Score one for the good guys:
The Australian: 'Nigerian fraudster' syndicate smashed [October 31, 2003]: "
'Nigerian fraudster' syndicate smashed
By Ian Gerard
October 31, 2003
It starts with a request for $2000 and the promise of untold wealth, but for many gullible victims it ends with the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In what is thought to be a world first, NSW police have cracked what they allege was a multi-million-dollar international 'Nigerian fraud' syndicate operating out of Sydney. Officers seized nine houses in two countries, five cars, several bank accounts and arrested a 39-year-old man suspected of tricking hundreds of people from Australia and overseas out of millions.
The commander of the NSW police Assets Confiscation Unit, Jennifer Thommeny, said the alleged scam was no different to 'Nigerian' emails, which have been circulated for years. "