Most people who are not familiar with online engagement cannot distinguish between Yahoo Boys and professional Freelancers. These Freelancers also known as Remote Works are paid by foreign firms either on successful completion of job assignment or placed on a monthly salary basis.
Some are engaged on part or full-time basis depending on the nature of assignment, while some are working as Commission Agents like us.
Those who are ignorant of this type of engagement would regard them as "Yahoo Boys" too based on the fact that they do not leave their houses in the morning and going to work to return in the evening and do not have office apartment to show up but are living a very comfortable lifestyle that attracks suspicion, jealousy and enviness within their neighborhood who would identify them as "Yahoo Boys" as online transaction looks very strange to many people like the POS transactions outside the banking hall as an innovation in the banking industry.
Their job activities are carried out online using their Laptops, Android phones and Desk Top computers depending on the nature of job assignment.
If interrogated by Security Agents based on suspicion, they can reveal the overseas company they are working for and the online platform they registered to secure the job and other verifiable information regarding their online engagement.
Also, if it is a business entity, they can reveal every verifiable legal documents such as business registration Certificate and including the foreign firm or institution for verification through the Nigerian Embassy Officials in their country of origin as to ensure a legitimate business engagement.
But that is not the case with the Yahoo Boys who keep their identity secret for fear of being arrested by Security Agents. They operate in different forms with their computers as well use for scamming; but the most common among them is by indicating huge amount of money as a bait to collect the little you have and from several others. Sometimes, use Agents who go about collecting money from others with the promise that the millions are coming and very soon you will be rich enough to come out of poverty and also spread similar messages via SMS, WhatsApp and email.
They do not have specific product or service to offer as that would require official registration requirement from the Government. So they do their best to break every Government protocol as to hide their identity in carrying out their fraudulent activities.
Sometimes they call you on phone to collect your bank details to empty your bank account pretending to be your bank officer. They use several methods to carry on their fradulent activities under the vail of secrecy quite unlike the online professional Freelancers and as Remote Workers who never hide their identity.
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