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There is an increasing number of fraud meeting announcements being distributed by e-mails, leading colleagues to pay registration fees for meetings that are scams. Here we provide a list of such meetings. If you know of any such meeting announcements, please let us know so that we can include the meeting in the black list below. Please, forward any relevant information (including the spam mails) to info@geo-tasks.org.

See the important article that summarize the situation very well.

Organizations that run fraud journals and meetings include:

  • WASET: World Academy of Since, Engineering and Technology;

If you come across a suspicious announcement or invitation, you may want to use the checklist compiled by the Union of International Associations (UIA) and the International Dance Council (CID) available at http://www.uia.org/fraud-checklist.

Particularly bad is a group calling itself “Working Group on Climate Change” or something similar and again and again announcing conferences in London. A recent report illustrates how they opperate:


Dear,

I have just been duped by the organizers of the conference ICWCRE14. What to do to get my money back?

I'm a Ph.D student at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon. I received the announcement from a lecturer of my laboratory and submitted an accepted abstract. Later on, the organizers said that I have a scholarship of 1 888 £ and that I should send 350 £ for hotel fees and 500 £ for Mandatory Refundable Security Deposit. Once more again, the ask me to send 450 £ for Health Insurance Certificate and I started to think twice. When I refused to do that, they told me that, I must be in London to get in touch with my money.

Best regards.


Never trust suspicious meeting announcement without clear information about the organizing organization and an upfront information what you will have to pay. Do not sent money if you are asked in e-mails to do so; particularly not if you are first offered funding of any kind and then asked to pay something to get the funding.


Date Contacts Type Meeting description Venue, Co-locations, other information GEO/GEOSS Activities
26 -29 March, 2019 E-mail Invitation CO Title: 2019 International Conference on Sustainable Development
Description: This appears to be another in a long sequence of fraud conference invitations. The main goal is to get potential participants to make and pay for a fraud room reservation in the conference hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
12-15 March, 2019 E-mail Invitation CO Title: 1st CFP (deadline extension) - Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (March 12-15, 2019)
Description: This appears to be either a fraud conference invitation or a so-called predatory conference invitation, where a low-level conference with no control of the quality of participants and contents presented. The latter is increasingly used to organize mass meetings and publish papers in low-quality journals just to get the registration and publication fees. It may be that the conferences announced at the web pages actually take place, but the style and quality of the web pages and e-mail invitations raise a number of red flags about the quality of the meetings, if they take place.
Orlando, Florida, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
25-26 February, 2019 E-mail Invitation CO Title: 2nd World Conference on Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry
Description: This is most like an invitation for a "predatory" conference organized by a commercial organization with the sole purpose of making money for registration fees and publication costs. In general, the scientific quality is not supervised and very low, and participating in these conferences can actually damage reputation of serious researchers and scientists.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this may be a predatory conference.
17-21 December, 2018 E-mail Invitation CO Title: 2018 Annual Educational Conference Meeting on Domestic Violence, Child & Women’s Abuse, Human Trafficking, Raped and Solution to Global Economic Growth
Description: This is an invitation for a fraud conference in a long sequence of similar conferences. The aim is to cheat participants into paying for bookings of rooms in a non-existing fraud hotel.
Dallas, TX, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
27-30 November, 2018 E-mail Invitation CO Title: Information for Integrated Decision-Making & Institutional Frameworks on the Global Financial and Economic Crises and Its Impact on Sustainable Development
Description: This is an invitation for a fraud conference in a long sequence of similar conferences. The aim is to cheat participants into paying for bookings of rooms in a non-existing fraud hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
23-26 October, 2018 E-mail Invitation CO Title: 2018 International Conference on Sustainable Development
Description: This is an invitation for a fraud conference in a long sequence of similar conferences, mostly in London. The aim is to cheat participants into paying for bookings of rooms in a non-existing fraud hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
22-26 October, 2018 E-mail Invitation CO Title: Global World Summit On Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls, Terrorism Organization And Well-being Of Women
Description: This is a fake conference invitation. The conference is one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get registration fees and/or reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants. These invitations often just aim to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist. The information on the fraud hotel is normally provided in responses to inquiries.
USA and Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
11-16 December, 2017 E-mail Invitation CO Title: Sustainable Welfare Development and Economic growth
Description: This is a fake conference invitation and a confirmation sent to an applicant. The conference is one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants. The offered support and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist. This information on the fake hotel is normally provided in responses to inquiries.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24-27 October, 2017 E-mail Invitation, Fraud E-mail Confirmation CO Title: 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development - "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: "Education and Empowerment"
Description: This is a fake conference invitation and a confirmation sent to an applicant. The conference is one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants. The offered support and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist, as can be easily verified with a search for the Hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
25-30 September, 2017 E-mail Invitation, Fraud E-mail Confirmation CO Title: The effects of environmental pollution on human health and economic growth
Description: This is a fake conference invitation and a confirmation sent to an applicant. The conference is one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants. The offered support and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist, as can be easily verified with a search for the Hotel and using the street view on maps.google.com at the Hotel's fake address at 1818 Munger Ave, Dallas, TX 75201.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
25-29 September, 2017 E-mail Invitation CO Title: Human Right Annual Conference
Description: This is a fake conference invitation. The invitation is one in a long sequence of fake conference invitation, althugh a very poor one. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants. The offered support and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist. This information on the fake hotel is normally provided in responses to inquiries.
Atlanta, USA ???? Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
10-15 April, 2017 E-mail Invitation, Fraud E-mail Confirmation CO Title: Child Abuse and Women Molestation: A Challenge to EconomicGrowth
Description: This is a fake conference confirmation sent to an applicant. The conference is one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants. The offered support and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation at a hotel that does not exist, as can be easily verified with a search for the Hotel and using the stgreet view on maps.google.com at the Hotel's fake address at 7687 Fair Oaks Ave, Dallas, TX.
Dallas, Texas. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
17th - 20th March, 2017 E-mail invitation CO Title: UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-(UNCSD)
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants. The offered free registration and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation.
London, UK Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
5-10 March and 12-16 March, 2017 E-mail invitation CO Title: next International Conference on (Child Abuse, Neglect & Human Trafficking)
Description: This is a fake conference announcement - the next one in a long sequence of fake conferences. It uses the same approach as many others before to get reservation costs for the hotel room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants. The offered free registration and airfare are just to get people to make a pre-paid hotel reservation.
New York, USA and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21st - 25th of February 2017 E-mail invitation CO Title: USA Global Youths Conference 2017
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for fake conferences have been sent out several times. The goal is to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants.
Atlanta, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
n/a E-mail Job Announcement Jobs Title: EMPLOYMENT-UNITED NATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (UNRISD)
Description: This is a fake job announcement for jobs at United Nations Agencies. Similar announcements have been sent out frequently. The goal is to get some fees and/or the personal details of the applicants.
n/a Please inform potential applicants that this is a fraud job announcement.
23-28 January 2017 E-mail invitation CO Title: Sustainable Healthcare System & Economic Development
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
Texas city, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
19-23 December 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International Symposium on Child & Women's Protection, Global Terrorism & Domestic Violence, Economic development and Global Security
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
Houston, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
19-23 December 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: CONFERENCE INVITATION @2016 IN USA
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
12-17 December 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International Conference Meeting
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Dalles, Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
28-30 November 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: ICEEWR-2016: International Conference on Environment, Energy and Water Resources 28-30 November, 2016, London, United Kingdom
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in London have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24-31 October 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International Sustainable Healthcare System and Economic Development related to the issues of economic growth
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants.
Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-23 October and 26-30 October 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: 6th International Conference on (Violence and Sexual Abuse on Women and Children )
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar ones have been sent out several times by the Global Initiative fro Women and Children Rights. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the presonal details of the registrants.
Boston, Ma, USA and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
10-15 October 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International Conference Meeting, October 10th to 15th, 2016. Dallas, Texas USA
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar invitations for conferences in Texas have been sent out several times. A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel and/or the personal details of the registrants.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21st -24 June 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2016)
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar ones have been sent out several times (see e.g. this invitation). A goal seems to be to get the reservation costs for the room at a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-25 June 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: 2016 Educational Seminar on Human Rights and Child Sex Trafficking: A Solution to Global Terrorism and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Social Economic Problem
Description: This is one more in the endless sequence of fake conference announcement with a location in Texas, USA. The goal is most likely to get fake room reservation costs at a fake hotel. In less elaborated efforts, the goal may be to get e-mail addresses and personal data.
Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24-27 May 2016 (USA) and 31 May - 3 June, 2016 (Senegal) 1st E-mail invitation; 2nd E-mail invitation ; Response to inquiry CO Title: International Conference on (Child Abuse, HIV/AIDS And Diabetes Control)
Description: This is one more in the endless sequence of fake conference announcement with a location in the USA and Senegal. The goal is most likely to get fake room reservation costs at a fake hotel. In less elaborated efforts, the goal may be to get e-mail addresses and personal data.
California, USA, and Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24rd - 27th May, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: Impact and implications of the global financial and economic crisis on sustainable development & climate change proposals for an integrated global response to the crisis.
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar ones have been sent out several times. Note that a similar invitation has been sent out in the name of the European Commission for an identical event starting on 23rd May 2016.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
23rd - 27th May, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: Impact and implications of the global financial and economic crisis on sustainable development & climate change proposals for an integrated global response to the crisis.
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar ones have been sent out several times.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
23rd - 28th May, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: Human Resource Development on Economic Growth
Description: This is a fake conference announcement. Similar ones have been sent out several times.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
May 23 - 28, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:Human Rights, Health Care and Socio Economic Development.
Description: This is a scam most likely aiming at getting the payment for a hotel room in a fake hotel.
Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
May 16-20, 2016 (USA) and May 23 - 27, 2016 (Senegal) E-mail invitation CO Title: World Conference On Women's Rights, Health Diagnosis And Well-being Of Women.
Description: This is a recurrent scam with the same locations abut different dates. Most likely, the goal is to get hotel room costs for a reservation in a fake hotel.
USA and Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
27 -28 April 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: REFRAC WELLS 2016 Exhibition & Conference
Description: This is an advanced scam.
Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
26 - 29 April 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-(UNCSD) 2016
Description: This is a often repeated scam that aims to get registration fees and/or room registration costs at a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
25 - 29 April 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: ECONOMIC SUMMIT
Description: This is a often repeated scam that aims to get the costs for a hotel room at a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
April 25 - 30, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: Promoting Human Rights through Economic Development.
Description: This is a recurrent scam with the conference topic varying between the annoucements. The location is most often Dulles, Texas, and sometimes a second part in Senegal. The scam is most likely aiming at getting the payment for a hotel room in a fake hotel.
Dallas, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
12-15 April and 19-22 April 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International Conference on (Child Abuse, HIV/AIDS And Diabetes Control
Description: This is a scam most likely using a false hotel to get the money for the hotel room booking.
California, USA, and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
March 28 - 31, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:European Economic Summit.
Description: This is a scam most likely aiming at getting the payment for a hotel room in a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
22 - 25 March 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-(UNCSD) 2016
Description: This is a scam most likely using a false hotel to get the money for the hotel room booking.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21- 26 March 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: GEO forth Coming Joint Conference on Global Empowerment for Human Right
Description: This is one more in a sequence of fake conference announcement with a location in Texas, USA. The goal is to get fake registration fees and/or fake room reservation costs at a fake hotel. In less elaborated efforts, the goal may be to get e-mail addresses and personal data.
Houston, Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
March 21 - 25, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:2016 Educational Seminar on Human Rights and Social-Economic Development: A Solution to Global Terrorism and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women.
Description: This is a scam aiming to get a payment for a hotel room in a fake hotel.
Texas, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21 - 25 March 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: 2016 World Educational Conference Meeting on Political & Human Violence, Social Economic Crises, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children, Child Labour
Description: This is a recurrent scam, which is being sent out under varying e-mail addresses
Texas, U.S.A. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21 - 23 March 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:2016 Annual Educational Conference Meeting on Global Aid for Women and Children, Political Crisis, Human Violence & Global Security
Description: This is a recurrent scam.
Texas, U.S.A. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
March 21 - 25, 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:Global Summit On Women's Rights, Health Diagnosis And Wellbeing Of Women
Description: This is a scam aiming to get a payment for a hotel room in a fake hotel.
USA and Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
14 - 19 March 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:Human Rights and Socio-Economic Development: A Solution to Global Terrorism
Description: This is a recurrent scam.
Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
18-22 January and 25-29 January 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: World Congress On Global Fight Against Women Rights And Human Trafficking
Description: This is a recurrent scam which always announces two similar conference indifferent location.
U.S.A. and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
January 20th-23rd 2016 and 27th-30th January 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title: International conference on Child Abuse, HIV/AIDS & MALARIA CONTROL
Description: This is a recurrent scam which always announces two similar conference indifferent location.
California, USA and Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
26-29 January 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-(UNCSD) 2016
Description: This is a recurrent scam. The goal here is most likely to get potential participants pay for a hotel reservation at a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
16 - 21 January 2016 E-mail invitation CO Title:4th Annual International Conference on Science, Climate Change, Energy, Water and Environmental Resources management (ICSCEW - 2016)
Description: This is a recurrent scam most likely aiming to get hotel reservation fees for a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
14-18 December, 2015 E-mail invitations CO Title:2015 Annual Educational Conference Meeting on Women and Children Trafficking, Political & Human Violence , Child Labour, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children.
Description: This is a very often repeated scam. In the process of registering some money will be requested, most likely for a hotel room reservation at a fake hotel. The domain aim.com used in the invitation is not a web page of the organizers/conference but rather a service that provides screen names. The e-mail invitations state:

"It is my great honor to invite you to participate with us in the 2015 Annual Educational Conference Meeting on Women and Children Trafficking, Political & Human Violence , Child Labour, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children, the 2015 Annual Educational Conference Meeting will be taking place from December 14th- 18th 2015 in Texas United States.

The Organization hosting the conference meeting will provide free air round trip ticket and visa arrangements to visit the United States for the conference meeting purpose. Registration is open and free to all interested participants. If you are interested to participate or to get more information, you are to contact the registration office directly via email: humanrightsorgoffice@aim.com"

Texas, United States Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
11-13 November, 2015 Web Page CO Title:3rd International Conference on Water Resources Energy and Climate Change
Description: The conferences organized by the Working Group on Climate Change in the U.K. are a very often repeated scam. The scam aims at getting hotel room registrations for a fake hotel. Free registration and free airplane tickets are offered to participants from developing countries. The letter confirming the application to participate requests a Hotel Reservation Receipt from a fake hotel.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
6-8 November, 2015 Web Page CO Title:OCEAN 2015
Description: The conferences organized by BIT Congress are either a very ellaborate scam or they may be of very low quality. It is noted that past conferences have documentation that is not updated and full conference programs are not published online for all conference. This gives reason to think that these are scam conferences.
Quindao, China Please inform colleagues that this might be a fraud conference.
27 - 30 OCTOBER, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:RIO+20 UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2015
Description: This is a repeated scam. The actual RIO+20 Conference took place in 2012. The scam most likely aims to collect hotel reservation costs at a fake hotel reservation page. The Email invitation is:

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Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre (QEIICC) - London, United Kingdom Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
25-26 October, 2015 Web announcement CO Title:International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ICESSD2015)
Description: The web announcement is rather unprofessional with a lot of missing information. The committees seemed to be populated with information gathered from the web. E-mail invitations are distributed after the deadline. No contact information is provided.
Bangkok, Thailand Please inform colleagues that this is most likely a fraud conference.
7 - 15 September, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:Global Summit on Economic Crisis, Child Protection & HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prostitution, Sex Work ,forced Labor,trafficking of women and children; violence against women; women's economic issues,critical issues affecting world in the 21st century governance and law, economic development, women's empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation.
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on human rights violations.
California and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
17 - 27 August, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:Joint Conference on Fight Against Disease, Child & Woman's Protection, Political Crisis & Human Violence, Trafficking and Forced Labor
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on human rights violations.
United States and in Praia Cape Verde Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
27 - 31 July, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:2015 Annual Educational Conference Meeting on Women and Children Trafficking, Political & Human Violence, Child Labour, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on human rights violations.
California, USA Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
July 13-18, 2015 and July 21-25, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:RC26 4th Joint Conference - Human Rights and Justice
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on human rights violations.
California and Dakar, Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
26 - 29 May, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:UN Summit
Description: This is a recurrent scam using the United Nations as organizer.
London Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
May 19-22, 2015 and May 25-29, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:Global Summit on Combating Emerging Infectious Diseases (GSCEID)
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on global health issues and inviting to two conferences, one in the U.DS., and one in Africa. It is interesting to note that this invitation was distributed after the dates of the two conferences.
Washington United States and in Saint-Louis Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
22 April - 2 May, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title:World Conference On Human Right
Description: This is a recurrent scam focusing on human rights violations as a main theme.
California United States and in Dakar-Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24th - 27th March, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title: RIO+20 UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2015
Description: This is a rather elaborate scam using the RIO+20 Conference that took place in 2012 as a template and point to information related to this event. The goal is most likely to colect some fees.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
April 22nd - 25th and April 27th - 2nd of May, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title: World Conference On Human Right
Description: In frequent e-mails, participants are invited to come to International Conferences on strategies and policies against Economic Crisis, Child Protection & HIV/AIDS AND EBOLA Treatment, Prostitution, Sex Work and forced Labor. Often they invite for two conferences in different parts of the world. The goal seems to be to get personal information.
California United States and in Dakar-Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
April 22nd - 25th and April 27th - 2nd of May, 2015 E-mail invitation CO Title: World Conference On Human Right
Description: In frequent e-mails, participants are invited to come to International Conferences on strategies and policies against Economic Crisis, Child Protection & HIV/AIDS AND EBOLA Treatment, Prostitution, Sex Work and forced Labor. Often they invite for two conferences in different parts of the world.
California United States and in Dakar-Senegal Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
September 16-18, 2014 http://www.bitcongress.com/wcg2014/ CO Title: 1st Annual World Congress of Geophysics (WCG-2014)
Description:The conferences announced by BitCongress are very suspicious. They may actually hold conferences, but they are most likely of no quality. We consider these conferences as fraud.
Taiyuan, China Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
September 16-19, 2014 http://globalcrisis.org/ CO Title: Four-day Global Financial and Economic Crisis forum
Description:The fake invitation is for an United Nations Summit. The web page at un-summits.org obviously points to a UN page, but is not a fully functional version. See the e-mail invitation.
London, U.K. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
August 28-30, 2014 Was at www.wrrecc.co.uk CO Title: 5th International Conference on Water Resources, renewable Energy and Climate Change
Description:These conferences with similar titles, always to be held in London are fraud. For this particular conference, contact names used were Dr Anderson Davies and his Secretary Sandra Evan (sandraevans111@gmail.com). The very typical announcement was distributed by mail. The names are most likely fake names. After they collect a few thousands of pounds, they close down the web page and e-mail addresses. It may also be that the hotel is fake, too.
London, Eastland hotel. The hotel is suspicious, too. The address given on the web page is 137 Bayswater Road, London, W24HP, UK, but on Google Map, there is no such hotel at this address. There is a Westland Hotel at 154 Bayswater Road, though. Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
August 25-29, 2014 Was announced at http://www.earth-funds.org CO Title: International forum on environmental,economic and social sustainability
Description:The Earth Advocacy Fund, most likely a fake organization, sent this invitation through email. Several people lost registration fees.
New York Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
28th-30th May, 2014 http://www.icwcre14.co.uk/ CO Title: Renewable Energy and Water Resource Conferece
Fifth International Conference on Water, Climate and Renewable Energy
Working Group on Climate Change Conference 2014
Description:This is a fraud conference announcement. Similar conferences have been announced many times by working groups with very similar names. All these conferences were supposed to be held in London, U.K.
Eastland Hotel, London, United Kingdom from Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-24 October 2013 and 26-30 October 2013 secretary.aliceannaden@gmail.com CO Title: World Conference on Human Rights (W.C.H.R) against Child Protection & HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prostitution, Sex Work and forced Labor
Description:This is a fraud conference announcement. The World Conference on Human Rights (W.C.H.R) against Child Protection & HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prostitution, Sex Work and forced Labor has been announced many times in similar ways. The current announcement, which is puplished by e-mail and in a number of facebook pages is for a fraud conference scheduled to take place from October 20th – 24th 2013 in 228 Park Avenue South New York U.S.A, and from 26th – 30th of October 2013 in Dakar-Senegal. At Dakar Conference Center Dakar-Senegal, West -Africa. The announcement states: "We are inviting people with conscience/NGO's, Individuals and cooperate organization from all countries around the world. For more information you are to contact the conference secretariat via e-mail: secretary.aliceannaden@gmail.com." The fact that there is no conference web page and a gmail address for the secretariat indicates that fraud nature.

There was actually a World Conference on Human Rights held in 1993 by the United Nations, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Conference_on_Human_Rights and the people behind the fraud announcement are using this title for their scam.

Unknown Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-25 May 2013 See the fraud invitation. WS Title: 3rd International Workshop for Development and Funding
Description:This is a fraud invitation aiming to get registration fees of $350 per person for up to four persons per organization, promising free air tickets.
Unknown Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
19-21 October 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Low Carbon Earth Summit 2012 (Five Concurrent Events-New Energy Forum)
Description:This is a fraud invitation similar to many others under a number of URLs all starting with http://www.bit..." These conferences all are announced for venues in China. For this particular conference the announcement looks professional, but when surfing through the website, one gets to a number of other domains.
Guangzhou, China Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-23 September 2012 See the first, second, and third fraud invitation. CO Title: 1st Annual World Congress of Ocean-2012 (WCO-2012)
Theme: New Wave of World Marine Economy
Description:This is a fraud invitation similar to many others under a number of URLs all starting with http://www.bit..." These conferences all are announced for venues in China. For this particular conference the announcement looks professional, but when surfing through the website, one gets to a number of other domains. Domains include http://www.bitcongress.com, http://www.bitlifesciences.com/, http://www.biteomics.com/, bit-lcesummit.com, lcesummit.com. Also, the company profile at has a number of inconsistencies.
World EXPO Center, Dalian, China Please inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference announcement. Other sites flagging these announcements as fraud are https://www.ionicviper.org/forum/bit-life-sciences-scam and http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/09/phishy-conference/.
28th August - 1st September 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Clean and Renewable Energy Conference and Climate Change (CRECCC).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. It is sent in the name of the Working Group on Climate Change, which does not exist. The announcement is signed by Dr. (Mrs.) SUSAN JOHNSON, CRECCC'12, SECRETARY. Similar conferences were previously announced rather frequently (see the many announcements included in the main list).
Previously, people who submit an abstract got a link to a web page to pay registration fees. After some time, the pages were removed by the hosting service, often after people had paid and lost money.
Not given Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
16th - 20th June 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: CLEAN ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE.
Description:This is a fraud invitation by the Working Group on Climate Change, which does not exist. They claim that “the purpose of this conference is to provide an international forum for leading experts, opinionleaders and decision-makers of the development and climate community as well as for interested members of the public to contribute their perspectives to the discussion on climate governance/global warming.” Similar conferences were previously announced several times; all at venues in London. See the list of fraud conferences fro examples. This spam activity has been going on for some time and has hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
Not given. London, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20-24 April, 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Global Conference on Clean Energy and Climate Change (GCCECC 12).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. It is sent out by the Working Group on Climate Change - 32 St James's Square, London, Greater London SW1Y 4JR, UK. Phone: +447035902516, +447024088266, which does not exist. The announcement is signed by William Reed. Similar conferences were previously announced rather frequently (see the many announcements included in the main list).
Previously, people who submit an abstract got a link to a web page to pay registration fees. After some time, the pages were removed by the hosting service, often after people had paid and lost money.
Not given Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference. A letter is being sent by Marcus Gilbert to those who mistakenly respond to the invitations, see the pdf, which again is providing fake information. The letter states different dates for the meeting than the original announcement. Several people have reported to us that they paid money and lost it. There are also attempts to get money for false hotel reservations, see example.
10-11 February 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: International Scientific Conference on Clean Energy and Climate Change (ISCCECC12).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. It is sent out by the Working Group on Climate Change - 81 East London Street, Edinburgh Midlothian, London EH74BQ,UK .Phone: +44 702 406 8488, +44 702 406 9811, which does not exist. Similar conferences were previously announced rather frequently (see the many announcements included in the main list).
Once people submit an abstract, they get the following web page to pay registartion fees: www.isccecc.co.uk. This page is a fake conference page. The link to the Working Group on Climate Change points to a page that has been removed by the hosting service.
Not given Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
10-11 February 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: International Summit on Climate Change and Economy (ISCCE 12).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. It is sent out by the Climate Change Working Committee, 12 Eaton Row Westminster, London SW1W 0JA, UK. Phone: +44 702 4092 673, +44 702 4087 911, which does not exist. Similar conferences were previously announced rather frequently (see the many announcements included in the main list).
Not given Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
20th - 24th January 2012 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Conference on Global Warming and Business 2012(ICGWB12).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. Similar conferences were previously announced rather frequently (see the many announcements included in the main list).
Kings Palace Hotel, 25 Brook St, London, W1K 4HB, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
9th - 13th December 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Global Warming and Business conference 2011 (GWB11).
Description:This is a fraud invitation. Similar conferences were previously announced as CCNT11 for September 9-13, IRECCC11 ond September 16-20, 2011, CCVT2011 on June 24 - 28, 2011 and CCWT11 for July 22-26, 2011; all at venues in London. For CCVT2011 see the spam mail available here. For CCWT11 see the invitation. This spam activity has been going on for some time and has hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
Kings Garden Hotel, 11, Upper Brook Street, West Central, London, W1K 6PB, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
21st - 25th October 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Climate Change Network Group Conference 2011(CCNG11).
Description:This is a fraud invitation by a so-called Climate Change Network Group, which does not exist. They claim that the conference is about "CCNG Conference 2011 themed “Impacts of the Global Recession on Sustainable Development", Global Warming Policy and Markets will provide a platform to discuss the future opportunities and challenges related to the design, development and commercialization of renewable energy innovation, technologies, products and services." Similar conferences were previously announced as CCNT11 for September 9-13, IRECCC11 ond September 16-20, 2011, CCVT2011 on June 24 - 28, 2011 and CCWT11 for July 22-26, 2011; all at venues in London. For CCVT2011 see the spam mail available here. For CCWT11 see the invitation. This spam activity has been going on for some time and has hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
London Garden Hotel, 20 Brook St, Westminster, London, W1K 5DE, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
24th - 28th October 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Working Group on Climate Change Conference 11 (WGCC Conference 11).
Description:This is a fraud invitation by a so-called Working Group on Climate Change, which does not exist. Similar conferences were previously announced as CCNT11 for September 9-13, IRECCC11 ond September 16-20, 2011, CCVT2011 on June 24 - 28, 2011 and CCWT11 for July 22-26, 2011 ; all at venues in London. For CCVT2011 see the spam mail available here. For CCWT11 see the invitation. This spam activity has been going on for some time and has hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
Hilton Hotels and Resorts London, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference.
September 16-20, 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Third annual International Renewable Energy Conference on Climate Change 2011(IRECCC 2011).
Description:This is a fraud invitation by a so-called Climate Change Working Group, which does not exist. Similar conferences were previously announced as CCVT2011 for June 24 - 28, 2011 and as CCWT11 for July 22-26, 2011 at venues in London. For CCVT2011 see the spam mail available here. For CCWT11 see the invitation. This spam activity has been going on for some time and hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
London, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference. We already know that several colleagues from developing countries have paid (and lost) registration fees in response to earlier invitations.
9th - 13th September 2011 See the fraud invitation. CO Title: Climate Change Network Team Conference 2011(CCNT11).
Description:This is a fraud invitation by a so-called Climate Change Network Team, which does not exist. Similar conferences were previously announced as CCVT2011 for June 24 - 28, 2011 and as CCWT11 for July 22-26, 2011 at venues in London. For CCVT2011 see the spam mail available here. For CCWT11 see the invitation. This spam activity has been going on for some time and hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
London Garden Hotel, 20 Brook St, Westminster, London, W1K 5DE, United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference. We already know that several colleagues from developing countries have paid (and lost) registration fees in response to earlier invitations.
July 22-26, 2011 See the fraud web page at http://www.ccwt11.com/. See the fraud announcement. CO Title: Climate Change Working Team Conference 2011(CCWT11).
Description:This is a fraud announcement by a so-called Climate Change Working Team, which does not exist. The conference was previously announced as CCVT2011 for the date June 24th - 28th June 2011 at the same venue; see the spam mail available here. The announcement of this previous conference, which was available at http://www.ccvt11.com has been suspended by the host service provider. This spam activity has been going on for some time and hurt many colleagues. See the information available here concerning earlier spam conferences.
Mayfair Garden Hotel, 32 Brook Street, London, W1K 5DL United Kingdom Please do inform colleagues that this is a fraud conference. We already know that several colleagues from developing countries have paid (and lost) registration fees.

Meeting Types: CO: Conference, SY: Symposium/Session, WS: Workshop, WG: Meetings of Working Group, SC: Steering Committees Meeting.


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