Geek-oriented spam mail

[pasithea]

Heh! Some spammer finally got wise for e-mail harvesting and sent out a spam that's sure to sucker geeks. :) An excerpt follows:

Dear potential speaker:

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to one of the following
multi, inter, and trans disciplinary conferences dedicated to advances
in computer/internet science and engineering (papers with impacts on
other scientific fields are given advantage):

... Or at least I assume it's a spam mail since this didn't come to my work account
and was unsolicited.

Comments

[foxgrrl]

I grepped my mailspool to see if I'd gotten the same — I get a lot of spam — but I haven't. I've seen a lot of spam that pretends to be job placement/recruitment correspondence. This could be a new variation of that.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's my guess.