CIO Summits e-mailed me again - Phishing Scam

Those CIO Summit people are really tenacious. I got another letter from them today. I was looking for the original I received a few months ago, but I couldn't find it. I was going to post both of them here, but I'll just post today's.

Chris H Sanders <chrissanderscio1122@gmail.com>
to (an e-mail address format my company stopped using 7 years ago)

Dear 419er,

I wanted to reach out and see if you would like to become a part of a Technology Leaders group, we think that you would be a great addition.

Our next meeting is on 8/16 and we also have upcoming meeting  9/13. The CIOs that will present their best practices and ideas include Reader’s Digest, Deloitte and Harley-Davidson. We meet once per month via teleconference and the meetings typically last for an hour.

See cio-summits.net to become a part of the group. Just enter the letters CS3 in the comments field of the signup form to indicate that I asked you. Due to limited space I would advise that you become a part of the group before our next meeting on 8/16, thank you.

Kind Regards,

Chris H. Sanders

Technology Leaders

Reply with subject Re move if wished

600  North  Park,  17th Floor

Atlanta,  Georgia  30328

For those of you not well-versed in the detection of Phishing - here are some telltale signs: 

1. Old e-mail address.  We're talking about technology experts here - yet they have my name from a 7 year old e-mail address.
2. Gmail address.  Can you really imagine a Technology Leader at a place purported to be the "CIO Summit" using a Gmail address like that?  He's not even smart enough to obfuscate it.
3. That isn't a valid mailing address.  600 Northpark is a building, not an address. The address for that building is 1200 Abernathy or something - which - while looking up the address - turned up several other blog postings about this place being a known Phishing and spam house.
4. I'm not going to play grammarian too much here, but over 50% of the sentences in that e-mail contain a serious error.  (There is only one comma in the first sentence, and it should have been a period.  ...we also have upcoming meeting 9/13.) (and yes - before you say it - I probably have errors in this post too - but consider this:  First, I'm not purporting to represent a group of CIOs or recruiting you to spend money with me. Second, I'm well aware of Muphry's Law.)
5. The sense of urgency.  Their next meeting is - holy crap - in two days! They want me  to make sure and NOT think about details like this and just say "whoa - I'm so important they want me to be a Technology Leader" and spend your money.

 In conclusion - I'm going to respond to Chris H. Sanders. I'll post my response to him - and anything he sends back to me, soon.