Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barragán, a New York Times journalist, embedded with Nigerian romance scammers to expose how the internet fuels heartbreak. Subscribers can submit questions and access the event.

For our very first WIRED Book Club https://www.wired.com/newsletter/bookclub livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374609306?lv=shuf&ascsubtag=6a187520931e039d612e0957&asc refurl=https://www.wired.com/story/wired-book-club-excerpt-the-yahoo-boys-carlos-barragan/&tag=w050b-20&asc campaign=6a187520931e039d612e0957&asc source=verso&channelId=1&plpRedirect=mhFallback , 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. The account he brings back is a funny, sad, enraging read about how the internet can fuel heartbreak. senior writer at WIRED, covering prediction markets, the future of media, and how AI is changing the internet. She also leads Kate Knibbs https://www.wired.com/author/kate-knibbs/ : WIRED Book Club https://www.wired.com/newsletter/bookclub .: 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. Carlos Barragán The Yahoo Boys is his first book. Submit your burning questions about the book in the comments section below. The event will be streamed right here, so bookmark this page and mark your calendar to return on July 16 at 12pm ET / 9am PT . This livestream is reserved as a subscriber benefit. For subscribers who are not able to join, a replay of the livestream will be available after the event. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe now https://www.wired.com/v2/offers/wira01026?source=Site 0 HCL WIR EDIT HARDCODED 0 LIVESTREAM 2025 ZZ to get access to this livestream, plus full access to WIRED. If you'd like to start following along, you can catch up on past weeks discussions https://www.wired.com/tag/wired-book-club/ , and sign up for WIRED Book Club here https://www.wired.com/newsletter/bookclub . In the meantime, check out past livestreams https://www.wired.com/tag/webinar/ on how AI is changing work https://www.wired.com/story/livestream-ai-is-changing-your-job-now-what/ , big tech and the military https://www.wired.com/story/livestream-the-war-machine/ , and more.