Has anyone ever retrieved money lost in a Nigerian prince type scam or other (sent via international bank transfer)?

Long story short we had an old family friend (78) recently get scammed by a crypto scammer from Jordan. They sent money to them via international bank transfer in the range of $8000 over multiple transactions.

This happened to them a month ago. We assume the money is long gone now but they have already reported it to the bank.

My question is has anyone ever got the money back lost in these types of scams I guess where they send money to someone else in hopes of getting more money in return.

We have told the family friend to not do this again but they have learnt a very expensive lesson.

So has anyone heard of anybody retrieving their money back or is it basically permanently lost and gone in 100% of cases.