John Connell: The Blog

I received this email today:

Can­di­date,

As you are more then likely aware, you were recently selected for inclu­sion in the 2011 edi­tion of the Who’s Who Among Exec­u­tives and Pro­fes­sion­als. Despite our efforts, we have not yet received con­fir­ma­tion of your bio­graph­i­cal pro­file, and are reach­ing out to you again in an effort to do so.

The tra­di­tion of the Who’s Who reaches back more then 100 years to a time when the pres­ti­gious and accom­plished were fea­tured in a yearly pub­li­ca­tion that defined high soci­ety. Today, the Who’s Who pro­vides a use­ful resource where busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als, aca­d­e­mics, and Exec­u­tives are both rec­og­nized for their achieve­ments and pro­vided with an unpar­al­leled net­work­ing resource. Using our data­base, you can make global con­tacts, dis­cuss cur­rent events and hap­pen­ings with your peers, and estab­lish your­self as either a men­tor to aspir­ing pro­fes­sion­als or fur­ther your busi­ness network.

Our goal is to seek out the pre­mier exec­u­tives and pro­fes­sion­als through­out the world. There is absolutely no cost or oblig­a­tion for your bio­graph­i­cal pro­file. Sim­ply click this link to fill out the appro­pri­ate bio­graph­i­cal fields,

Sin­cerely,

Eric John­son
CEO

Who’s Who Among Exec­u­tives and Pro­fes­sion­als
119 Cham­bers Street
15^th Floor
New York, NY 10007

A quick check led me to the Fraud Pre­ven­tion Unit blog.

I will not be respond­ing to this over­ture any time soon.

As Jim Royle might say, “Top Exec­u­tive, my arse!”

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§ 2 Responses to I’m a Top Executive, Get Me Out of Here!"

• Robynne says:

  December 19, 2010 at 2:51 pm

  I received the same invi­ta­tion. The dif­fer­ence is that it was fol­lowed up by a tele­phone call a week later.

  Being a cau­tious per­son, I too checked and saved myself a lot of trouble

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• Annemarie Robbertse says:

  December 28, 2010 at 7:43 pm

  I also received an email from them, but I made the mis­take to fill in my details! I deleted so many spam emails over the Fes­tive Sea­son, I thought this was real! I’m the owner of my own busi­ness and things really started hap­pen­ing for me the last year and silly me thought this was real… well, now I know my spam folder is going to be FLOODED.

  Wish­ful think­ing and dream­ing never killed any­one… did it?!?!?!?

  Annemarie Rob­bertse
  Vir­tual Assis­tant, VA Men­tor and Trainer

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