Fake Conference Advertisement
It has come to our attention that a false event (ICCSET) has been advertised as taking place at Chestnut Residence on June 15 and 16, 2015. A notice about this scam advisory has been placed on Chestnut’s Official Website at this link. The website in question, waset.org, appears to be fake, although very elaborate in nature. The scam targets academics internationally, gathering papers, fees, registration information, and potentially other personal information.
ITS has identified 86 more websites hosted on the same IP address, and they all appear to be associated with academics in one fashion or another. At this time, it is unclear if all the aforementioned websites are malicious in nature.
What can you do about this?
ITS asks all IT professionals to please inform faculty about this (and similar) scams. Although this scam does not appear to be new, it does not seem to have the visibility amongst its potential victims that it should.
If you visited this website and provided information, please contact your local IT support for further assistance
Source: http://main.its.utoronto.ca/news/fake-conference-advertisement/
However our blog fakeconferences.blogspot.com has warned the academic community very early about the fake / bogus organization WASET:
http://fakeconferences.blogspot.com/2014/02/waset-word-crime-is-poor-to-describe.html
http://fakeconferences.blogspot.com/2014/11/fake-conferences-of-waset.html