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Nigerians (especially the young males) are commonly seen as fraudsters. It is believed that every Nigerian youth making money off the internet is an internet fraudster.
Although, I have not been to Nigeria, but with a very high degree of certainty, I can say that internet fraud are not and cannot be the only jobs in Nigeria. Generalizing the Nigerian youths in such manner would be stereotyping them all as fraudsters. Just like any other country, there are people working hard and earning money doing jobs which are not illegal. Similarly, like every other country, even Nigeria has people who breaks the law, while the others abide by it.
Internet Fraud is very common in other countries as well and therefore associating people from just one particular region would be wrong.
Granted, Nigeria has been seen over the years to be corrupt, and thus Nigerians have also earned that reputation. There are Nigerian fraudsters, but are all fraudsters Nigerians? Also, compared to the kinds of fraud in question, I’d say Nigerian scams are pretty much see through, if you yourself are not greedy, unlike some other kind of insanely technical and elaborate scams i’ve come across. (Meanwhile, some of these grand scams are even somewhat celebrated)
Long and short, its the same way many nationals are stereotyped for different kinds of things.
If you were to take some time to watch the stereotype video experiments on Youtube, you’d see how an asian male was immediately barraged with questions when fiddling with a bicycle locked to a tree while only an hour earlier, same bicycle, white male, fiddled endlessly. He even got offers of help to get the bicycle free. Stereotypes are what they are, stereotypes! You would do well to examine anyone that you come across with an open mind, be they Nigerian, or any other nationality. Many people miss out on stuff because of their perceived opinions.