(Image: Paul McDevitt) (Image: Paul McDevitt)
Costly non-existent conferences
ORGANISERS of “scamferences” don’t just want to make money from innocent academics who book rooms at non-existent hotels (9 June). Guy Cox writes that sometimes the aim seems to be a bit more sinister: “I signed up for one in Florida, which promised that my air fare and hotel would be paid, and my visa would be arranged. So the form asked for full details of my passport.”
This would of course be prime identity-theft material, and it reminds us that the proposal from our hypothetical academic “Jo De Selby…
