Dear Sir/Madam,
this problem also happened to us, while we were organising an international
conference on museums in Loures, Portugal.
We have received by email many demands from Africa, specially Nigeria,
asking for an invitation letter.
We had to say we could not do that! We also checked their names, nothing was
found that helped us relate those names with museums, museum practice or
museology in Nigeria.
We decided to wait, did not send any letters. Still they insisted, it was
unpleasant to receive several emails with dispair within. Only after a few
months we realised it was all fake.
Thank you for sharing this issue with everybody!
Joaquim Jorge
anthropologist, MA
Loures Municipal Museums Network
Loures
Portugal
>From: Amareswar Galla <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Fake conference registrations?
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:16:25 +1000
>
>Dear Per,
>
>I have had the same experience several times. In fact, several such
>requests were made in the lead up to the ICOM ASPAC meeting in Shanghai
>last year.
>
>I did a similar check and found that they were organisations without a
>base. What is even more disturbing is that they seem to read the minutes
>of our meetings - AC and EC and follow up from the notes with requests for
>letters of invitation.
>
>Almost all the e-mails have come from Nigeria. I do not waste time on
>these mails any more.
>
>Thanks for sharing this. I wonder how many others have met with this
>irritation.
>
>But my apologies to my Nigerian colleagues. I suggest that one way to deal
>with this probelm is to refer all such requests to ICOM Nigeria for follow
>up or comment.
>
>Amar
>
> > Dear ICOM colleagues,
> >
> > In connection with the forthcoming ICME conference in Romania, we have
> > received some registrations from different parts of Africa, but
> > particularly Nigeria, where we have not succeded in confirming the
> > identity of the person/institution/organization. They do not ask for
> > money, but seem to want an answer confirming their conference
>registration
> > or a letter of invitation. Both can of course be used to secure a visa
>to
> > a European country.
> >
> > I suspect this is a new variant from the Nigerian swindlers we know too
> > well. This suspicion was strengthened when I searched on the internet on
> > the name of one of the institutions and found no web page connected to
>it,
> > but two persons allegedly coming from that institution registered as
> > participants at an international conference.
> >
> > Do any one of you have similar experiences or know something more about
> > this?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Per
> >
> > Per B. Rekdal
> > ICME president
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