I've Won a BMW Car and 550,000 Euros...

Wow, must be my lucky day (again), according to an e-mail I've just received, I've won '550,000 Euros and a new BMW Car' !

Hang on, this is a lottery that is allegedly sponsored by BMW, I don't drive [maybe it is time to learn as they are giving me a free car?], and yet again I don't remember entering any lottery!

Here are a couple of screenshots, showing the whole e-mail in all its glory:




Are BMW really that hard up that they can't afford their own e-mail system and have to rely on AOL? No, of course they are not, this is a scam.

Just to make it crystal clear, this is a scam, there is no money, and I haven't really won anything....Damn, I suppose I better cancel that order for those new guitars now? ;-)

Blimey, they are using a picture of some poor unsuspecting guy to try and give more credence to the e-mail. In this case they have used an image from www.rotary.org and the picture is of the president [Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammer] of that society.

I'm sure he will be delighted to know that a picture of him is being used to help make a scam [in this case it is an Advance-Fee Fraud also known as a 419 or Nigerian scam] more believable?