Fake Conference Attendee Contact Lists Being Sold

Fake email conference attendee contact lists are being sold and the latest targeted conference appears to be Pubcon Las Vegas. Emails that are going out to what a NextGenExpos thinks is a list of exhibitors seeks to sell that they’re calling a contact list of an updated attendees list. I am not an exhibitor at Pubcon Las Vegas 2019–although for some reason I received an email from this company as if I’m currently exhibiting at the conference.

Email Selling a Fake Contact List

Even though I’m not an exhibitor, here’s an email from someone named Susan Dauber from Next Gen Expos
:
From: Susan Dauber
Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 1:53 PM
To: Bill Hartzer
Subject: Pubcon Las Vegas 2019 Show Mailing List

Dear Exhibitors,

We wish you a great success in the forthcoming exhibition.

Pubcon Las Vegas October 7-10, 2019 updated attendees List is Available now.

Use of the mailing list is meant to facilitate your company’s pre-show and post-show marketing efforts with the License Agreement allows for a unlimited of the list.

Qualified Data Field includes: Company Name, Web Address, Contact Name, Job Title, Mailing Address, Phone Number, and Industry, SIC Code, Company Mailing address with Zip Code, Fax Number, Industry Classification, Website URL along with verified business email address.

These contact list will be delivered in Excel format which can be used for telemarketing, direct marketing, and email marketing initiatives etc.

Please let me know your thoughts, as it will be my pleasure to share you the counts and pricing of the lists.

Looking back to hearing from you.

Regards,
Susan Dauber
Pubcon Las Vegas- Event Specialist.
October 7-10, 2019| Las Vegas

As you can see, this “Susan Dauber” appears to represent themselves as being an event specialist from Pubcon Las Vegas. I have verified with the Pubcon team that they didn’t send out this email–and they’ve mentioned on their Facebook Group that they’re not pitching or selling the list of attendees. In fact, anything that this company would have is nowhere near the actual list.

I did some digging around, and, as you can see, the email address is from someone at “nextgenexpos.com”, which is NOT EVEN INDEXED in Google currently:

And the website is not up and running–it’s showing an under construction page.

Beware of any company or emails that you’re sent from any organization claiming that they have the email list or contact list of all the attendees of a conference, whether or not it’s Pubcon Las Vegas or not. I’ve received emails from similar organizations selling attendee lists for conferences such as Digital Summit. Just like Digital Summit, these are fake email contact attendee lists. They generally aren’t reliable, and I wouldn’t spend any money purchasing these lists. With the conference season in full swing now, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the last email like this that I receive this year.

B2B Marketing Expo California

This same “Susan Dauber” is at it again, sending emails to people who they think are exhibiting at the B2B Marketing Expo California conference. Again, a similar email, but with a different domain name, excelbixtechs.com:

Dear Exhibitors,

We wish you a great success in the forthcoming exhibition.

B2B Marketing Expo California 02-03 October 2019 updated attendees List is Available now.

Use of the mailing list is meant to facilitate your company’s pre-show and post-show marketing efforts with the License Agreement allows for a unlimited of the list.

Attendees: CEO’s, CMO’S, Marketing Directors, Head of Marketing, Marketing Managers, Marketing Executives, Suppliers, Group Marketing Directors, Key Decision Makers and many more…

Qualified Data Field includes: Company Name, Web Address, Contact Name, Job Title, Mailing Address, Phone Number, and Industry, SIC Code, Company Mailing address with Zip Code, Fax Number, Industry Classification, Website URL along with verified business email address.

These contact list will be delivered in Excel format which can be used for telemarketing, direct marketing, and email marketing initiatives etc.

Please let me know your thoughts, as it will be my pleasure to share you the counts and pricing of the lists.

Looking back to hearing from you.

Regards,
Susan Dauber
B2B Marketing Expo California -Event Specialist.
October 02-03, 2019 | Los Angeles

Beware of any company or emails that you’re sent from any organization claiming that they have the email list or contact list of all the attendees of a conference, whether or not it’s the B2B Marketing Expo California or not.