[afnog] Beware of scam: summer school on Internet governance Africa

[Victor NDONNANG]

Hi Dawit, 

 

I took part to latest European Summer School on Internet Governance in
Meissen Germany. We, students from Africa Region had a small discussion with
Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter Founder and Chair of the Summer School and there
is no SSIG for African Region yet. He confirmed to us that The African SSIG
is still in project level and will be probably be organized in Nairobi,
Kenya if this country host the next IGF. 

I can surely say that this web site is the scam one. I’m going to put the
Cameroon’s local community on alert about that. 

Thank you for your message.

Best regards.

Victor Ndonnang

 

De : afnog-bounces at afnog.org [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org] De la part de
Dawit Bekele
Envoyé : jeudi 5 août 2010 08:22
À : africann at afrinic.net; afnog at afnog.org; africanchapters at isoc.org;
Discuss at afrispa.org
Objet : [afnog] Beware of scam: summer school on Internet governance Africa

 

Hi all,

 

I would like to warn you about a very probable scam at
http://www.africanssig.org/first.htm.

 

The site copies the summer school on Internet governance in Latin America
and Europe that are real. It falsely claims that it is endorsed by
organizations like Internet Society and Google (amongst many others), which
it isn’t. We have contacted many of the people sited on the front page and
in the program and none of them are aware of this program.

 

The Internet Society  will follow up this matter, but in the mean time I
would like to make sure that no one in the community falls into this trap.

 

Please let me know if you have any information concerning this,

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