Unfortunately they are increasingly representing themselves as being part of . the SCALE team; or a group we contracted. While it is annoying and damaging to our brand/reputation, there is not much we can do.
We do not sell lists or attendee info. This is a fairly common scam. As you dig in you find they're all fronts for "marketing" companies in India and South East Asia. Occasionally they have addresses in the US, which all turn outt o be weworks or regis rented offices.
We aren't t he only conference that receives these: http://www.nicva.org/article/spam-email-offering-supposed-attendee-list-for-... http://old.affiliatesummit.com/beware-companies-not-related-affiliate-summit... https://aas.org/posts/news/2018/10/hucksters-spammers-scammers-wow
To give you a sense of how bad they are at their jobs, I get emails daily from them on my SCALE email offering to sell me attendee lists for SCALE. Maybe they dont think we have backups of our reg system and want to help out?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:16 PM der.hans < Verteiler+scale-planning@lufthans.com> wrote:
moin moin,
FYI, just got this from two LOPSA mailing lists. I believe something similar came in via a debian list a couple weeks ago.
ciao,
der.hans
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:09:22 -0500 From: Sharon Scott sharon.scott@eventspronews.com To: discuss@lopsa.org Subject: [lopsa-discuss] SCALE Attendees Update 2019
Hi,
Hope you having a great day.
I am glad you are exhibiting in Southern California Linux Expo - 2019.
We have a total 3,600 Attendees, I wanted to check if you would be interested in acquiring the attendees list to drive traffic to your booth?
We provide contact information including : Company name, URL/web address, Contacts name, Job titles, Mailing address, phone number and direct email address.
Please review the Details below:
Total Contacts - 3,600
List Delivery - XLS/CSV
Let me know if you need any additional information and are you only looking for Southern California Linux Expo - 2019 list or you also have any other list requirements that we can service?
Kind Regards,
Sharon Scott
Demand Generation
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