relationship with your client to continue on any of those sites.”
“I have explained how you can create a “Fake Facebook account and don’t get blocked”, it is working 100%, but we don’t have to leave anything to chance. Since you are using any of the top formats that will make your clients follow you, then you have to do the best thing to secure your clients.”—CaptainFunds.
How do they then do it?
The answer is “Google Hangout” or “WhatsApp”.
Google Hangout works like the “Yahoo Messenger” of old, and this is what makes it a better option for the average con man.
Since hustlers get most of their clients from dating sites and Facebook where they can ban their account anytime, they have to be quick to move their clients out of there. In a typical situation like this, you notice that someone you’ve been chatting with on a dating site suddenly proposes moving away from the platform.
“One of the best ways to secure your clients and make sure you always communicate with them is to move them to Google Hangout and continue your chat with them there,” adds an anonymous commenter on a public Instagram post.
Google hangout or WhatsApp with a foreign number just seems the best way they can chat and receive messages immediately.
Convince your Client and Make them Trust You
When a swindler wants to learn how to be a yahoo boy, they must start learning how to make clients trust them. Getting their clients to trust them is simple if just by following the rules. I recently investigated a format known as Trust Format.
So if you want to know more about the trust format I busted, click here to read about Trust Format and how they can apply it to their clients.
After they have gained the trust of client, then they can easily bill them using any of the formats they have at their disposal. One of the best formats remains Gold Format for Yahoo, according to my collective findings online.
What is the yahoo boy format?
“Yahoo boy formats are the ideas that you need to employ to collect money from your client.’ Most of a swindler’s clients will be so smart that they can tell lies from start. To learn how to be a yahoo boy, there are Yahoo boy formats that yahoo boys need to know. I will list some of them here for you to learn to protect yourself online.
- A businessman in a foreign country.
- A rich man in a foreign country that was kidnapped.
- A soldier that is in a foreign country
- A real lover that needs money to survive a sickness.
It is not a must that they make use of the above formats. Thus, they can even create their own based on the level of connection or relationship between them and their clients.
Advanced Yahoo Boy Formats
There’s also an advanced yahoo boy format one should note. Explaining it from con men’s perspective, below is what you need to know:
Get your client’s account details
The swindler will make sure the chemistry of the chat between them and the client is very strong before requesting credit card details. If possible, they can just request your account details to send them money. Once you send them money, they cash out and never get back to you, especially if the one-time transfer was huge. It could be via gift card, wire transfer, or even Cash App.
Be the First to Send a Gift
Some can create a lasting relationship first and won’t press for anything in the beginning. They’ll just be your friend you could talk with and little by little, they start to manipulate you to have feelings for them.
After some time, they would request your address to surprise you, and then later order a flower from Amazon and send it to you to win you over. The result is that the swindler would also expect you to reciprocate their actions, except that you could be giving them multiple times what they gave you. Sometimes, money can be requested via western union or Payoneer.
Once they have a client’s credit card details, they can make you trust and like them to the point of trusting your bank details to them, which is when you lose the money to them.
Learn smarter ways to make money on yahoo
These are the summary steps I’ve investigated that people follow to learn how to be a yahoo boy:
- Open a dating account with any foreign site
- Create a Female account as a black girl – White men love black girls whom they feel they can manipulate
- Tell clients that one is from South Africa – they would love the swindler better that way
- Video call client using your girlfriend – inform her before time
- Don’t ask for money till after about 3 months of building a reliable relationship
Yahoo Guys Sites to Visit
These are some of the yahoo sites to get good clients that you need to know about. This way, if you’re a member or user of the platform, you’d then be more careful with the profiles you interact with. Below are some of the ones I have discovered in the course of the research.
- OkCupid
- Tinder
- Badoo
- Eurochat
- Facebook Groups
- eHarmony
Yahoo boys Apps
These are the apps that will help a yahoo boy to complete their job as a professional scammer. Below are a number of them the general public needs to be aware of:
- Cloning App
- Grammarly
- Dating Apps – you can download them via the Google play store
- VPN (Virtual private network)
- Chrome (incognito mode) or Firefox (private browsing)
Conclusion
For those who want to learn how to be a yahoo boy, this is illegal and unethical. It also makes the internet unsafe and clients are getting scared and sometimes confused using the internet and dating apps.
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