One of the attendees at OSCon this year (according to the Who's Who list) was:
A**M A***YAI
4, OY***JO STREET IGBOBI
F**EYI
LAGOS 23401
Nigeria
fineb**y4life@yahoo.com
(obfuscated to try and comply with the rules at the top of the Whos Who list - but the record is in ALL CAPS)
Coincidence, joke, or just spammers trying to mingle?
Registered, or attended?
dws on 2004-08-11T15:39:34
Until there's a confirmed sighting, I'd be suspicious. We've had a few attempts by people in, uh, notorious locations to register for a conference I'm involved in, and they all want an invitation letter so they can get a travel visa, but their credit cards never seem to work.
Munich, Paris, Amsterdam and probably Belfast too
Beatnik on 2004-08-11T16:15:24
There were some similar names on the Who's Who for the YAPC::Eu's I went to. It reminds me of the story of nigerian golfers not showing up at a tournament.
sounds familiar
pflanze on 2004-08-31T13:32:19
I've heard that the oscom.org conference organisators have been faced with the same phenomena in the past (and IIRC also currently, I've seen a news item somewhere - or ask gregor on #oscom at freenode.net for details): people from southern countries who subscribe as speakers with some bad quality proposal just to get a visa, but then never turn up.
