December 16, 2007

Spam invitations for a “conference”

GMail has superb spam filtering, and I get nearly nothing on that, but my other email addresses receive quite a bit of spam. Usually the spam is boring 419 scams like these two. But sometimes you get other spam, from what seems like a semi-legit group which just happens to be retarded. By semi-legit I mean there doesn’t seem to be any obvious way to make money. They don’t have ads anywhere noticeable. Anyway, here’s that email, in entirety:

CONFERENCE/INVITATION…

Dear Sir/Madam

We are cordially inviting you to our twin combined conference which will be held.In Anaheim California From the 21st -23rd of January 2008 and Dakar senegal from the 27th -30th of January 2008.
If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country,you may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and information. You should also inform them that you were invited to
participate by a friend of yours (Sidney Cole), who is a member of the American
Youths 4 Peace and a staff of (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS).

The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets and accommodation for the period of participants Stay in the U.S, to all registered participants.You will only be responsible for your own hotel booking in Dakar where the second phase of the conference will be held.
If you are a holder of an international passport that may require visa to enter the United States you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all visa arrangements and travel assistances.
Please contact the Conference secretariat with the adress below for
detailed information.

Below is the contact address of the conference secretariat:
Email: hmr_secretary@secretary.net OR
info@worldyouthsorganization.org
By TEL: +1 (516) 303-0022 OR
By FAX +1 (718)-228-8213

Make sure you get back to me with this email address.
sidneycole@myway.com

Sincerely,
Sidney Cole.

Posted by roshan.george under Internet |

2 Comments »

  1. That is indeed quite odd. Why do they send out crap like this?

    Comment by Marc — December 16, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

  2. I don’t know. The pointlessness of something doesn’t stop people from doing it. Slashdot AC trolls for example, pasting erotic stories with racist overtones in them.

    Comment by roshan.george — December 16, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

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