He Wanted to Study Business. He Ended Up Romance-Scamming Older Women. He Told Me Everything.
Excerpted from The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, by Carlos Barragán. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2026 by Carlos Barragán. All rights reserved. Richie was born in Ikotun, a crowded …