The Haskell Security Response Team has been alerted to an apparent
scam website pretending to be the "Recursion 2026" conference (29-30
October, NYC). The registration facility appears (to me) to be
closed at the moment, but it's possible they scammed some people in
our community.
Thanks to Cuihtlauac Alvarado for the report. The OCaml community
has also been alerted[1].
[1] https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/conf-funcp-org-is-a-scam-ocaml-conference/18577
I am reproducing the substance of that announcement below, with
thanks:
> This site:
>
> https://conf.funcp.org/
>
> Presents as an OCaml/Haskell/FP conference. However:
>
> * The event is not listed on the venue’s official schedule:
> https://www.javitscenter.com/calendar
>
> * The funcp.org domain was registered two weeks ago, yet the
> oldest blog posts are dated from April:
> https://rdap.org/domain/funcp.org
>
> * The domain has no email routing — the contact addresses cannot
> receive mail: https://mxtoolbox.com/emailhealth/funcp.org/
>
> * Registration routes payment off-site to a third-party platform
> (http://gomry.com) with a $149+ ticket.
>
> * Listed speakers or organisers don’t seem to have any track
> record in our community
>
> * Talk’s topics don’t stand scrutiny
>
> * Claims to be a second edition, but I can’t find a prior edition
>
> If you registered, I suggest cancelling and getting your money
> back.
>
> This has been reported to the OCaml and Haskell security teams,
> the Javits Center, Google Safe Browsing, Cloudflare, dev.events
> (which lists the conference), and Gomry (the payment platform).
>
> Thanks to @adrien, @mtelvers and @edwin, who helped disclose this.
I have also posted this to discourse.haskell.org:
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/scam-alert-recursion-2026-conference-conf-f…
Best,
Fraser
