It sounds very fishy indeed. We ship no materials before the conference to attendees, and almost everything goes straight to the conference center anyway.
I will take this as a heads up that if for some strange reason we do for the first time, we should warn people as well. We have quite a few sponsors signed up already, the presentation kiosks are already sold out for the conference, the papers will be posted to the web site very soon, and I hope to have our line up of Keynotes settled by the end of the week (not counting any surprise attendees during the conference). Although I have only seen some of the papers for this year, they looedk like a stunning group and we have [more] panels this year for longer fuller discussions of some topics. Cheers Daniel From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: June 12, 2013 4:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Are Any Materials Shipped for WWRUG? ** I don't remember ever receiving any pre-conference materials. I am not an authoritative source but it sounds fishy. Jason On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Stroud, Natalie K <nkst...@sandia.gov> wrote: ** All: I was approved to attend this year's WWRUG for the first time ever, and I'm even planning to present! I submitted my registration at the end of May, just before the rates went up the first time. I just received this "Package Undeliverable" email notification that kinda looks like spam about a package that allegedly couldn't be delivered to me. I don't recognize the company (freightinternationalservices.com), and the wording is really vague the way spam tends to be. But the message is professionally formatted HTML, and the only thing that occurs to me that points to possible legitimacy would be if the folks from WWRUG normally send some kind of materials to conference attendees and/or conference presenters. I know that one of the addresses associated with WWRUG is in Canada, so I'm wondering if maybe they used a Canadian shipping company that we don't have here in Albuquerque. I tried Googling freightinternationalservices.com but couldn't find it. There's a Get and Print Receipt button that I'm not about to click unless I can determine that the message is legitimate. (Brain in gear before mouse in motion, and all that. ;] ) The button points to a site called oops.nagts.org, and I couldn't find that site or www.nagts.org, either, so at this point I very strongly suspect this message to be a phishing attempt. If anyone could let me know whether packages get shipped to WWRUG attendees and/or presenters, I'd be grateful for the info. Thanks, Natalie Stroud SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories ARS-ITSM Reporting Specialist Albuquerque, NM USA nkst...@sandia.gov ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 - Windows 2003 - SQL Server 2008 _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
