I have been marketed by the World Confederation of Businesses for aBusiness Excellence Award. They would like me to come to their awardsceremony to receive this award as well. Only problem, I am not inbusiness anymore! I thought this was some kind of joke but they are forreal, all I have to do is pay $3030.00 and I can have my award. S oundslike a scam. After 8 emails and 3 phone calls from someone who canbarely speak English, I have decided to do some research, here is whatI have found out:
First of all, the website looks nice. But the more I read, the more itbecame apparent that they are not a US based company as they claim. Iam 99% positive they are based in Lima, Peru, and operate as Calidad deImpacto. According to Spamhaus.org, the IP address for the emails showsthey are coming from TELMEX in Lima. Spamhaus blocked them because theyare sending out thousands of emails with the same or similar subjecttitles. Let me guess, Congratulations blank for the Bizz Awards 2009 orsomething to that effect. Here is a blog that I found in Spanish, seemsthey started doing this in South America. I used the translator onGoogle to read this:
Http://rcs-fuzzy. Blogspot.com/08/bizz-awards-estafa-al-clienteconsumidor.html
The award. This is a little confusing. What is it for? BusinessExcellence. Why? For achieving business excellence. Who determinesthis? The World Confederation of Businesses How? We do it internally, and base it on blah, blah, blah. Okay, so there is no nomination, noresearch, no panel of judges, and no real reason this award iswarranted. This is obvious because they are awarding a company that nolonger is in business. I have also found out that they are soliciting alocal Chamber of Commerce for this award too! On the web page, www.bizzusa.com, they explain who accredits this award. The BBB. Okay, any business can pay to be a part of the BBB. Maybe WORLDCOB doesn'thave any complaints because they don't have any American companies thathave been suckered in by their marketing scheme yet. The UN GlobalCompact, again, any company can pay to join this. So there is no"accredidation" for this award. The "accredidation" is your $3030.00.
This is the second go around for them here in the US. They tried doingthis earlier this year, the Bizz Awards 2008 it was called, and it wasscheduled to happen in March.
By looking at the websites and the video on YouTube it looks as if thismay be something worth having, but websites and photos and pressreleases are actually all that I can find that gives this award anyrecognition.in fact, anyone can buy a list of company names in acountry and market them for some award, host and event to give it away, then ride of into the sunset with your $3030.00 claiming they awardedyou with "the most important business award in the world". Soundsridiculous but it is happening.
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