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Message from TakingITGlobal: We have received numerous inquiries and complaints about this conference. We do not believe that it is legitimate. Please do not e-mail us about this conference -- we do not suggest that you pay any registration fees for this conference, or plan to attend it.
Here are some general features of conferences to be wary about, courtesy of Fred Clark from the Youth Employment Summit:
1. Guinea Bissau appears to be a launching pad for current fraudulent efforts. Beware of conferences associated with Guinea Bissau. Also beware conferences that are a strange linkage between two countries.
2. The names of the ostensible host is often a wholesome traditional American name with Christian overtones. Witness the name below; Rev. Mary Brownie, and Transworld Youth. Names like this are designed to persuade you of the honesty of the perpetrator, and resemble existing organizations. All of this calculated to fool you.
3. Suspicious email addresses and Tel./ Fax. numbers. If you do not recognize the organization in the email address domain name, then be very careful. For example, reputable organizations have recognizable email addresses, like '@edc.org', or 'un.org', 'usaid.org'. If the number is a fax number only, despite claiming to be a telephone line also, and if no-one answers the phone, then be very suspicious.
4. Request for your passport details. Be very suspicious if an organization you have never heard of, and cannot independently verify, asks for your passport number. In a security conscious world your passport details cannot be guarded too closely.
5. Many conferences are using similar language to reputable organizations like YES. Often the language is directly stolen from a reputable organization's website, as recent cases have shown. Youth and Alcohol conferences are very common fronts for criminals.
6. The offer is often too good to be true. For example, an offer of free accommodation, but with vague details.
7. No physical address. Most attempts include only email and a Tel./ Fax number, but no street address. Be very suspicious of this. Sometimes a physical address and venue is found to be fictitious, or a half truth. Often a real venue is quoted but no conference of the same name is planned at that venue, and staff at existing venues know nothing of the event as claimed in a fraudulent extortion attempt.
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