There's always an incoherent answer whenever you ask any Nigerian youth involved in internet scam why they have refuse to stop the act despite the wide police crackdowns, moral ostracization from the society, or perhaps after they achieve financial stability and have generated sufficient funds to maintain solvency.
The answer is always incoherent, vain and unreasonable. The only conclusion one can come to is that most yahoo boys have overtime come to enjoy the thrills.

The thrill they get from earning free money, from the false egoistic feeling of power derived from what they perceive as their ability to influence another human to do their biddings - the pseudo believe that they are smart, the superiority feeling they get from non yahoo folks who cowardly rever them at every given chance, from the status mindedness that their continuous days of frivolousness in clubs, on ladies and material things has caused them. Or the worse of them, various blindsided views they have of what they do that seek to justify their act which they unfortunately and recklessly believe as truth.

At this point it's safe to say every successful Internet fraudster in Nigeria suffers a great deal of mental disorder.

Truly, the recipient of these internet scam, mostly old white citizen of foreign nations are, at a stretchy length, unfortunate victims. It is disheartening what they suffer at the hands of scammers, potentially causing a great deal of material loss and emotional trauma leading to long lasting damage and sometimes even death.
But I'm focusing here on the yahoo boys, self inflicted victims who have no idea what the mental effect of their actions are having on theirselves and those around them.

Money has always been a means to an end, so does every other material things. But not for yahoo boys, it is quite prevalent among them that whenever they become successful i.e earn so much, it becomes difficult to focus or shift to other career path. What they began as a means to an end would later and uncontrollably become the end itself.

Some whose excuse was to earn enough for school would later lose interest in schooling, those who did it for business would start a business venture but won't be able to sustain it without the continuous cash flow from their yahoo side hustle.
There's always a reason to go back to that life.

Tons of life and purpose has been wasted due to youth deviating from their original career path and focusing solely on what they meant to be a means to an end. This explains why there are so many Nigerians youths with lack of purpose but heavy pockets. They frequent clubs, hooked on drugs, and lives a pointless and purposeless life with all the funds they have while driving endlessly to earn more through the same unscrupulous means.

Every successful Internet fraudster in nigeria are delusional. Nigeria Internet scam or yahoo as it is popular named in Nigeria is the greatest brain drain the nation is facing right now.

Youths who are suppose to be on a career path and become useful to the nation are hugely distracted, wasting potentials, deluding their own mind by constantly engaging in faulty thinking processes that only inspire destructive creativity. Just like the ouroboros, they bite their own tail by invading their own mind to search for the most crooked way to scam their victim and by so doing mentally harming themselves.

This bring me back to the spiritual component of the whole thing. There's a darkness above our youths, cutting them off their potentials, stripping them off their inheritance by luring them, enticing them with promise of fulfilment through yahoo yahoo. It is a lie. It is a never ending shackle that destroys. It is trans generational, moving from one blood generation to another if it's not controlled and stopped.

You ever wonder why fraud, violence, drug abuse, sexual immorality are the big bane of our Nigerian youths? It's because it is demonic 4 in 1 package that go hand in hand. The world of darkness is doing everything it can to ruin lives and send plenty to hell. And as always, Satan always offer his gift of evil wrapped in coverings of sweetness. No wonder it is now a notion these days that to be a successful yahoo boys in naija, you have to have a strong baba who can provide you with effective soaps. Open your eyes. These are demonic agents that are striping you of your worthiness. They are after your life. Stop trading your virtue, your shine, your usefulness, for mere sands.

Interesting 🧻

Interesting

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Anybody no want hustle make him tbe waste his time na where hushpuppi today

Apt!

A word is enough for the wise or as Yorubas say, "abo oro la nso fun omoluabi, to ba de inu e, a di odindi."
I hope the lazy and greedy folks understand that they're only mortgaging their future.

Good analysis. Thanks @OP