Posted on 10/14/2006 8:38:55 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I received the following electronic epistle just exactly as you see it... pathetic grammar, formatting, and all.
®BMW MOTOR NOTIFICATION BMW COMPANY UK®. An Affiliate of Bmw Uk. 28 TANFIELD ROAD, LONDON, UK. Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the BMW CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on the 11TH october, 2006.You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference Number BMW:2551256003/23 and Secret pin code x7pwyz2006 and. Your email address attached to the ticket number: 2752246896 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of £450,000.00 (four hundred and fifty thousand Great British Pounds) and a brand new BMW 5 Series Car credited to file reference number:I BMW:2551256003/23. This is from a total cash prize of Ten million pounds shared among all our international winners in all categories. CONGRATULATION!!!!!! All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you.This is a part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted participants or imposters, taking advantage of the situation. You are to contact your/our-accredited agent for your claim now.. ************************************************************* Mr. Dunace Clem BMW CLAIMING SECURITY AGENCY. Email: dunaceclem013@hotmail.com ************************************************************* He is your agent, and he is responsible for the processing and transfer of your winnings to you. YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS BMW:2551256003/23. (keep personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed on time (AT LEAST 1-2weeks) . Failure to claim your prizes would result to forfeiting and will be used for the next 10,000,000 pounds international lottery program. Furthermore, should there be any change in your contact address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible: 1.Name in full---------------------------------------- 2.Address---------------------------------------- 3. Nationality---------------------------------------- 4.Age---------------------------------------- 5.Occupation---------------------------------------- 6.Phone/Fax---------------------------------------- 7.Present Country---------------------------------------- 8.Short comment on our products. [optional]---------------------------------------- 9.Male/female---------------------------------------- 10.Fax [optional]---------------------------------------- 11,Annual Income---------------------------------------- Once again congratulations. Yours Sincerely, (MRS.) JULIAN ROY (Program Co-ordinator.) Have Fun, The BMW AUTOMOBILE CO.LIMITED® Team
Your mileage may vary...
Changed his email. Used to be dunace_clem2006@yahoo.com,
I hate to admit it...
But I find those emails very entertaining...I collect all of them!
Dear Sir:
My name is Ikkele Mukabobo, and I am the wife of the former minister of the interior...
CONGRATULATION!!!!!!
Laugh all you want but it's not funny. I keep getting emails about my relatives getting killed in car accidents in Africa.
Of course, they are not close relatives, as I don't know them by name, but they must know me because they keep leaving me money. Just as soon as those checks arrive me and the misses are going on a trip.
Not to Africa, of course. Our family can't seem to drive there worth squat.
LOL!
But it's all true! I know, I won last year. Send me your personal information and I will tell you all about it. You can trust me, I already won!
If you haven't seen this, it is very very funny.
http://www.419eater.com/html/trophy_room.htm
Also, FReeper Lowbridge has some fun with these crooks.
L
I have won well over 10 billion dollars in the last three or four years. At least that is what the many emails that I have received tells me. And I haven't gotten one red cent.
To most of us the letters are an irritant. To Michael Berry they are a call to arms. For the last five years he has replied to the scammers emails, expressing an interest in their propositions and then spending days, weeks, even months leading them down the garden path with his hilarious requests and misunderstandings. Hes had them selling paintings to Del Trotter Antiques, tattooing themselves so as to become members of his bogus church, booking expensive hotels for his no-show personas, seeking criminal compensation from Inspector Morse, writing out a Harry Potter novel by hand, or being killed by a mugger just outside the Western Union office where he was about to make a payment to them and, cruelest of all, falling in love with him as he pretends to be Gillian Anderson. His revenges are funny, often savage and always effortlessly inventive
hehehe!
And to think that folks used to buy a sh!tload of junk from those losers thinking that they'll get a better chance to win those ficticious jackpots.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I noticed that too.
ROTFLMBO!
The best scambait EVER:
http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109
Very long, but very funny.
Just watch out for the Governor & the Clique Mob ;-)
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