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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