Monday, June 30, 2008

The BMW Automobile Company

My wife got an e-mail from something called the BMW Automobile Company, supposedly lurking somewhere in England, informing her she was the winner of a new BMW Series 5 2007 Model car, AND 450,000 Great British Pounds.

Well hell yes! I looked over the e-mail and it informed us we had to contact the "The International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company", at 22 Garden Close, Stamford, Linos, PE9 Y2P London, United Kingdom.

Of course it was a scam, but I was curious as to how they were going to try to pry money out of the suckers, so I dutifully contacted this "Promotion Department", which returned an e-mail offering us four different delivery options, from the fastest "gold" delivery to the slowest snail version delivery.

And guess what? "Gold" delivery cost over $1,100 and the snail version cost only $700.00... payable in advance of course.

A quick check of BMW's real site had all manner of warnings about this outfit and the total fraud it was committing.

Actually, it's probably some Nigerian in the Bahamas pulling this stunt, since a LOT of this sort of thing is being done by Nigerians in the Bahamas or elsewhere. Seems that many of the Nigerians that came here to the United States to get an advanced education(try and guess on whose tax dollar) decided that computers are the perfect way to make easy money, and went into the offshore scam business. Saw a special on CNN on it awhile back.

They should be hunted down, shot, and tossed to the sharks. Nobody would ever miss them.

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