"Yahoo boy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after the Internet company Yahoo!, whose free e-mail accounts are sometimes used by scammers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Yahoo boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Yahoo boy"
      },
      "expansion": "Yahoo boy (plural Yahoo boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Nigerian English",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
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            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who carries out 419 fraud."
      ],
      "id": "en-Yahoo_boy-en-noun-sDiWL3CQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "419 fraud",
          "419 fraud"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Nigeria) A man who carries out 419 fraud."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "yahoo-yahoo boy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Yahoo!"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Yahoo boy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after the Internet company Yahoo!, whose free e-mail accounts are sometimes used by scammers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Yahoo boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Yahoo boy"
      },
      "expansion": "Yahoo boy (plural Yahoo boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Nigerian English",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ/3 syllables",
        "en:Crime"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who carries out 419 fraud."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "419 fraud",
          "419 fraud"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Nigeria) A man who carries out 419 fraud."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Nigeria"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Yahoo!"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "yahoo-yahoo boy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Yahoo boy"
}