BANGKOK, 19 September 2022: Can you make a living as a scammer? They seem to be scrapping the bottom of the barrel when they ask you to buy a Pacific Asia Travel Association mailing list. Have they fallen on hard times like the rest of us?
They are, if nothing else, a persistent bunch. The latest scam weaves a web around the mailing list of the PATA Annual Summit due to unfold in the UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah in October. The offer drops in our email boxes, promising 1,000 addresses for an event that will be lucky if it has 300 registered delegates. What happened to Nigeria’s letters offering a windfall from a state minister on the run?
But a few folks forwarded the messages asking if PATA knew the fraudsters had the association’s treasured mailing lists in their crosshairs.
It’s reassuring to know PATA has run a warning paragraph on its website for the last few months. It reads: “Please be aware that any emails claiming to sell our mailing lists are fraudulent. We advise you to disregard such messages to protect yourself from loss.”
It posts the warning on the website page https://www.pata.org/calendar/pata-annual-summit-2022
It’s also good to know PATA is up to speed on scams offering delegate mailing lists for several of its other events. It elaborates. “For instance, we have seen one email claiming the list of delegates for the recent PATA Destination Marketing Forum in Songkhla contained over 1,000 contacts. As you know from the press release that we…
