Beware of fraudulent list services!
The most common type of scam conferences experience are from data services (personal data information sellers) hawking conference attendance lists. Corporate member companies receive these scam solicitations on a regular basis. These solicitations are 100% fraudulent. ASMS conference attendee lists are NOT available through any third party list service. Any solicitation of ASMS contact lists. These list solicitation scams primarily target Corporate Member companies, but individuals may also receive fraudulent list solictations as well. ASMS recommends that you treat any contact list solicitation as spam/junk mail.
Beware of housing service scams!
Growing in popularity is the housing service scam. Again, these typically target ASMS Corporate member companies because a list of these companies is available on our website. Another target for these scams are invited speakers for a particular conference as these individuals may be listed on an organization's website. Fortunately the main ASMS annual conference has very few invited speakers. Please be aware of this type of scam for other conferences you may be involved with. We can think of no organization that actively solicits speakers or attendees to reserve their hotel rooms. Again, if there is ever a doubt, we encourage you to contact conference organizers and only reserve your room through known channels which are very typically a particular conference's website.