How can we fight Immigration scammers?

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Guys,

I am Canadian and I have a friend who is immigrant from south Asia, he was landed immigrant 
in 2004 and he was scammed by a bunch of people to fake his residency by asking him to put 
his residency address as their home address, and he was paying them monthly for this 
service while he was outside Canada. 

To add to that, they told him they can fake an employment by asking him to pay them monthly and they can show that many as payroll after subtracting tax from his money and they will deposit the money in his account minus the salary tax, and they used their friends to accommodate that by showing fake employees with fake payrolls, so they can reduce their businesses tax, by using my friend's money and others too.

They kept asking him for money and sometimes blackmailing him if he hesitated, that if he didn't send the money they will throw his mail in the garbage. He spent almost $10000 in two years, till he was fed up.

He came back to Canada in 2006 to stay and found a job and he cut his relationship with those scammers and became a Canadian citizen this year. 

When he told me the story, I felt sorry for the new immigrants who fall for such traps and 
I asked him to go and sue those guys and inform the authorities, but he doesn't know where 
to start and also if he started the process, it may burn him too as he was part of the scam 
but a victim and I think there are many new immigrants in the same situation and they are 
afraid to talk, but we need to stop those scammers for ambushing those victims for 
residency and Tax fraud.

Can any one help in this? What do you recommend? What could happen if he sued those guys or 
reported them Canada revenue agency or police?