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The Serious Organized Crime Agency (it's for real) led a multi-national operation — 60 arrests in the Netherlands, 16 in Nigeria, a few in the UK and one in Canada. Times Online reports that many 419 scammers aren't loners, but rather organized crime "gangs," often run by West African ex-pats in the Netherlands. Mock their bad English if you must, but it's a living. One government estimate says email scammers con seven billion dollars' worth of cash out of the Brits alone, every year. That's 23 times more than USA for Africa collected.