You were recently chosen as a potential candidate to represent your professional community in the new, 2012 Edition of Who's Who among Executives and Professionals.
The Publishing Committee selected you as a potential candidate based not only upon your current standing, but focusing as well on criteria from executive and professional directories, associations, and trade journals. Given your background, the Director believes your profile makes a fitting addition to our publication.
There is no fee to be listed. Since we are working off of secondary sources, we must receive verification from you that your profile is accurate. After receiving verification, we will validate your registry listing within one business week.
Once finalized, your listing will share registry space with tens-of-thousands of fellow accomplished individuals across the globe, each representing accomplishment within their own geographical area.
To verify your profile and accept the candidacy, please visit here. Our deadline for this selection period is June 12nd, 2012. To ensure your inclusion, we must receive verification on or before the 3th. On behalf of our Committee I salute your achievement and welcome you to our association.
Sincerely Yours,
Robert McGwire
Nomination Committee Secretary
Who's Who among Executives and Professionals
I've been getting these constantly for years, really old, really annoying. Stupid junkmail.
Thank you for this post. On June 26 the deadline was June 30, 2012 for a nearly identical e-mail.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I got the same identical email and have been receiving for quite some time now.
ReplyDeleteIt sounded believable because the authentic who is who had approached me some years back.
I would also like to say thank you. I have been getting them for sometime as well and have been deleting them as well. I can also tell you that the real Who is Who will contact you via snail mail as they did me a few years back.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what you mean by the "real" Who's Who. There are many different Who's Who publications by a variety of publishers. Years ago, I was listed in quite a few (and probably still am), but I've always been very careful to avoid those that are scams (which are the majority of them). You are right that a legitimate Who's Who publication does everything through the postal mail. Furthermore, you are not required to purchase the book in order to be listed. Anytime you must purchase the book, it is a scam. Period. I avoid all of these Who's Who in email as the links are always suspect. They do not go to where they say they go.
what a jerk!
ReplyDeleteyeah, like the one i got from one Godson asking me to pay 10,000 naira for them to "authenticate" my profile for a presumed job interview. all these rascals go to so much length to make a monkey of themselves. unfortunately, so many people falls victims to such scams out of desperation of sheer foolishness.
ReplyDeletethe scammers full alias is GODSON SAMUEL with e-mail-godsonsamuel947@gmail.com any mail from this source is a big scam
ReplyDeleteThank you. I thought it was a scam when I read it, also. Don;t trust a whole lot of unsolicited emails I receive anyway.
ReplyDeleteI just received an identical email and knew it was suspect. Thank you for your post above which confirms this fraudlent email.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. I have received a similar mail. Always helpful to see such blogs
ReplyDeletejust now I received this email, thank you very much for this post,
ReplyDeletethank to hell with their who is who
ReplyDeleteJust received it as well. A harrasment suit needs to be filed
ReplyDeleteJust received this one:
ReplyDeleteDear Fellow Professional,
You were recently chosen as a potential candidate to represent your professional community in the new, 2013 Edition of Search the Elite.
The Publishing Committee selected you as a potential candidate based not only upon your current standing, but focusing as well on criteria from executive and professional directories, associations, and trade journals. Given your background, the Director believes your profile makes a fitting addition to our publication.
There is no fee to be listed. Since we are working off of secondary sources, we must receive verification from you that your profile is accurate. After receiving verification, we will validate your registry listing within one business week.
Once finalized, your listing will share registry space with tens-of-thousands of fellow accomplished individuals across the globe, each representing accomplishment within their own geographical area.
To verify your profile and accept the candidacy, please visit here. Our deadline for this selection period is June 30, 2013. To ensure your inclusion, we must receive verification on or before this date. On behalf of our Committee I salute your achievement and welcome you to our association.
Sincerely Yours,
Robert McGwire
Nomination Committee Secretary
Search the Elite
Got this today...
ReplyDeleteDear {had my email address in here},
You were recently chosen as a potential candidate to represent your professional community in the 2013 Edition of Global Who’s Who.
We are pleased to notify you that your candidacy was formally approved April 3rd, 2013. Congratulations!
The Publishing Committee selects you as a potential candidate, based upon your current standing as well as criteria from executive and professional rosters. Given your background, the Publishing Director believes your profile would make a fitting addition to our publication.
As we are working off of secondary sources, we must receive verification from you that your profile is accurate. After receiving verification, we will validate your online listing within 7 business days.
There is no fee or cost to be included.
To verify your profile and accept the candidacy, please click here.
On behalf of our Committee I salute your achievements and welcome you to our association.
welcome.this is a scam.i got it very convincing.beware of this smart conmen
ReplyDeleteI got this email today and at first thought it was legitimate because it looked legit for a couple reasons. It looked professional and linked to a professional looking website. There were more reasons as well, such as it used my first name, I spent seven years in the banking community, several as a business analyst, and have made tons of contacts so it was certainly possible that one of them could have recommended me. However four years ago I suffered viral encephalitis and went into a coma for 74 days, have undergone multiple surguries and have been in rehab and physical therapy ever since. While I can't wait to get back to work, I have not been physically able to yet. So despite all of my contacts, many of which I maintain, this email seemed odd. So with a little internet search this site helped tremendously. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to post here. It helps on issues such as these.
ReplyDeleteSeems like an increase in these type of scam emails might be linked to online job searching. I had received nearly none until I began looking at jobs at online. Also I have a proprietary email address from my own domain (i.e. not ATT, Comcast, AOL, MSN etc.). Do most of you also have your own domain or did it use your business email address?
ReplyDeleteThis Robert McGwire also is involved with this International Directory of Professionals, which I'm receiving spam for for the 2013 edition. While these directories do exist, the underlying plan is to rip off the receiver. By falling for this scam, the receiver instead is displaying gullibility. Having your name in these directories signifies absurdity and these plaques are a personalized reminder, too. Anyone and everyone can get these messages, regardless if you're unemployed. Having anything advertised by the directory won't get you anything but cheated out of money. Look up the address it's sent from and the S. Lemon Blvd address in the message. Executive Who's Who, thanks, but no thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for confirming my suspicious feeling.
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