I guess every profession has its own kind of personalized spam. Here is a couple of recent samples from my own:
- From a Fermilab address: "According to the TRAIN database training for course FN000508 / CR - Workplace Violence and Active Shooter/Active Threat Awareness Training expired on 07/01/2014. Please make arrangements to take this class. If this training is no longer required then you or your supervisor should complete the Individual Training Needs Assessment [...]"
Note that
(1) I am not a user any longer, so their database is at fault. They still send out these notifications anyway.
(2) Workspace violance and active shooter ??? I never took a course like that, so the fact that it has expired is kind of odd. Also, who the hell needs such a course ? I live in Italy, not in the far west
- From "MANPP2014": "Dear ,
We find that your research results have had an impressive impact in the field of academic research, we are pleased to bring Int'l Conf. on on Molecular, Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics (MANPP 2014) and Int'l Conf. on Radiation Effects and Radiation Protection (RERP 2014) to you. Both of them will be held from August 26 to 28, 2014 in Suzhou, China, the final submission date is July 9, 2014. If you have unpublished papers in hand and have the idea of making our conference a vehicle for your research interests, please submit your manuscripts to this conference through paper submission system without hesitation."
Unfortunately I get dozens of messages such as the one above. As if I did not pay enough attention to conferences worth attending...
To be continued!
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