Fraud is now the order of the day.

First day of February and is already tiring for me, just found out that we won't have electricity at home for some days because someone use his car to knock down one of the poles by accident, Mom said they arrested the person and he will be in police custody till he fixes the pole he broke, that's one of the reasons I wasn't active yesterday and I even slept earlier than expected so I could wake up early for work. 

Went to work and it was something else too, I'm just exhausted right now, today was just like a nightmare to me because my phone was down the whole day until this evening. 

In some of my recent articles, I wrote about how some young boys were caught while burning the head of a young girl in a pot for ritual, just because they want to make quick money and buy cars.

This is not a continuation but another article that is giving young boys anxiety to make money as early as possible.

A few days ago, another set of young boys was caught and they were underage (13, 14, 15 years) according to the news, they were brought from Delta state to Edo state to learn yahoo (internet fraud) to better their lives, I guess that is what they must have told. 

I was just confused reading it, because those boys are supposed to be in school studying, but are not, I don't know if the parents or guardians know about their trip to Benin, cause some of them must have left without telling anyone while some were forced by their parents to go. 

The country is turning into a time bomb and it is just a matter of time before it will explode, kids of now these days are smart and quick to learn, they copy whatever they see so easily and the neighborhood they live in affect them, either positively or negatively, they believe that this is the only way to break out of poverty. 

Yahoo (fraudster) use to be a shameful thing and people say it on a low then, so they won't be caught or looked down on, back then yahoo use to be a crime and offenders will be punished by the law for engaging in such activities. But now, everything has changed hand and the people that are not involved in Internet fraud are the ones being laughed out, they see us like we don't want to break out of poverty, there's no place you will look that you won't see them, If you decide to stay indoors and just be on social media, you will see them showing off what they acquired through fraud, if you decided to just be on WhatsApp, you will most of people in your contact list asking for logins of their internet fraud victims, they are just recruiting more and more people into internet fraud and the reason most people are joining them is because of the old ones hasn't been punishing and they are well respected anywhere they go. 

If they are in the club, the hypeman always hails them as one of their special clients, the bouncers will be giving them respect as if they are working under them.

If they are at birthday parties, the celebrant won't cut the cake without them showing off, the mc will he hailing as if they are the only ones in the party.

If they are in wedding reception or other ceremonies, the people that are celebrating will tell the cameraman and photographers to focus on them so they will feel special. 

If they are not in a family meeting, the meeting would start until they are available, even if they are not the eldest in the family, the family will wait for them to come before anything. 

If they are in some churches, once the pastor calls out for money donation to the church projects, they are usually the ones that come out first and the pastor will be praying for them that more money will come from where they used to make money from. 

The fact is that these people know what they do for a living but they decide to keep mute as long as they are getting their shares from inside, imagine a fraudster bought a car for one pastor and the pastor accepted it when he knows that the person defraud people for a living, but he just pays deaf ears to it and sees it as a gift from God. 

The worst part is that most of these pastors are pushing their members into fraud. In Benin where I live, you will see parents would buy laptops for their children and send them to learn yahoo, yeah, you heard me right, some even go the extra miles to do charm (black magic) for their children to be able to defraud anyone they meet online. 

I don't even know this is ever ending, because it's just getting too much and a lot of people have already made up their mind to join and they are just waiting for someone to teach them, I want out the cause is affecting my head too.

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01-02-2022