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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mrtonyakan@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mr tony akan" <tw4akan1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrtonyakan@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:17:37 +0000
Subject: BEST REGARDS

BEST REGARDS
FROM MR TONY AKAN
DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.
Email:mrtonyakan@gmail.com

 

My Dear.
 
I am Mr.Tont Akan, the Deputy Managing Director, Finance & Banking Services of the International Commercial Bank kumasi  (ICB). I have a B.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of London and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of the Bankers, (FCIB) I am also the current President of the Institute of Bankers, Ghana.
 
I received your contact from a financial source records and group record of international responsible bussiness associated currentely listed  among others.

However, I wish to inform you that I have a very big financial project, I would like us to work towards, which I will procure all the necessary documents via the Law Court of Judiciary that will guarantee the transfer of the funds into any nominated bank from your side.
 
I wish to inform that I have the sum of Fifteen million dollar [$15,000,000.00] deposited an Escrow coded bank account awaiting to assign a beneficiary name before it would be transferred.

I have been depositing funds into this account for the past ten years little by little up to this time,the reason why i cannot use this funds my self is that the Banking law guiding this nation says in the  1976-law-section a and b ,article 5 and 7 chapter 14 to 36 says that no banker can run an account more that his income and the money we are being paid is simple to colculate.I made this money from joint deal transfer of gold funds sales with a company –name- Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC), which is part British-owned that deals on gold mining in the village of Sanso in Obuasi, Central-Eastern Ghana,
 
Please, I would like you to contact me with your full details so that both of us can move this fund into a very safe place without any problem. I hope to hear from you so that I will give you more details regarding this transfer.

You can send your reply via my private email:mrtonyakan@gmail.com

BEST REGARDS.

Mr.TONY AKAN
DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA

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