I also mildly agree with using a determiner for names of organizations that end in “Company” “Institute” “Organization” etc, and also don’t mind treating the acronym version as you would without knowing the expansion.
I don’t think it’s a full bit of scam-signal, though.
Some weak (top prescriptivist result in Google) evidence: http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/articles_proper.pdf (although it contradicts komponisto and me in advising that determiner choice should be the same as the expanded version (while simultaneously advising “an SDMI” and not “a SDMI” presumably because read aloud, “an S” is “an ess”)
I also mildly agree with using a determiner for names of organizations that end in “Company” “Institute” “Organization” etc, and also don’t mind treating the acronym version as you would without knowing the expansion.
I don’t think it’s a full bit of scam-signal, though.
Some weak (top prescriptivist result in Google) evidence: http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/articles_proper.pdf (although it contradicts komponisto and me in advising that determiner choice should be the same as the expanded version (while simultaneously advising “an SDMI” and not “a SDMI” presumably because read aloud, “an S” is “an ess”)