The US experts have charged 80 individuals, "the majority of whom are Nigerian nationals", with taking an interest in a scheme to take a large number of dollars, examiners state.
They are blamed for utilizing business email extortion plans and sentiment tricks to con unfortunate casualties - a significant number of them older.
Police have so far captured 14 suspects over the US, 11 in Los Angeles alone.
Others are believed to be in Nigeria and specialists there state they will participate with US.
Investigators state it is one of the "biggest instances of its sort in US history".
The FBI examination is a noteworthy advance to disturb criminal systems, US Attorney Nick Hanna said.
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"This case is a piece of our continuous endeavors to shield Americans from false online plans and to bring to equity the individuals who go after American natives and organizations," he included.
The FBI began researching the case in 2016 out of a solitary ledger yet it later reached out to cover various exploited people in the US and around the globe.
All the 80 litigants have been accused of intrigue to submit extortion, scheme to launder cash, and disturbed wholesale fraud, the US Attorney's Office in the Central District of California said in an official statement.
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Two Nigerian nationals, distinguished as Valentine Iro and Chukwudi Christogunus Igbokwe, who are a piece of those captured in the US, have been named as co-backstabbers working with others in the US and in Nigeria, to get cash from unfortunate casualties and after that move it abroad.
They figured out how to falsely acquire $6m (£5m) in an intrigue planned for taking $46m, the US Attorney's Office charges.
The staying 66 litigants are accepted to be abroad, "with most them situated in Nigeria", the experts state.
Those named ought to be given to the US to confront a preliminary, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who heads the Nigerian government's diaspora bonus said in an announcement.
"We... ask those blamed in Nigeria to intentionally hand themselves over to American experts to clear their names, without which the Nigerian government ought to remove them if applicable global settlements between the two governments are summoned."
The activities of a couple ought not discolor all Nigerians, she included.
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The presumes utilized unlawful cash exchangers to move cash to Nigeria, by and large abstaining from moving the assets legitimately through financial establishments, the arraignment says.
The specialists have recorded an aggregate of 252 charges against the 80 suspects.
One of the people in question, a Japanese lady named FK in court papers, was conned out of $200,000 in the wake of being reached by a fraudster distinguishing themselves as US Capt Terry Garcia who needed to carry jewels out of Syria.
She made 35 to 40 installments, accepting upwards of 10 to 15 messages multi day guiding her to send cash to accounts in the US, Turkey and the United Kingdom through the commander's many implied partners, the LA Times reports.
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