Great News!You are Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Doubtless a different "Esme Lennon is an indie author from England. Her
love for reading first started on Wattpad, where she read a few too
many Marvel fanfics, and also began her writing journey."

[occam]

Post by Athel Cornish-Bowden
I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Do you think this could be a deliberate ploy, to convince you that they
urgently need an Editor-in-chief?

[Sam Plusnet]

Post by occam

Post by Athel Cornish-Bowden
I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Do you think this could be a deliberate ploy, to convince you that they
urgently need an Editor-in-chief?

They evidently need the whole tribe, not just the chief.

P.S. Someone who knew no English could write something, put it through
an on-line translation process, and end up with a far better result than
the text Athol quoted.

[Snidely]

Post by Sam Plusnet

Post by occam

Post by Athel Cornish-Bowden
I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Do you think this could be a deliberate ploy, to convince you that they
urgently need an Editor-in-chief?

They evidently need the whole tribe, not just the chief.
P.S. Someone who knew no English could write something, put it through an
on-line translation process, and end up with a far better result than the
text Athol quoted.

But perhaps this is crafted to avoid spam filters.

-d

[Sam Plusnet]

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Post by Sam Plusnet

Post by occam

Post by Athel Cornish-Bowden
I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Do you think this could be a deliberate ploy, to convince you that they
urgently need an Editor-in-chief?

They evidently need the whole tribe, not just the chief.
P.S.  Someone who knew no English could write something, put it
through an on-line translation process, and end up with a far better
result than the text Athol quoted.

But perhaps this is crafted to avoid spam filters.

Possibly?? I have no idea how spam filters are crafted.

[Snidely]

I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are Highly
Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I received
yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !; "Highly" used
weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens in "Editor in
Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The message itself goes on at
length about what an honour this is, and the benefits of servicing, but never
gets around to mentioning what journal I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.

Are you sure that "servicing" is an error? Perhaps if you become
Editor-In_Chief, they will change your oil.

Doubtless a different "Esme Lennon is an indie author from England. Her love
for reading first started on Wattpad, where she read a few too many Marvel
fanfics, and also began her writing journey."

No doubt a 15th cousin.

/dps

[lfs]

Post by Athel Cornish-Bowden
I count five errors of English usage in the title (Great News!You are
Highly Invited for Servicing as a Editor in Chief) of a message that I
received yesterday from someone called Esme Lennon: no space after !;
"Highly" used weirdly; "Servicing" for serving; "a Editor"; no hyphens
in "Editor in Chief". Not bad for such a short piece of text. The
message itself goes on at length about what an honour this is, and the
benefits of servicing, but never gets around to mentioning what journal
I'm invited to be Editor-in-Chief of.
Doubtless a different "Esme Lennon is an indie author from England. Her
love for reading first started on Wattpad, where she read a few too
many Marvel fanfics, and also began her writing journey."

Oh, I get those too. I have toyed with the idea of replying to see what
special type of scam is directed at the vanity of academics.

Trapped at Heathrow recently, waiting for luggage which an hour after we
landed had still not left the aircraft, I posted an angry message to BA
on Twitter. This elicited an immediate response inviting me to reply to
a message - which looked entirely genuine - supplying a number on which
I could be reached. The call that followed was from someone with an
accent which, coupled with my deafness, made conversation impossible and
I realised that this must be a scam so ended the call and blocked the
number.

When we and our luggage finally found our driver and were en route home,
I received another call from someone who wanted to give me a £500 refund
to compensate for the delay. I was intrigued so I played along to see
how the process worked. It was quite clever. Using a reputable money
transfer platform, they asked me to download its app and explained that
they had already set up an account in my name. When I pointed out that I
was named as the transferor not the transferee, a very detailed
explanation was offered, which if you knew nothing about money transfers
might have been convincing. At that point I ended the call again but I
can quite see how someone in a difficult travel situation could be
easily confused. But the idea that BA would offer a compensation payment
was a little far fetched...