The news on the BBC on Thursday that the Spanish police had arrested 87 Nigerians in and around Madrid, suspected of defrauding thousands of people in the United States and Europe of over 20 million euros (US$31,807,929.76 or $6.4 billion) in a postal and internet lottery scam, was astounding because it should not have happened.
This swindle and variations of it have been around for a long time and there have been many warnings issued about it.
