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Key facts
- For their first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán
- If you'd like to start following along, you can catch up on past weeks discussions, and sign up for WIRED Book Club here
- Barragán, a journalist and researcher at The New York Times, flew to Lagos to embed himself with a group of young, desperate grifters
- In the meantime, check out past livestreams on how AI is changing work, big tech and the military, and more
Summary
For their first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán. Barragán, a journalist and researcher at The New York Times, flew to Lagos to embed himself with a group of young, desperate grifters. Carlos Barragán: reporter and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was formerly a reporter at El Confidencial before receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. This livestream is reserved as a subscriber benefit.