Nigeria Closes down Spammers

The Nigerian Anti-Fraud commission EFCC states on its website that they started an operation against spam that has already resulted in the termination of 800 web sites. Nigeria is the home of the 419 scam emails where people are promised a substantial amount of money from questionable origin if the make some advance payments.

Will this reduce the amount of spam? I do not think so: 419 scams are almost neglegible in my spambox. However, if they actually shut down the scammers, it might help Nigeria's internet reputation, which might help Nigeria's economic development.