A court in Nigeria has sentenced a woman to two and a half years in prison for her part in the country's biggest ever international fraud case.Amaka Anajemba admitted helping her late husband to persuade an employee of a Brazilian bank to transfer millions of dollars into overseas accounts.
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The BBC's Anna Borzello in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos says that the country is notorious for its advance fee frauds.
Known as four-one-nines after the Nigerian criminal code prohibiting such practices, greedy or gullible investors are invited to hand over money or bank account details on the promise of large future payments, which never arrive.
In its most common form unsolicited e-mails offer the recipient a share of the wealth of dead African dictators.
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