The Nigerian Letter Scam arrives on Linkedin

Today I received a linkedin from A Marcus Elliker, Owner Import and Export from the Ivory Coast. I've been a big fan of the Nigerian letter scam (Dear Sir, $24021350 Million are waiting for you, just wire $10,000 now to get started) for years, be it in Email or via real letter (my dad has been receiving them for decades).
This is the first time I've gotten one on Linkedin - so congrats to Mr Elliker for being a cutting edge, 2.0 scamster!

Here's the screenshot:

Marketingsherpa Email Conference 2007

On Monday I spoke at the Marketingsherpa Email Conference in Miami as part of the keynote panel on testing. It was a sold-out conference with about 500 attendees from all over the US and some from Europe and the rest of the world. The quality of the audience overall was very good but some of the presentations could have been less basic and aimed at the more educated Email Marketer. The conference in Chicago last year which I also spoke at was definitely a notch above this year's.
The overall question some of us asked ourselves was whether there should even be a separate conference on Email Marketing or whether Etail etc. wouldn't be more appropriate. We're really working in a multichannel environment now and Email as a standalone won't give you much without a strong website and possible catalogs or stores.