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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nigel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Mr Nigel T. Monaghan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Keeper – Natural History Division,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">National Museum of Ireland
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<span style="color:black">Natural History,</span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Merrion St. Dublin 2, Ireland.<br>
D02 F627<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">T: +353-1-6486-354 | M: +353 87 7985570<br>
</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://www.museum.ie/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Website</span></a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"> | </span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="https://www.museum.ie/Corporate-Media/Social-Media"><span style="color:blue">Social
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Group Bookings should be addressed to
<a href="mailto:bookings@museum.ie"><span style="color:black">bookings@museum.ie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Research visitors must make appointments in advance of any proposed visit.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Visit: Jurassic Skies – When dinosaurs took to the air
<a href="https://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Arts-History/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Jurassic-Skies-When-Dinosaurs-Took-to-the-Air">
<span style="color:black">https://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Arts-History/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Jurassic-Skies-When-Dinosaurs-Took-to-the-Air</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Virtual Visit: See our 3D interiors at
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/natural-history-3d-virtual-visit.aspx"><span style="color:black">http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/natural-history-3d-virtual-visit.aspx</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Watch: We are one of the Dublin stories on
<a href="http://www.storymap.ie/"><span style="color:black">www.storymap.ie</span></a> also at
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunX2u_mQWw"><span style="color:black">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunX2u_mQWw</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Read: Guide to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, €5.95 from Museum Shops<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Poetry:
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Dead Zoo – a whole book of poetry
<a href="http://www.gallerypress.com/shop/#!/~/product/id=28033815"><span style="color:black">http://www.gallerypress.com/shop/#!/~/product/id=28033815</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Member: Merrion Square Network
<a href="http://www.merrionsquare.ie/"><span style="color:black">www.merrionsquare.ie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"> Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richardson, M.K.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 January 2019 15:08<br>
<b>To:</b> 'nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu' <nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Nepal vistiing researcher scam revisited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleague ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black">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! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Kind regards,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT Condensed",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:NL">Prof. dr . Michael Richardson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Professor of Animal Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">I am a developmental biologist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">I work on
<b>chicken</b> and <b>reptile</b> <b>development</b> and <b>evolution</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">I am interested in the chicken embryo as an
<b>alternative model</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Institute of Biology, Leiden University (IBL), Sylvius Laboratory (room 6.5.14b), Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Tel. (0031) 071 527 5215<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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