I won a BMW 5 series 550i M sport saloon car, and not only that, add up £500,000….Can you believe the luck??!! First time I got the email from INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY UK-Based, warmly congratulating me on this windfall. What luck!!! I still can’t believe it!!

But wait!!! Since when did I participate in any contest??? UK-Based somemore… How the hell did my company email add got thru to UK??? For all concerned, my email add has been to mosques and organisations…and then I was asked to forward that email to a Mr ****Cox, for consignment or delivery purposes. What the heck, i have to do the forwarding??? why don’t you do it yourself??? for some big company, BMW somemore, that doesn’t sound so systematic and ‘customer-friendly’. As far as my experiences taught me, you DON’T ask your customer to do the ‘work’~

For the benefit of doubt, I replied to that email, forward it, gave some particulars. and waited. I got a reply from them, confirming once again about my winning, but then I have to fill up a beneficiary form, which I do not understand the very purpose of that, but again, i read the whole thing and surprise2, right at the very end of this beneficiary form, it says something about having to include an amount of money for authorisation. guess the amount of money???

its a 7 DIGIT amount! which will look like this: 1, 234, 567, in euro currency at that!! not indonesian nor malaysian nor singapore dollars. kalau in rupiah pun, mana ada orang duit banyak gitu?? lainlah kalau the rich and famous kan~ nak gali kubur cari duit?? HEH, what the????

Tak syak lagi lah, must be some scam. you know those scams promising prizes and thousands of money when actually, we are the ones forking out and stupidly pay them, just so, just so, we could get hold of those ‘far-reaching’ prizes!! I’m majorly pissed.
I even received a call from the heavily accented mr cox, asking me how am i planning to get my CAR delivered. how should i know?? i thought for being in such a big company, they would be the ones dealing with all these procedures. I told him let me think about it.

He called again today, but i wasn’t at home, thank God, but he emailed me asking me to call him and inform him on what the next step would be. Eh, how would I know??? Lord, he sound like a stalker.

With just that ‘authorisation’ amount, it just clicked, its a scam alright! who do they think i am? just because we’re from singapore, we might not know about this sort of ‘business’. hey tolonglah, are you living in your anglo-saxon times?? this is not a new thing.

For us, if we all could recall, there was a scam African-based, and quite a number of people got cheated out of it. Even my father, almost, almost got cheated. A few years back, got a letter saying my father won some large amount of money form whatever contest, Spain-based. We checked and surfed the net, emailed some singapore-based company, which goes with the same name, and they replied saying to have heard of no such thing. Oh better, we got hold of the very company, same name and all, but DIFFERENT LOGO, we inquired, related to them the scenario, and a reply came, saying that they had been aware of some scam business going on using their name and urged us to stop corresponding with the pseudo company. HAH!!
We even faxed and called all the way to Spain, just to have the benefit of the doubt. As soon as they say we had to send in some money for their ‘procedures’ we just stop. and i remembered one month later, my parents went to our trusty Post Office, seeking assistance to check up on the addresses, fax and telephone numbers and whatnots, and surprise2, they no longer exist!!

I just can’t believe these scheming cheating people. What if someone out there is naive enough to believe and follow all those many steps and levels of procedures, forking out money every single step!!!

I emailed BMWgroup based in Singapore, inquiring them about this winning and prizes. waiting for a reply from them.

Hish, leceh betullah orang2 ni. tetiba jer nak menipu orang! me of all the billions of people world citizens.