Online fraudsters invite climate scientists to a fake conference
JAN 20, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024988
BBC : By creating fake websites and impersonating real climate scientists, online fraudsters have been inviting climate scientists to attend a fake conference in London. Money appears to be the motive. Although the invitations say all expenses will be covered, including lodging at the supposed conference hotel near Buckingham Palace, invitees are asked to pay an up-front reservation fee. The BBC’s Richard Black reports that climate scientists from poor countries are being targeted, presumably because they would be especially attracted by an all-expenses-paid trip.
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