I must have 'fleece me' tattooed on my forehead, in ink only visible to criminals. I received a letter this morning, telling me that I had been 'proposed as a biographical candidate to represent West Glamorgan in the 2009/2010 online Cambridge Who's Who Registry among Executives and Professionals'. My first reaction was 'eh? did you get me confused with someone else?' Then I smelled a big, festering, stinky rat.
I googled this so-called registry, and my suspicions proved right. It's a big stinky scam, an attempt to appeal to human vanity, in order to obtain large sums of money from the gullible. If you get one of these letters - bin it. Unless, of course, you're happy to pay $800 - around £560 - just to see your name on a meaningless list.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/272887/cambridge_whos_who_who_is_going_to_pg2.html?cat=7
http://www.openwiki.com/ow.asp?cambridge_whos_who
This scam originated from an address in Uniondale, NY. The British version emanates from the following address:
PO Box 7406
Milton Keynes,
MK8 OWQ
You have been warned!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Cambridge Who's Who fraud.
Posted by Siani at 15:22
Labels: Cambridge Who's Who fraud, Fraud, scam, vanity publishing
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6 comments:
I got one to represent Essex today... Strange as Romford has not been part of Essex (except postally) since 1967.
I would have been more convinced if it was for Hho's Nobody!
My wife got one to represent Essex as well today. Guess they must think we're all idiots around here ;-)
If anyone else got one, suggest they fill out the enclosed form with bogus information and post it back. It will cost them some money that way :-)
Hubby had one of these letters today. I googled and your page was the first one that contained the whole title, I forgot to invert my commas :S.
You have an interesting site here.
Found this on a blog I visit at times. Thought you might be interested.
Yes, these who's who people are scum.
they almost ripped my mum off for
$1000.
there is a good article that shows how they are complete frauds - http://www.csoonline.com/article/498903/What_s_What_with_the_Who_s_Who_
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