Nigerians continue to send thousands of false lottery letters from Andalucía and the Mediterranean Coast.

Nigerians continue to send thousands of false lottery letters from Andalucía and the Mediterranean Coast.The Nilo case led to the arrest of 310 people and the searching of 180 different premises, when the Málaga group was sending between 15,000 and 20,000 letters a day. But even now the police say that they are arresting a new group every two or three weeks.The United States Department of Justice estimates that there have been 2.8 million victims in the States who have paid out some 753 million €. Many of the victims pensioners or this disabled, according to the United States Government.In total some 100 million € is defrauded from more than 50 countries every year.This week the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has called for 168 of those arrested in the Nilo case to be processed, but such a court case would be a complicated one. More than 100 of those arrested have already been expelled from Spain, while the rest are on bail, and for each victim known to the police there are an estimated 100 who are not, all of them living abroad.

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