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pasithea ([personal profile] pasithea) wrote2007-04-18 10:14 am
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Geek-oriented spam mail

Heh! Some spammer finally got wise for e-mail harvesting and sent out a spam that's sure to sucker geeks. :) An excerpt follows:

Dear potential speaker:

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to one of the following
multi, inter, and trans disciplinary conferences dedicated to advances
in computer/internet science and engineering (papers with impacts on
other scientific fields are given advantage):


... Or at least I assume it's a spam mail since this didn't come to my work account
and was unsolicited.
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[personal profile] frith 2007-04-18 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it's spam. No serious conference sends out blanket emails calling for papers from unknown entities. Who would want to peer review the dregs that would flow from such a recruitment methodology? And without peer review, who would want to fly across the country/ocean to attend such a conference?
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