See Yahoo boy on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Named after the Internet company Yahoo!, whose free e-mail accounts are sometimes used by scammers.",
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"ref": "2009, Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong, Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria, →OCLC:",
"text": "The EFCC has a cyber crimes unit to monitor the activities of internet scam artists, also known as \"Yahoo boys\" (probably because they conduct their activities through their Yahoo e-mail accounts).",
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"(Nigeria) A man who carries out 419 fraud."
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