formatboy is a mysterious influencer who teaches his audience how to orchestrate online scams
he has a collective of menacing west african fraudsters known as yahoo boys in his audience who use his lessons to target americans and extract their life savings
often based in nigeria, the yahoo boys build elaborate relationships with their victims over weeks or months before striking
there is a culture of celebrating the yahoo boys and their lavish lifestyles which encourages teenagers to join the community and try their hand at scamming as a hustle
formatboy claims to have stopped scamming himself and now only teaches methods and provides tools for others to scam as a way to morally justify his work
he is actively tracked by cybersecurity researchers but continues to operate on various social media channels under multiple aliases.
