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Towards human dignity and the internet: The cybercrime (yahoo yahoo) phenomenon in Nigeria

Olayinka AkanleSARChI Social Policy, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa;Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, NigeriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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J. O. AdesinaSARChI Social Policy, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
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E. P. AkarahDepartment of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Pages 213-220 | Published online: 22 Jun 2016

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Penny Bicol Cartwright. (2023) “Yahoo-yahoos and Twitter kweens”: Internet technologies in contemporary Nigerian fiction. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 59:5, pages 660-673.
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Richard Abayomi Aborisade. (2023) Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes. Deviant Behavior 44:7, pages 1102-1120.
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Charles T. Orjiakor, Chibuikem G. Ndiwe, Prince Anwanabasi & Blessing N. Onyekachi. (2022) How do internet fraudsters think? A qualitative examination of pro-criminal attitudes and cognitions among internet fraudsters in Nigeria. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 33:3, pages 428-444.
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Suleman Lazarus, Mark Button & Afe Adogame. (2022) Advantageous comparison: using Twitter responses to understand similarities between cybercriminals (“Yahoo Boys”) and politicians (“Yahoo men”). Heliyon 8:11, pages e11142.
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Suleman Lazarus & Mark Button. (2022) Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 25:8, pages 504-511.
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Tim Hall, Ben Sanders, Mamadou Bah, Owen King & Edward Wigley. (2020) Economic geographies of the illegal: the multiscalar production of cybercrime. Trends in Organized Crime 24:2, pages 282-307.
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Victoria Wang, Harrison Nnaji & Jeyong Jung. (2020) Internet banking in Nigeria: Cyber security breaches, practices and capability. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 62, pages 100415.
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Suleman Lazarus & Geoffrey U. Okolorie. (2019) The bifurcation of the Nigerian cybercriminals: Narratives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) agents. Telematics and Informatics 40, pages 14-26.
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Suleman Lazarus. (2019) Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth. Religions 10:3, pages 146.
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