Re: Draft paper submission deadline is extended: ISP-10

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:01:58AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> This is a fake conference spammer.

There's an entire gang of scamming spammers behind these fake conferences.
They've been hammering Usenet for years and occasionally hit mailing lists
as well.  All the conferences are complete bullshit: any paper submitted
(including those comprised of gibberish) will be accepted *as long as the
fee is paid* and that's why they're running the scam.

This particular address has been sending out these recently:

        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: AIPR-10, Orlando, USA
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: CCN-10, Orlando, USA
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: HPCS-10
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: ISP-10
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: IVPCV-10, Orlando, USA
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: MULTICONF-10, Orlando, 
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: SETP-10
        Draft paper submission deadline is extended: TMFCS-10, Orlando, USA

And no, it's not an accident that they're all in Orlando: that's also
part of the scam.

A brief write-up on these:

        http://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/2008/12/fake-conferences.html

A bunch of these scam conferences reference www.promoteresearch.org, which
should also be blacklisted permanently, as it's apparently the mothership
for a lot of this activity.  (Obfuscated registration, one of the hallmarks
of spammers, phishers, and other scumbags.)

If anybody's interested in about 800 samples of their spew, let me know
and I'll get it to you.

---Rsk
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