Current trend and perception of cybercrime: A study of ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ practice in Nigeria

Abstract

The index of cybercrime also known as yahoo yahoo plus in Nigeria as social vice has really reached the acme especially the number of innocent lives involved most especially young girls who are mostly their girlfriends used to make and sustain illicit wealth. The practice has totally been overhaul and this has given a different look to the devilish act in the society at large. To this end, a total of 400 respondents were sampled round Ado-Ekiti using convenience sampling technique. To elicit information, the semi-structured questionnaire was designed in line with the objectives of the study. Findings revealed that 30.5% maintained that poverty is cause of yahoo practice while 3.0% of the respondents said lack of parental care cause yahoo practice. On the economic
status of yahoo actors, 66.0% of the respondents said No, yahoo yahoo people are not from rich home, 55.0% of the respondents said No, the families of yahoo people are not influential at all while 39.5% of the respondents said No, yahoo families are learned. For the family support for yahoo boys, most of the respondents 42.0% strongly agree with the statement that parents of yahoo
people share the same mentality about ill wealth with them while only 25.0% of the respondents strongly agree that yahoo child or people are jealously guided by their parents. The perception of yahoo practice revealed that 47.0% of the respondents strongly agree that Yahoo practice is seen as satanic and devilish act in all communities while 31.0% of the respondents agree that Yahoo
practice has been really modernized and the consequences of yahoo practice showed that 51.5% of the respondents strongly agree that yahoo practice have great repercussion. The study generally recommended that government should rise to its responsibility on the issue of cybercrime in Nigeria via all the financial crime institutions to fight this scourge to the barest minimum.