Seminar spam often competes with fake invoice spam for the top position in Chinese language spam. Chinese seminar spam is sent out in a manner that is similar to a legitimate and regular business training course or seminar/presentation invitation. Like any real seminar, Chinese seminar spam identifies the purpose, location, time, and workshop details. Application fees and contact information are required to access the “offer.” Chinese seminar spam often takes a similar pattern to Chinese language fake invoice spam as outlined in an earlier blog post. We’ve seen Chinese language seminar spam evolve from using plain text, Microsoft Word, PDFs, and graphic attachments in the last five years in varied attempts to bypass antispam filters.
Those who are interested in this particular type of seminar and/or training may sign up to attend, but unfortunately they will likely find themselves as the only attendants at the seminar.