<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The same thing happened to me last November. I was invited to the Int’l Construction Grammar Conference in Gothenburg. Like you, I contacted the organizers and they said it was fraudulent.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bill<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 26, 2024, at 4:37 AM, Pier Marco Bertinetto <piermarco.bertinetto@sns.it> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">below you can read a mail that I got today, which apparently is a new form of fraud. I would like to bring it to the attention of any conference organizer. It might be reiterated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is how it works: they saw my name as an invited speaker at a conference and wrote to me about the accommodation. The obvious aim was to make me pay for the room reservation.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I sensed something strange and I contacted the organizers who warned me of the fraud.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">To conclude: if you have announced a conference (or will do so in the future), tell your invited speakers to be alerted of this risk.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Pier Marco<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">*******</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Pier,<br>
Kindly inform us of your arrival and departure dates in Toulouse to secure the space for your stay this May for the conference.<br>
If the itinerary isn't confirmed yet, it's a flexible reservation that can be modified or cancelled without any additional fees.<br>
This risk-free cancellation option will be valid up until 14 days before the check-in date.<br>
Thus, kindly get back to us so we can send you the hotel booking form and confirm the reservation.<br>
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