Publishing Scam for Journals
Posted: July 25, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: x, y, z 21 CommentsIt appears that some (all?) people whose abstracts were accepted for the LRS are receiving the email shown below. Please note that this is a phishing operation; ultimately they attempt to charge you per page for publication. Here is a link to a warning that another conference put out about this journal: http://www.mededworld.org/AMEE-News/AMEE-Articles/Attention-AMEE-2012-Participants.aspx
Here is the email that LRS presenters are receiving.
This is a scam:
This is Modern Education Review (ISSN 2155-7993), a professional
journal published worldwide by Academic Star Publishing Company, New
York , NY, USA.
We have learned your paper . . .at the 36th annual Leisure Research Symposium
(LRS) . research interests, please send the electronic ve If you have
the idea of making our journal a vehicle for your rsion of your paper
to us through email attachment in MS word format. All your original
and unpublished papers are welcome.
Hope to keep in touch by email and publish some papers or books from
you and your friends in USA. As an American academic publishing group,
we wish to become your friends if necessary. We also want to invite
some people to be our reviewers or become our editorial board members.
If you are interested in our journal, you can send your CV to us.
You can find our sample issue in the attachment. Expect to get your reply soon.
Best regards,
Amy
Recreation Law 
I received the same message, this week … that says verbatim:
Dear …..，
This is Journal of Business and Economics (ISSN2155-7950), a professional journal published by Academic Star Publishing Company, USA.
We have learned your paper “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx” in the XXI Congreso Internacional xxxxxxxxxxx. We are very interested in your paper and want to publish it in the Journal of Business and Economics. If you have the idea of making our journal a vehicle for your research interests, please send the English version of your paper in MS word format.to us through this email attachment.
All of your original papers and books which have not been published are welcome. Hope to keep in touch by email and publish some papers or books from you and your friends in USA. As an American academic publishing group, we wish to become your friends if necessary. Expect to get your reply soon.
Best regards
Gavin
Editorial office
Journal of Business and Economics, USA
Academic Star Publishing Company,
http://www.academicstar.us
1820 Avenue M Suite #1068 Brooklyn, NY 11230
Tel: 347-566-2153, Fax: 646-619-4168
E-mail: jbe02@academicstar.us, economics@academicstar.us
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The pressure to publish now days makes a lot of academics fall for this scam.
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Hello I just want to share that I recently was in academic event in México and gave my speech and some weeks later I received two emails from Academic Star Publishing Company using the same letter. I found it very strange and I started to investigate it and I discoved his name in the list of Predatory publishing. Indeed we have to be very carefull and suspicious.
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Oh my god this is the exact same email that I got and I even wrote a paper and you know what? They demanded that I pay 430 USD for publishing 8 pages. Luckily I found out about it all being a scam before it was too late. I feel horrid now….
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I’ve got this message last week and feel fishy. Luckily I’ve read all these comments before proceed with them. Phewww!
Dear Wan，
Hope everything goes well.
Have you received our “call for paper”? We are still interested in your paper.
Could you please tell us your decision about “Call for paper”?
Looking forward to your reply.
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Hello! I received one too in March 2019 with the same core text. It is a scam. Bests!
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I just got one too. Terrible!
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I got an email exactly like the sample above and wrote to them, that I needed more information. This was the reply I got
“Glad to get your reply. You should send your paper to us in MS word format via email attachment or our online submission system. When we receive your paper, we will send it out for peer review, and return the result to you in 2-4 weeks. If it is accepted, you should pay some publication fee to us and sign the copyright transfer form. Then you should revise your paper if it needs and return your revised paper to us. At last, we will arrange your paper to be published. Before the publication, we will return the paper to you for proofreading.”
These got my attention and I knew it was fraudulent
1. No full name…it was just ‘Emily’
2. pay some publication fee
3. Sign the copyright transfer form…for what? I definitely cannot do that
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They asked me for $500 to publish my paper!
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430 dollars from me. isn’t there a way to report them? This is so wrong you know?
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There is no one to report them to.
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I also received this spam email after my conference presentation. Something was not right. Thank God I searched and found out it is a spam.
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just got the same email.. something fishy because I wrote my article in Malay, national language… what a scam.. Thank you
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Scam. Got an email from them. “We wish to become your friends and have an opportunity to publish some papers or books from you and your friends if necessary”. That’s fishy.
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I just received “an invitation” to publish with them after my latest presentation at an international conference. They even included a sample paper by a Chinese scholar!
Thanks for letting us know.
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They’re still at it. I’ve just received an identical e-mail to the example above, following a conference presentation in September. Note the very clumsy – almost non-literate – wording of the invitation. They must be confident of catching ar least some people if they can be so careless with their presentation.
Nicholas
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I got an invitation too. It is obvious that the journal is a scam. They didn’t even leave full name. However, in this publishing-demanding era, the scam can successfully cheat some people.
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Ok I received one too
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Just got a similar one after my Qualitatives conference presentation.
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