[SML] OT: Strange email "Help with research on lighting and stagecraft"

[Jacqueline Haney]

My day job is with an energy consultant.  He recently was solicited (vigorously) by phone to pay a significant amount of money to be listed in a directory of "expert witnesses" available to insurance companies.    Especially if it was through Linked In, I suspect this is the same sort of useless "service".
Jacqueline Haney

 
      From: Scott C. Parker via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net>
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 Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 11:04 PM
 Subject: [SML] OT: Strange email "Help with research on lighting and stagecraft"
   
I got this email via LinkedIn asking for info about lighting and stagecraft. Supposedly anyway. They say they are an information company, who specialize in personal and business investigations. 
"The reason I am contacting you today is because you are a professional in a field in which I am researching at this time. In order to successfully help our clients, I need to be familiar with all aspects of each particular case. This is why I am reaching out to you."
Has anyone gotten these types of things before? Seems like a private investigation firm building a case about someone/something.
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Scott C. Parker
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