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By Emman Ovuakporie
Apparently sensing that a gold fish has no hiding place, scammers otherwise known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ boys in Nigeria are fast relocating to rural areas of Abuja to beat security operatives.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that living in mega estates in Abuja has become the albatross of the scammers as they now relocate to the hinterlands.
A probe into this development by TNG revealed that mega estates in Galadimawa, Gwarimpa, Maitama and Asokoro are no longer safe havens for them because of their flashy lifestyles.
According to a source privy to this development, the scammers who are mainly University graduates, school dropouts now live in sattelite towns and outskirts of FCT.
He said “the heat is too much in the town these days and police men always empty them once they are caught.
“You know they operate in small small groups of three to four in one flat all knowing the codes to use once an alarm is raised.
“They now live in places like Dutse inside oh, Bwari, Gwagwalada, some even moved to secluded places in Suleija in Niger State and Kaduna road.
“But their biggest challenge is the inability to lie low because they all have same trade signals.
“Their generators operate 24hours non-stop and once neighbours notice this signal tongues start wagging the next thing they will be reported.
“I live in Kaduna road, some moved into our neighborhood and within one week they were all arrested, their generators, laptops were carted away by security operatives.
“The operatives left their girlfriends behind but within one week they were released and their properties released.
“So as you can see you can’t stop this young men because of the culture of settlement,’ he added.