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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Spanish police have arrested 310 people in Malaga, Spain, in connection with a €100 million lottery scam run by Nigerian 419 gangs. Authorities raided 166 homes throughout southern Spain, seizing €218,000, 2,000 mobile phones, 327 computers, and 165 fax machines. The gangs are also responsible for the well-known 419 e-mail scams which claim to come from a former dictator soliciting help in laundering money, with 20,00 victims in 45 countries. The arrests, the end result of an investigation begun in 2003, could lead to a drop in spam e-mails.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/scammers_nabbed/