419 scam: "George Adams" <ggadaamsa@ggadaamsaa.com> Hello,

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

Home

About Us

Spam

419/Nigeria

Fraud

Contact

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "George Adams" <ggadaamsa@ggadaamsaa.com>
Reply-To: <gadams_10@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:30:41 -0000
Subject: Hello,

Investment and Partnership,

Hello,

How are you and your family? It might astonish you to read from me. I am a government consultant on geo-science and mineral resources. Due to my position in the government,i was unable to go in to personal investment. There is a great opportunity for both of us and i want you to render an assistance for me whereby I am going to pay you for your services.

This transaction does not require any payment from you as all you need to do is just co-operate with me and be my partner.

The point is that there is a land in a remote village where we detected gold and as the Team Director on geo-science in my Department, I know the government does not have the facilities and interest in [the] Gold Mining. But what the Government and my president did was to issue Licenses to Foreigners and Expatriates to this mining site. I was made head of the committee who will confirm the licenses issued to the Expert rates.

The other members of the board are political appointees who do not have any experience in Geo-science.What i would like from you from you is that I will sponsor you to apply for government I can not apply for it as the government will prosecute me but you as a foreigner, they will accept your application. I will sponsor everything and we are going to agree on your percentage.

you funds to start up the project (project) and mining process. This does not take your time just agree to this sponsorship because of the nature of my job I am still working with the government I can not apply for it as the government will prosecute me but you as a foreigner, they will accept your application. I will sponsor everything and we are going to agree on your percentage.

I will be looking forward to hear from you If you are ready for the sponsorship, send me your contact details so we can talk on the 'phone and schedule How we can meet in person.

Yours, faithfully
George Adams

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam