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Another stinky conference

I guess it's that time of year. Here's another conference that I will patently ignore:


And here's why:

  1. There are a total of three different names associated with the sender: "ailsa", "dacey", and "Ms. Miranda Liang." 
  2. How is it that I'm being invited to a "World Education Day" conference via a domain called "gene-convention2017"?
  3. If they'd bother to even read the abstract of my paper (the title of which they did get right), they'd see it has fuck all of nothing to do with Educational Leadership Forums, or indeed education in general.
  4. Item #3 is bait, to get me to click on the link for the whole program, the URL of which ends in ".asp" - which translates to "we'd gonna load a bunch of scripts into your browser whether you want 'em or not." Seems legit.
  5. They then hint at all the fun you can have in "...one of the most famous tourist cities in China."
  6. Then you get to the address and you see "BIT Group Global Ltd" - which sure as fuck doesn't doesn't sound like a group that organizes real conferences, so you Google 'em and get stuff like this Wikipedia page and this article on HuffPo.
So here's what I replied:

And now I'll filter all future emails from gene-convention2017.com to be immediately deleted automatically.

UPDATE! 20:45, 18 April. It didn't take long for these deplorables to "retaliate," which more than anything just proves my point.


So now there's a fourth person - "penny" - and a confirmation that bitlifesciences.com is part of the same scam.

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