I’m sure most of you will have had your share of spam emails varying from 20c Viagra pills to super rich African dictators in need of help to get a million bucks into the
The winner is entitled to several hundreds of thousands of Euros, Dollars or pounds –depending where you live, and a brand new BMW 5 Series car with insurance covered for a year. The bogus message of course advises recipients to contact the 'claims department' and includes a fake corporate address, email address and telephone number to enhance the legitimacy of the scheme. –Continued: Click “Read More…” below
The fraudulent emails seem to have worried BMW officials as the Bavarian’s
BMW
On-line fraud
Following a spate of bogus emails, BMW
Richard Price, BMW national customer service manager, said: “We are aware that there are a number of similar emails in circulation and we are currently investigating how to prevent those responsible from using BMW’s name in such a way. We advise anyone who receives the email not to enter into correspondence with the sender.”
Example of ‘International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company’ bogus email
HEAD OFFICE:BMW Kundenbetreuung
80788
Tel/Fax:+491-8054-8207-90718
THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS
PROMOTION CLAIMS DEPARTMENT OF
THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.
Surinamestraat 24
2585 GJ Den Haag
Reference Number:BMW/2441257016/21
CONGRATULATION!!! YOU ARE A WINNER.
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years' BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held on Friday 13th of April 2007, in München, Germany.
This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M Sport Saloon car and a cash prize of $500,000.00us dollars (Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars). The car comes with a special BMW Insurance Cover for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in 2008. It also comes with a one year warranty.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE: YEAR 2006 MODEL(550i M Sport Saloon)
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number:7657645545100 and serial number:BMWP/226543451008 was randomly selected
as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners. For you to collect your prizes/winnings, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager, Dr.Donald Todd of our claims department in the
CLAIMS MANAGER:
Dr.Donald Todd.
BMW Promotion Claims Department
TEL: +31-626-798-892
FAX: +31-847-474-594
EMAIL: bmwpromoclaims@aol.com
VERIFICATION FORM:
1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) TICKET NUMBER:
13.) SERIAL NUMBER
Congratulations once more, & keep trusting BMW Automobile for top quality automobiles.
Engr. Martin Schultz.
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,
BMW AUTOMOBILE.
Kundenbetreuung 80788
Tel/Fax:+491-8054-8207-90718
The Bmw International Awareness Promotion Copyright ©2007.All Right Reserve.
