[Nhcoll-l] Nepal vistiing researcher scam revisited

[Monaghan, Nigel]

We get regular email approaches from people in countries where it is obvious that the only issue at stake is securing a visa. We don’t know anything about them, they don’t seem to know anything about us. Applications can take the form of asking to ‘register for your conference’, or seek to come on a ‘study visit’ but it is a common scam in my experience. To aid visa applications it is usual for them to request that you invite them. With an invitation they can argue for a visa as they ‘have been invited’ to your country by a reputable local i.e. ‘your museum name here’.

The common alarm bell factor in the several examples I have dealt with personally is the request for you to invite them. Some have actually had credible looking websites, but never an email address of a corporate nature.

A standard approach we use in my museum is to ask such delegations to contact you by going through their own embassy – all applications disappear without trace…

Nigel

Mr Nigel T. Monaghan,
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From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Richardson, M.K.
Sent: 09 January 2019 15:08
To: 'nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu' <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Nepal vistiing researcher scam revisited

Dear Colleague ,

I saw your warning online about possible Nepal scammers. We too were emailed by ‘scientists’ from a website called Reco-Nepal, asking if they could visit us. I was taken in, at first, but then it all seemed a bit fishy when I thought it through. Indeed, their website is not credible, in my opinion. So, thanks for posting your warning. It is consonnant with our experience. They wasted a good few hours of my time -- before the scales fell from my eyes!

Kind regards,
Michael

Prof. dr . Michael Richardson
Professor of Animal Development

I am a developmental biologist
I work on chicken and reptile development and evolution
I am interested in the chicken embryo as an alternative model

Institute of Biology, Leiden University (IBL), Sylvius Laboratory (room 6.5.14b), Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel. (0031) 071 527 5215



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