Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

For our very archetypal WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs volition beryllium joined by the writer of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán.

Barragán, a writer and researcher astatine The New York Times, flew to Lagos to embed himself with a radical of young, hopeless grifters. The relationship helium brings backmost is simply a funny, sad, enraging work astir however the net tin substance heartbreak.

On the Panel

• Kate Knibbs: elder writer astatine WIRED, covering prediction markets, the aboriginal of media, and however AI is changing the internet. She besides leads WIRED Book Club.
• Carlos Barragán: newsman and researcher for The New York Times based successful Madrid. He was formerly a newsman astatine El Confidencial earlier receiving his MFA successful nonfiction penning from Columbia University. The Yahoo Boys is his archetypal book.

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