[Air-l] conference request

[Hamilton, Stuart]

Further to list talk about bogus conferences, I was involved in a little
espionage work trying to track down some 'conference' organisers in 2002. A
delegate to a pre-WSIS conference I attended, a nice guy from Nepal, told me
a story about how his NGO had been approached to attend a conference in
Brighton. After visiting the conference website and communicating with the
organisers, his NGO stumped up the $400 dollars in registration fees and
waited to receive more information. You can guess what happened next. I too
visited the website (I worked for Brighton libraries for 4 years) and it was
a pretty good job - if you didn't know the town (www.ngosummit2002.4t.com -
it's still there, along with a picture of London on the front page!).
Perhaps the full story should be related to anyone interested off list, but
suffice to say it seemed to be quite an elaborate scam. If anyone is
interested I'd be happy to relate it. It seems that there must be a market
for this sort of thing out there, in the same way as the 419 situation...

Stuart

Stuart Hamilton
IFLA/FAIFE PhD Student
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:04:45 +0200
From: "Wasserman Herman <hwasser at sun.ac.za>" <hwasser at sun.ac.za>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] conference request
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Robert and Elijah mention a seemingly bogus conference call. I also got
=
one. Would be interested in finding out what's behind it.
Herman