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Quote: Beware sham climate change conference in phishing comments from WGGWCC 08! August 23, 2008 at 10:21 am | Posted in Climate change, Environment, Global warming | 32 Comments Tags: Climate change, Conferences, Global warming, Internet fraud, London, Phishing, Scam, SPAM, WGGWCC Last week a lengthy comment arrived for moderation, I marked it as spam, but believe it is a sophisticated scam—an attempt at phishing. The comment from Mrs. Osman began: WGGWCC08 Announces the 3rd Global Warming and Climate Change International Conference & Exposition. (WGGWCC 08 ) On the behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committees, the Working Group on Global Warming and Climate Change (WGGWCC) announces that the 3rd International Global Warming and Climate Change Conference & Industry Exposition (WGGWCC 08 ) will be held at the Hyde Park Hotel, London on September 26-30, 2008. We also would like to extend a special invitation to you and all your colleagues to participate in WGGWCC 08 events. The event advertisement looked bogus to me for many reasons: The street address given for the organisers is, upon checking a map of the area, apparently a London cemetery — St. Marylebone Crematorium, to be precise (indicating a rather dark sense of humour!) The format of the London postcode given is invalid. The London phone number supplied is not authentic: it begins with +44 70 … This is not a true London area code (which start +44 20 …). It is, in fact, a “follow me” number that is often used by scammers to complicate matters. The true Hyde Park Hotel in London has real phone and fax numbers with proper London area codes. I contacted the Manager last week and was told he could guarantee that there is no WGGWCC conference taking place in his hotel on 26-30 September 2008. The fake Hyde Park Hotel website provided in a link by WGGWCC comments directs you to a site designed to take your money as you provide details for a pseudo-room booking. You will not get accommodation in the real hotel, and there is no conference to attend! WGGWCC? Never heard of it. Perhaps an org title with Global Warming and Climate Change together indicate a degree of redundancy that made me smell a small rat? The third international conference provides no information on previous events, and lacks named speakers and sponsors, despite calling for papers and offering travel and visa assistance to foreign attendees. A quick glance at the source code shows the amateur website is created using Yahoo! SiteBuilder with Yahoo! Webhosting. No reputable organisation would use those tools. All in all, a bad deal if you register for a non-existent conference and pay someone other than the real hotel manager for a non-existent room. Bottom line: Please do not click on any links provided by WGGWCC. For examples of the particular comment I’m alerting you to, please see Newsweek and Brave New Climate.[^ Barry Brook has removed the comment on his blog, but Newsweek are ignoring this issue, oh well.] [^Hooray! Newsweek have listened ] This scam appeared online in a modified form a couple of months ago. A quick search shows a previous incarnation of 3rd International Global Warming and Climate Change Conference and Industry Exposition (WGGWCC 08 ) was advertised for 25-29 July 2008 in London by Bioversity. My guess is that we shall see this four-day climate change event popping up and disappearing again until the perpetrators find something more profitable