The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Rev Morgan Richard <andy4x2000@yahoo.com> Reply-To:     rev.morgan_richard@hotmail.com Subject:     Re:Hello Date:     Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:58:29 -1200 (Sat, 06:58 EDT) >From the Desk of Rev. Richard Morgan Director ATM CARD Department of United Bank for Africa (UBA) E-mail:Rev.morgan_richard@hotmail.com Attn: Beneficiary, Sequel to the meeting with our newly elected president, Alhaji. Umaru Musa Yaradua, we were instructed to pay all our contractors and their next of kin. Your name appeared in our system here as one of the beneficiary. A lady write to our office stated that you asked her to collect the ATM card worth of $850,000 USD below is her information: Name: Jesicca Stanford Address: 333 michigan ave State: New York Confirm to us if you asked her to collect the ATM card. We want to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations through ATM CARD is confirmed from our correspondent bank State Employees Credit Union and Wachovia (HSBC London UK ). Therefore, we are happy to inform you that an arrangement has perfectly been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible in our bid to be transparent. Meanwhile, your Secret Pin Number will be available as soon as you confirm to us the receipt of your ATM CARD. The ATM Card Value is $850,000 USD Only. You are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of US$7,000.00 is permitted daily. And we are duly inter-switched and you can make withdrawal in any location of the ATM Center of your choice/nearest to you any where in the world. We have also concluded delivery arrangement with our accredited courier service Company to oversee the delivery of the ATM Card to you without any further delay. So you are hereby advice to forward to this office your names in full and your receiving mailing address and also your private telephone number for easy communication to enable us proceed without any further delay. We will appreciate your urgent response to this matter. Thank for your understanding. Yours Sincerely Rev. Richard Morgan Director ATM CARD Department of United Bank for Africa (UBA) E-mail:Rev.morgan_richard@hotmail.com   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.