Nbote:
Naija Yahoo boys dont hack na, na jus to send corporate and romance mails... Real hackers go afta databases and d companies housing d information...

Xisnin:
Those aren't petty Yahoo boys.
They are Chinese spy agents.

madridguy:
The so called spy agents many times dip hand inside America bank of reserve.

African are generally noise makers.

Xisnin:

I am not aware of any African country with effective international intelligence activity.
African spies are mostly good at arresting and intimidating the opposition.

BTW, those Chinese spies are directly under the supervision of the Chinese military.
They aren't interested in money but information about possible American citizens that
can be easily compromised or bought over for technology exchange.

Lush100:
Without trying to glorify these set of people,
All thieves cannot have the same interests.

Chinese thieves want info
Nigerian thieves want money.
Chinese backed by their state.
Nigerian thieves backed by person seeing that generally Nigerian provide for themselves without government.

What I'm saying in a nutshell us both are bad.
It doesn't make Nigeria thieves any less or better.
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No meaningful comparison can be made between the two.
"Both are bad" is too generic.

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I am think and a question came to my mind is why are both attacking the US.

Why not Japanese for example or Brazilian or Tanzania etc

Hedonisco:


I tell you. Imagine backing the name date of birth, social security number and other identifying info of HALF of American citizens. The value of this info in terms of the money that can be made from it is probably hundreds of billions of dollars.

Hushpuppi and Co are apparently kindergartens.

Xisnin:

Calling Chinese spies Yahoo boys is like calling soldiers murderers.

China also has petty Yahoo boys doing business and romance scams for a living but the OP
made it sound as if they are the same with Chinese intelligence.
Chinese Yahoo boys are arrested and thrown into jail, nobody is backing them.

Also, it is a common lie that Nigerians provide for themselves when they are one of the most dependent
on government.

techmo:



What an insult to compare hackers and top level programmers to Yahoo boys

I heard one gist, many Yahoo boys in Lagos had to fly in a Russian hacker, pay him hundreds of millions, lodged him in Eko hotels and suites, carried best oloshos for him just to hack one major US billionaire Client

After the hacking and setting up RDP for them, they ask him to wait around to share the loot with them, but the guy told them his work was done, he is a hacker, and not involved in scam and cashing out


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careytommy37:
These are Chinese state backed hackers. They actually work for the government and have total protection as long as they remain in China for the rest of their lives..
The info they gathered for spying

Hedonisco:


I tell you. Imagine backing the name date of birth, social security number and other identifying info of HALF of American citizens. The value of this info in terms of the money that can be made from it is probably hundreds of billions of dollars.

Hushpuppi and Co are apparently kindergartens.

Hedonisco:


Stop glorifying stupidity, miscomprehension, envious frustration, and hypocrisy. Now back off.

techmo:



What an insult to compare Blackhat, redhat hackers and top level programmers to Yahoo boys

I heard one gist, many Yahoo boys in Lagos had to fly in a Russian hacker, pay him hundreds of millions, lodged him at Eko hotels and suites, carried best oloshos for him just to hack one major US billionaire Client

After the hacking and setting up of RDP for them, they ask him to wait around to share the loot with them, but the guy told them his work was done, he is a paid hacker, and not involved in scam and cashing out


US, Russia, Korea (North and South) , China are not to be mistaken for uneducated dumb Nigerian yahoo boys

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