The 'EGO' email scam personal exercise

What is it like when you get an email scam that just seems a little bit different?

Here the latest one. This at least looks from an emotional and psychological point of view at 'ego' read on to see how Person Centred Consultancies was sucked in a little prior to processing of ego.

The scam INVITES me to one of two conferences on Children, Young People and Human Rights in California or Senegal, all expenses paid type thing. You are invited to attend and we saw your website at another NGO website.. blah blah, contact us to arrange your registration / and or speaker status etc.

ego wakes up! at this point. After processing charity and voluntray sector GUILT and RESPONSIVENESS GAGUE lol, I worked out the following:

This is just an organised scam. The email I got today,stated they had found me on a NGO website. Their conference does not exist.

This massages the ego, that you have been 'invited' and because the subject matter is of great concern to all of us working with young people or those at most risk, we are tuned into wanting to help. This is how our work in our sector develops. This 'big heart tuning in' to those in need.

This is what they are playing on. I'm a counsellor in the UK and thought oh goodness I'm being asked to attend beacuse they have read a great deal about my work in this field. Because my services are clearly matched with their target group.

Goodness. I stopped and re read everything again and thought, WHY ask ME? What is so special about me in that I feel I am being asked to attend and as they say 'represent' my whole country. I am hardly the best, most qualified person to do this. I've only got my website up and running (and needs work on too) recently.


I was simply spammed from my contacts page.

I laughed also about feeling my ego get shoved straight back in it's box too. lol.. very very good psychological and emotional tactics here in this scam.

If a person is that good about what they do then surely THEY would be running their own conference?

For other email scamns like this ask yourself a question:

What's so special about me? Why should I be 'invited'? If there was someone I would love to hear at a conference on such a matter, would it be ME? When you have answered this and let go of 'ego', logic comes flooding through.

If you are still not sure, then answer the same questions again with 'ego' (ego is a good motivator) and USE This to set up your own conference!

here's a link to show others have been alerted to it.


www.Person-Centred-Consultancies.com

regards Tish(Patricia)Mata

Director Person Centred Consultancies