Have you ever asked yourself why many young Nigerians (male and female)
are visiting/relocating to Malaysia? We all call them Yahoo Boys and
wonder how they make their money. There have been several speculations
that they sell their kidney for 5m naira but we actually don’t want to
believe that story because they all would have been dead after selling
their two kidneys to maintain the kind of life they live. After a
concluded research we are convinced on wider knowledge of how they make
money in Malaysia.
HOW YOUNG NIGERIANS MAKE MILLIONS FROM PROSTITUTION AND INTERNET FRAUD IN MALAYSIA
To know Malaysia is to love Malaysia. That is the slogan for Asian
country, Malaysia which has become a bubbling and bursting melting pot
of races and religions all over the world as millions of tourists visit
the country yearly because of its enormous tourist attractions and
colourful festivals.
A country with diverse culture, one of the key attractions beyond the
beaches is the towering skyscrapers looking down upon wooden houses
built on stilts and five star hotels meters away from the ancient reefs.
Kaula Lumpur, the capital city is well known to be a place of all round
entertainment where people love to socialize and celebrate. With a
population of 28 million, Malaysia has of lately become the ideal place
for young Nigerians seeking greener pastures.
On a daily basis hundreds of Nigerians relocates to Malaysia and to a
lay man the question has always been what’s so special about Malaysia
that a lot of young Nigerians prefer that place to Europe and America.
We gathered that the reason many people are going to Malaysia is because
it is easier to make money there than Europe and America whose economy
recently suffered setback due to the global economy crunch. At the
moment there are over 500,000 Nigerians living in Malaysia including
children of rich Nigerians who are schooling in Malaysia. The children
of rich Nigerians (mostly Hausa) live large in Nilai an outskirts of
Kaula Lumpur and attend Lagenda College of the best schools while other
Nigerians live in Kepong.
Why many Nigerians are relocating to Malaysia has recently become a
subject of discussion in the society. We gathered that most of the guys
in Malaysia are either into drug business or internet fraud. While the
ladies are into prostitution. For the ladies, they mostly enter the
country with a student Visa and after they are granted their one year
residential permit, they ply the trade which earns them an income of
nothing less than $10,000 monthly. Countries like Bostwana, Kenya,
Uganda and Tanzanian dominate the prostitution business but Nigerians
play at the highest level and rather than hang out at clubs for
customers, they have agents that love-vendor them for rich foreigners
who visit Malaysia for business or Holiday.
Sources disclosed that the recent influx of young Nigerian girls into
Malaysia is alarming and this is because they make good money there.
“In Malaysia there are about 3 women whose business is strictly to link
the girls with the rich guys. You know Malaysia is just about 4 hours
flight from Australia, so there are quite a lot of Caucasians who visit
here on a regular basis. Also are some Americans and European who come
to Malaysia a lot because of the tourist attraction and while they are
here, they make do with our girls for company. They get paid @ least
$500 per night and the lucky ones can make as much as $1000 per night.
The very smart ones are also into Yahoo business and all they need to do
is lay their hands on the credit card number of the white guy and the
rest is history” Since Nigerians hardly get employed in Malaysia, most
of the guys are either into drug or fraud business unlike Europe and
America, Malaysians are a bit laid back and they are yet to realise the
extent of to internet fraud and one of the reasons it is easy to make
money in Malaysia is because a lot of foreigners go there and they make
use of nothing but their credit card so getting information of their
credit card is very easy. There are several types of internet fraud
including telemarketing fraud, fraud alert, Nigerian letter or 419
fraud, impersonation/identity fraud, advance fee scheme, health
insurance and redemption/bond fraud but in Malaysia the most common one
is the credit card fraud. Nigerians connect with the Malaysians who work
in a store, supermarket or shopping mall. The retailer (Malaysian) gets
hold of customer’s credit card and swipe it under the counter where a
machine containing a mobile phone SIM card receives the card’s
information and transmits it to a Nigerian for reproduction. In some
cases, they buy information from hackers on the internet for as much as
$1000 and clone/duplicate it into another plastic with a cloning
machine. After cloning the card, they put their own identity on it and
go to the store to buy stuffs like laptops or mobile phones which they
send back to Nigeria for sale. In most cases, they pose as business men
buying Malaysian products in wholesale and bring it into Nigeria as
imported goods to sell and that is one of the reasons we have a lot of
Malaysian products in Nigeria. Since most of their victims are in
America, the time difference allows them to spend as much as possible
depending on the card limit before the owner gets an SMS alert from
his/her financial institution. If they happen to get all the details of
their victim such as social security no, date of birth and mother’s
maiden name, they can break a bank if there is enough fund in the credit
card. How? All they have to do is call the bank and give them all the
details claiming they are the rightful owner of the card and since they
are in Malaysia on holiday they would want to raise their daily limit to
as much as $10,000″ sources disclosed.
Besides the internet fraud another way Nigerians make money in Malaysia
is drug trafficking. Despite the fact that there is death penalty on
whoever is caught with drugs in Malaysia Nigerians still take the risk
of engaging themselves in drug business. Quite a lot of Nigerians are in
Malaysia prison awaiting trial while some have been sentenced to death
through hanging. An instance is a Nigerian mother of 5 sentenced to
death in 2005 after refusing to overturn her drug trafficking
conviction. Also is a 29 years old Nigerian was arrested in march 2010
for trafficking drugs worth RM230,000 ($60,000) and recently was the
case of a young Igbo man arrested for drug trafficking worth $40,000.
Sources disclosed that, “Drug is the most lucrative business in
Malaysia. “Some people export it from here but that is quite dangerous
but for those that can do that they are either very desperate or have
spiritual backing they believe will always work for them. You don’t have
to take drugs to Malaysia, all you have to do is have the right
connection and be at the right place at the right time. If things work
out right one can make as much as $30000 per deal.
Right now, so many Yahoo boys who got broke during the recession have since relocated to Malaysia.
We learnt that securing a visa to Malaysia used to be very easy until
lately when the Government of the country put an embargo on the number
of Nigerians that should be allowed into the country on a daily basis.
Apparently, there are two kinds of visa to Malaysia and they are student
and social visa. The student visa is the easiest to get but takes about
2 months to finalize the documents. To secure a student visa, all one
needs is a medical report , photocopy of passport pages and O’level
result which will be sent to the school of choice. The school will then
forward the documents to Immigration office for approval and after being
approved the immigration approval and letter of offer will be sent back
to the applicant after a sum of $800 must have been paid. The applicant
will now go to the embassy in Abuja, pay a sum #2000 and being given a
social visa with an indication below that he/she is billed to study in
his her university of choice. A maximum of 3 months visa will be issued
and if not used within the period admission is forfeited. On arrival at
the point of entry only the school authority can clear the applicant in
and this is strictly based on the fact that he/she has the school fee
with him/her. The applicant will then be stamped to remain in the
country for 2 weeks after which the applicant will submit his/her
passport to the school authority which will then process a cover letter
that will guaranty one year residential permit. The popular schools
Nigerians attend there are Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Islamic
College, Segi University Rima University and City University of Science
and Technology.
Based on the fact that the student visa takes about 8 weeks, many
Nigerians prefer to go for the social visa which takes less than 7 days.
To secure the social visa few documents are needed and at the point of
entry one must have a BTA of nothing less than $2500. The BTA used to be
$1000 but based on the high number of Nigerians that storm the country
on a daily basis it was increased. Many Nigerians who enter with a
social visa later go to one of the schools with necessary documents to
secure an admission and with that they get a cover letter to remain in
the country for one year.”
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