Hi Frances, See the message below. The email addresses have been removed. However, do not expect that this will change anything. Making any information about our conference available to the public makes these types of scams possible. The best action would be to kindly ask our speakers to ignore these messages.
Thanks!
Craig
From: Kyle Holz kholz@nebraska.edu Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 2:51 PM To: Craig Eiting ceiting@nebraska.edu Subject: Re: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Hey Craig!
I've got those email addresses removed from the website. I also looked up the website for Exhibition Hub and they seem to at least have been an entity for a while so the fact the original emailer is using the company name @gmail.com leads me to believe this is a scammer attempting to spoof a company that hasn't had a presence post-covid.
Unfortunately, this appears to be a case of someone scraping the website and using targeted attempts towards listed members of the conference. The primary way to defend against this would be to have the information hidden behind a login, however, we don't have those capabilities currently for non University affiliated individuals.
Even with a login though, we have the individuals and their photos posted so cross-referencing them with an email address for the company they work at wouldn't be an extraordinary lift if an individual/group wanted to target them.
Thank You!
Kyle Holz (he, him, his) Web Developer
University of Nebraska System
215 Nebraska Hall
901 N 17th St.
Lincoln, NE 68588
kholz@nebraska.edumailto:kholz@nebraska.edu [university of nebraska logo lockup with campuses]
________________________________ From: Craig Eiting <ceiting@nebraska.edumailto:ceiting@nebraska.edu> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 2:23 PM To: Kyle Holz <kholz@nebraska.edumailto:kholz@nebraska.edu> Subject: FW: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Hi Kyle,
See the messages below. We have had another request to remove all the email addresses from our conference website. Could you please take care of this when you get a moment?
The list of attendees to the conference is not public knowledge. If you have any ideas on how to resolve these issues, just let me know.
Thanks!
Craig
From: Frances Hayes <fhayes@nebraska.edumailto:fhayes@nebraska.edu> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 2:18 PM To: Craig Eiting <ceiting@nebraska.edumailto:ceiting@nebraska.edu> Cc: Amber Poythress <apoythress@nebraska.edumailto:apoythress@nebraska.edu> Subject: FW: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Hi Craig,
Please do have Kyle remove email address information for speakers from our website ASAP. Thanks!
Frances Hayes
Director of Communications and Public Relations
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraskahttp://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/
Nebraska Innovation Campus
2021 Transformation Dr. | Ste 3220 | Lincoln, NE 68588
e: fhayes@nebraska.edumailto:fhayes@nebraska.edu | p: +1 402.472.9510
Newshttps://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/news-and-events | Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/waterforfoodinstitute | YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/WaterForFood | Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/waterforfood/ | LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/waterforfood
[Text Description automatically generated]https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/
From: Frances Hayes <fhayes@nebraska.edumailto:fhayes@nebraska.edu> Date: Monday, March 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM To: Ringler, Claudia (IFPRI) <C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORGmailto:C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORG> Cc: Amber Poythress <apoythress@nebraska.edumailto:apoythress@nebraska.edu> Subject: Re: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Thanks for sending this along, Claudia!
We received a similar forwarded email from another speaker and have verified with our conference platform that conference attendees’ information is not visible, and I can assure you that 2460 people have not registered for the conference! I believe this is just a spam email to ignore but we’re doing our due diligence to keep that information internal.
Apologies for the trouble,
Frances Hayes
Director of Communications and Public Relations
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraskahttp://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/
Nebraska Innovation Campus
2021 Transformation Dr. | Ste 3220 | Lincoln, NE 68588
e: fhayes@nebraska.edumailto:fhayes@nebraska.edu | p: +1 402.472.9510
Newshttps://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/news-and-events | Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/waterforfoodinstitute | YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/WaterForFood | Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/waterforfood/ | LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/waterforfood
[Text Description automatically generated]https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/
From: Ringler, Claudia (IFPRI) <C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORGmailto:C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORG> Date: Monday, March 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM To: Frances Hayes <fhayes@nebraska.edumailto:fhayes@nebraska.edu> Subject: FW: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Caution: Non-NU Email
I assume they will try to sell it to everyone of the 2460 people who is on the list..
This is already the second such email 😊
From: shashi julienex <shashi.julienexhibitionhub@gmail.commailto:shashi.julienexhibitionhub@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 2:39 AM To: Ringler, Claudia (IFPRI) <C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORGmailto:C.RINGLER@CGIAR.ORG> Subject: Attendees List for Water for Food Global Conference 2025
Hi,
We are pleased to inform you of the attendee list of Water for Food Global Conference 2025.
28 Apr - 02 May 2025 Nebraska Innovation Campus, Lincoln, USA
The list contains 2,460 pre-registered attendees with email addresses, contact numbers, and more in an Excel format.
We do charge for our Services; would you like to See What is the price?
Regards, Shashi
