[Scale-planning] [lopsa-discuss] SCALE Attendees Update 2019 (fwd)

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

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-fake-nicva-event
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 at 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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> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:09:22 -0500
> From: Sharon Scott <sharon.scott at eventspronews.com>
> To: discuss at lopsa.org
> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] SCALE Attendees Update 2019
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> Hi,
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> Hope you having a great day.
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> I am glad you are exhibiting in Southern California Linux Expo - 2019.
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> 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?
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> We provide contact information including : Company name, URL/web address,
> Contacts name, Job titles, Mailing address, phone number and direct email
> address.
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> Please review the Details below:
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> Total Contacts             - 3,600
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> List Delivery                 - XLS/CSV
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> 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?
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> Kind Regards,
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> Sharon Scott
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