Why? Did you experienced any problems?

Its fraudulent. The claims therein did NOT pan out as genuine.

What's the issue? It is some kind of scam?

Yes!

Invitation Letter

Smart Materials-2021

March 10-12, 2021, Barcelona, Spain

Dear Dr. Austine O. Iroegbu,

Much appreciate for your time to this email.

The committee of Smart Materials-2021 cordially welcome you to make a presentation as speaker at Session 804: Catalysis and Catalytic Materials regarding your research on "Effects of the Type of Catalyst on the Polymerisation Mechanism of Furfuryl Alcohol and its Resultant Properties". Sincerely wish you can give us an opportunity to include your research in our program.

The hot topics of Smart Materials-2021 will include but not limited to:

Graphene and 2D Materials, Nanomaterials, Metals and Alloys, Advanced Composites, Electronic & Advanced Packaging Materials, Magnetic Materials,Next Generation IT/ICT, AI and Robotics,Sensors, Polymer and Textile Materials, Biomaterials and Medical Materials, Additive Manufacturing & 3D/4D Printing, Building Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, as well as their applications…

In the early stage of the conference process, we welcome you or colleagues join as the member of Advisory Board and the committee will stay open to any suggestion on the scientific program. Moreover any poster or paper submission to conference proceeding are highly welcome.

Please inform us in case you need any additional information.

All the best.

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Snowy Liang

Program Coordinator

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I also recieved this email ! And the email name was Environmental Research？？？

I got something similar::

Dear Abdullah Bahmani,

Thanks for your time to this invitation from WCSM-Singapore 2021. We are so pleased to announce the 7th World Congress of Smart Materials-2021 (Singapore) will be held during June 16-19, 2021 in Singapore. On behalf of the organization committee, I am writing to extend our sincere invitation. Are you interested in making an oral presentation in our conference on your new research "ICT-Based Challenges of Repurposing a Single-Campus Course to Multi-campus Settings: A Pragmatic Case Study"?

WCSM Singapore event plans to shoot for 300+ oral presentations in breaking research of Smart Materials Science and Technologies. 500+ world-renowned experts, academicians, senior scientists, industry executives and project leaders from 40+ countries will get together to address the topics, issues, best practices and trends necessary to make the right decisions to guide their business strategies, and future science and technology direction.

The Conference Topics will include:

Symposium 1: Future Trends of Smart Materials

Symposium 2: Smart Materials and Structures

Symposium 3: Smart Materials Science and Engineering

Symposium 4: Smart Electronic Materials & Devices

Symposium 5: Smart Materials for Energy and Environment

Symposium 6: Smart Biomaterials and Applications

Symposium 7: Smart Optical and Magnetic Materials

Symposium 8: Smart Materials Application

Sincerely wish we have this opportunity to welcome you to contribute your invaluable experience and knowledge at this magnificent conference.

Look forward to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Ms. Snowy Liang

WCSM-Singapore, June 16-19, 2021

Same here. I got invitation to join this conference. The 7th World Congress of Smart Materials-2021 (Singapore) ....Could not find more information elaswhere.

Snowy Liang is a scam. Smart Materials, Nanocomposites, Nanotechnologies blah blah blah... If you want to attend genuine conferences visit the conference announcements on Elsevier, Nature, Society of Plastics Engineers, Taylor and Francis etc. They always announce conferences. Bewary of unsolicited e-mails calling you "distinguished/ eminent scholar/ geniuse... Those are scams...

I have also received this invitation to make a oral presentation at Singapore from Snowy Liang. Also another one for St.Petersburg oncology meeting by Pack. I do not find any reliable info on these meetings.

Same generic email was sent to me today::

Dear Dr. Alexander Fergusson,

Thanks for your time to this invitation from WCSM-2021 (Singapore). We are so pleased to announce the 7th World Congress of Smart Materials-2021 (Singapore) will be held during June 16-18, 2021 in Singapore. On behalf of the organization committee, I am writing to extend our sincere invitation. Are you interested in making an oral presentation on your new research Experimental Study of the Mechanical Andflammability Behaviour of Silica and Rubber Nanocomposites?

.....

This immediately aroused my suspicion as any personally addressed invitation I've had to give a presentation has been sent by someone on the organising committee and its also normal to offer to cover costs . At best its a low quality conference where they will accept any submissions as all they want is cash and don't care about quality. Reasonably likely its just an outright scam too.

Suspicious email from Snowy Liang on "World Functional Material Frontiers August 18-20, 2021 Seoul, South Korea".

A search found a website listing HUNDREDS of conferences in 2021, but nothing in Seoul.

I think these mails should be added to the list of scam mails such as Nigerian scam

Got same kind of mail as follows....

Dear Dr. Nitin S. More,

Thanks for your time to this invitation from WCSM-Singapore 2021. We are so pleased to announce the 7th World Congress of Smart Materials-2021 (Singapore) will be held during June 16-19, 2021 in Singapore. On behalf of the organization committee, I am writing to extend our sincere invitation. Are you interested in making an oral presentation in our conference on your new research "Research Issues for Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing"?

WCSM Singapore event plans to shoot for 300+ oral presentations in breaking research of Smart Materials Science and Technologies. 500+ world-renowned experts, academicians, senior scientists, industry executives and project leaders from 40+ countries will get together to address the topics, issues, best practices and trends necessary to make the right decisions to guide their business strategies, and future science and technology direction.

They have website also https://www.bitcongress.com/wcsm2021-Singapore/default.asp

what to say about it, mail itself appear in Spam Folder.

I also received a similar mail. I googled everything and the coordinator. Seemed legit to me. Thanks for sharing.

Same thing.

Dear Dr. Alejandra

Please accept my apology if this email bothers you, as I have tried to send you this invitation in last months but without any response from you. I didn’t hear from you since the first invitation. Hope you everything goes well. I'm writing to follow-up my last invitation as below, would you please give me a tentative reply? Thank you very much.

With the progress of global vaccination, we have great confidence to launch the 10th Annual World Congress of Nano Science &Technology (Nano S&T-2022). On behalf of organizing committee, we cordially invite you to deliver a presentation as a Speaker/Chair regarding the research on DESIGN OF A NONLINEAR CONTROL FOR LASER CLADDING PLUS POWDER.

Event Basic Information

Time: May 18-20, 2022

Place: Osaka, Japan

Expected Number of Participants: 300+

Program: Keynote Forum, Parallel Sessions, Exhibition, Poster & Paper, Reception, Tour etc..

Contributors: Oral Speakers, Participants, Sponsors, Exhibitors, Media Partners, Supporters etc..

Topics: Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication, Nanomedicine, Nanobiotechnology, Nano Electronics, Nano Optics, Nano Photonics, Nanomagnetism, Nanotech for Energy and Environment, Composite Material Forum, Applications of Nanotech etc..

With 9 years of persistent efforts, the Nano S&T Congress has successfully attracted more than 3,000 world-renowned speakers with over 50,000 professionals around the world as a leading international event for nanoscience and technology community.

In addition to the amazing conference, you will experience mythical nature and culture of this most developed country in Asia, such as Mount Fuji, Shrines and Temples, Hot Springs, Kimono, Traditional Drama, and Amazing Food.

Best Regards,

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Stella Wang

Event Manager

[email protected]

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This is a clear misleading and fraudulent conference advert. Everyone must be very careful about these GLOBAL CONFERENCES, BIT CONFERENCES etc.

Great to have this post. I just received an email similar for World Congress on Smart Materials 2022. Hence seems they did not stop. Just wanted to continue this post as many researcher out there may still not know that this is a scam. Last year I almost replied to that email. But I doubted, because there were no link for the conference in the email.

Beware of scam emails and always doubt the conferences that does not have a good technical website or does not have good necessary details.

If the email has a link just DONT CLICK THE LINK.

Thanks for bringing up this discussion .....Even I got the same email ..I am writing this email to share our latest update on WCSM2022-Singapore with you, which is confirmed to be held on June 15-17, 2022 in Singapore. Here, on behalf of the committee, we sincerely invite you to make an oral presentation with your breakthrough research in Digital image processing. If you can join us, please kindly forward a speech title to us for confirmation.

The detailed program has been released online, for more detailed, please reply this email. As our respected and important speaker, any suggestion on the conference program will be highly appreciated!

Hope you can join us in Singapore!

Ms. Snowy Liang

Coordinator of WCSM2022-Singapore

If the source is traced, then cyber crime authorities should apprehend this type of people who circulate fraudulent invitations.

شكراً للتنويه

The same happened to me...thanks for sharing...

Dear Dr. Anastasia Misirli,

Hope you receive this letter in a wonderful mood. Please accept my apology if this email bothers you, as I have tried to send you this invitation to you but without any response. Would you please send a reply?

I am writing this email to share our latest update on W.C.S.M. 2022 with you, which is confirmed to be held on March 10-12, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Here, on behalf of the committee, we sincerely invite you to make an oral presentation with your breakthrough research. If you can join us, please kindly forward a speech title to us for confirmation.

The detailed program has been released online, for more detailed, please reply this email. As our respected and important speaker, any suggestion on the conference program will be highly appreciated!

Hope you can join us in Barcelona!

Ms. Snowy Liang

Congress Coordinator

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Dr. Kamran Nikbin, Professor, Imperial College London, UK; Royal Academy of Engineering Chair, Structural Integrity, UK

Dr. Peter Cochrane OBE, Professor, University of Suffolk, UK

Mr. Tim Shinbara, Vice President and CTO, The Association for Manufacturing Technology, USA

Conference Topic

Graphene and 2D Materials, Nanomaterials, Metals and Alloys, Advanced Composites, Electronic & Advanced Packaging Materials, Magnetic Materials, Next Generation IT/ICT, AI and Robotics, Sensors, Polymer and Textile Materials, Biomaterials and Medical Materials, Additive Manufacturing & 3D/4D Printing, Building Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, as well as their applications...

Dear Dr. Vladimir Yu. Volkov,

Hope you receive this letter in a wonderful mood. Please accept my apology if this email bothers you, as I have tried to send you this invitation to you but without any response. Would you please send a reply?

I am writing this email to share our latest update on W.C.S.M. 2022 with you, which is confirmed to be held on March 10-12, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Here, on behalf of the committee, we sincerely invite you to make an oral presentation with your breakthrough research Object Selection in Computer Vision: From Multi-thresholding to Percolation Based Scene Representation. If you can join us, please kindly forward a speech titleto us for confirmation.

The detailed program has been released online, for more detailed, please reply this email. As our respected and important speaker, any suggestion on the conference program will be highly appreciated!

Hope you can join us in Barcelona!

Ms. Snowy Liang

Congress Coordinator

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Dr. Kamran Nikbin, Professor, Imperial College London, UK; Royal Academy of Engineering Chair, Structural Integrity, UK

Dr. Peter Cochrane OBE, Professor, University of Suffolk, UK

Mr. Tim Shinbara, Vice President and CTO, The Association for Manufacturing Technology, USA

Conference Topic

Graphene and 2D Materials, Nanomaterials, Metals and Alloys, Advanced Composites, Electronic & Advanced Packaging Materials, Magnetic Materials, Next Generation IT/ICT, AI and Robotics, Sensors, Polymer and Textile Materials, Biomaterials and Medical Materials, Additive Manufacturing & 3D/4D Printing, Building Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, as well as their applications…

Raed Rahim Khuder ,

Raed Rahim Khuder added a reply to this ResearchGate discussion thread question on May 18th 2021, as follows:

"شكراً للتنويه "

Translation from the Arabic language to the English language, as follows:

"Thank you for pointing out this problem."

Source: Internet Artificially Intelligent Translator

Some methodology has to be found to trace the culprits of these scam mails

Greetings to the community of researchers,

I am a publisher, online research platform manager and formerly a researcher and I can tell you that not all e-mails are scum. In fact, personally, I send e-mails to researchers whose profiles or publications are interesting for different reasons:

1- I invite them to publish in my periodic

2- I ask them about technical or scientific informations they mentioned in their papers/publications

3- I invite them to join the editorial board of my journal or review some publications

4- I invite them to participate to events like contests or webinars that I think are relevant to their research area

5- It happens that I send them a newsletter

I put hyperlinks to my website in the e-mail so the receiver can verify by himself, if he doesn't want to click on the link, he can write the given address by hand in his browser and verify himself, if he is not interested in my message, he can simply ignore it, but this doesn't mean that what I am proposing is scum or fraud. I am sorry if you find this method intrusive, but actually I found no other method to inform researchers than e-mails, especially that they are the only public coordinate available to contact them.

What I want too say is, before judging if an e-mail coming from a person that you don't know is a spam or not, the simplest thing to do is verifying who is this person, then verify the existance of the journal/the conference/the website (a simple search on Google can be enough)

@Lamice great to get your own side on this issue. The whole essence of discussing this issue is for researchers to be wary of such emails especially when it has all the red flags of a possible scam without any of those pointers you've raised in your response above. Notwithstanding, when an e-mail becomes generic and not specific in pointing out reasons why you want a researcher to attend conferences and demonstrate verifiable facts about the so-called conference or publication then it is nothing but a SCAM!

Dear Austine Iroegbu ,

The mentioned journal (https://www.imedpub.com/journal-environmental-research/) in the mail you received is published by “Insight Medical Publishing (iMedPub LTD)” a known predatory publisher included in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/

The same is true for those who received things related to “BIT Congress Inc.” this is an organization included in the list of Questionable conferences (https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029).

So, indeed those who think this is something one better can avoid are right.

Best regards.

Dear Dr. Yogini Prabhu,

Hope you receive this letter in a wonderful mood. Please accept my apology if this email bothers you, as I have tried to send you this invitation to you but without any response. Would you please send a reply?

I am writing this email to share our latest update on W.C.S.M. 2022 with you, which is confirmed to be held on March 10-12, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Here, on behalf of the committee, we sincerely invite you to make an oral presentation with your breakthrough research Exploration of an Image Processing Model for the Detection of Borer Pest Attack. If you can join us, please kindly forward a speech title to us for confirmation.

The detailed program has been released online, for more detailed, please reply this email. As our respected and important speaker, any suggestion on the conference program will be highly appreciated!

Hope you can join us in Barcelona!

Ms. Snowy Liang

Congress Coordinator

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Dr. Kamran Nikbin, Professor, Imperial College London, UK; Royal Academy of Engineering Chair, Structural Integrity, UK

Dr. Peter Cochrane OBE, Professor, University of Suffolk, UK

Mr. Tim Shinbara, Vice President and CTO, The Association for Manufacturing Technology, USA

Conference Topic

Graphene and 2D Materials, Nanomaterials, Metals and Alloys, Advanced Composites, Electronic & Advanced Packaging Materials, Magnetic Materials, Next Generation IT/ICT, AI and Robotics, Sensors, Polymer and Textile Materials, Biomaterials and Medical Materials, Additive Manufacturing & 3D/4D Printing, Building Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, as well as their applications…

I also received this e-mail several times, and I think this a spam mail because it does not include any link to the conference. When I search the conference in Web, I found this conference at https://www.bitcongress.com/topwcsm2022/default.asp, but there is no name Ms. Snowy Liang as coordinator.

one more spam from osman(European Society of Medicine)

Dear Dr. Balasubramanian S, Your Diabetes work caught my attention recently and I thought that it would make an interesting addition to one of the sessions of our General Assembly this year. If you are willing we could discuss the possibility of you giving a talk, either at the assembly or online. The agenda is available at https://esmed.org/conferences/2021assembly/.  Would you be open to this?

Yes .. there are spam mails like these!

I do received the email often in my inbox. Spam!

I too have received an email like this, reproduced below:

Dear Dr. -------,

Your drug development work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Drug Development is one of the core topics of the Pharmacology session I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "------".

May we discuss this idea?

How to find out if its a fake one?

When you get an invitation based on your publication which has no relevance to the theme of the conference, then certainly it is a fake one. You can also very with the University website if the venue is in a University campus.

Dear Dr. Virendra Kumar,

Your prostate cancer work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Prostate cancer is one of the core topics of the Oncology session I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Multiparametric (mp) MRI of prostate cancer".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Glad that I consulted some of my colleagues about this Osman MD and European Society Medicine 2022. We started communicating already, and my suspicion began when he asked me to register already, and the registration site is for European Society Medicine 2021. I remembered there are predatory conferences as well, and it is tough to detect which one. Mr. Osman seems legit, and the European Society Medicine website is also good.

Should I turn down the offer now because it seems that almost all of you here indicate that this is indeed a scam? Thank you for all your comments and sharing of experience about receiving an email about European Society Medicine.

yes

Dear Dr. Ewoud-Jan van Hoogdalem,

Your pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Pharmacology-Guided Rule-Based Adaptive Dose Escalation in First-in-Human Studies".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

thanks for the info I also got this and have received multiple communications now with M. Osman and also wanted me to register and pay money now which seemed odd - their website looks very legit but I hate to do this if it is not a 'real venue'

Good, Do not send any money

Same situation here. I received an email from the ESMG as below. Scepticism causes me to double check the info online and found my answer here. Tq.

Dear Dr. See Hoe Ng,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Reading the mind of children in response to food advertising: a cross-sectional study of Malaysian schoolchildren's attitudes towards food and beverages advertising on television".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D.

European Society of Medicine

2022 ESMED General Assembly

The other thing is no conference venue no hotel, and when you look on website at board of directors- it is “in process” - I’m sure the whole website is fake

great.

FRAUD.

Similar email here and it seems very skeptical.

Dear Dr. Ka I Ip,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Moderation of the relationship between the error-related negativity and anxiety by age and gender in young children: A preliminary investigation".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

me too:

Dear Dr. Saoirse Nic-Gabhainn,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Children's participation in school: a cross-sectional study of the relationship between school environments, participation and health and well-being outcomes".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Dear Dr. William G Sharp,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "An Economic Analysis of Intensive Multidisciplinary Interventions for Treating Medicaid-Insured Children with Pediatric Feeding Disorders".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

be cautious, they are 'monitoring' this as the website is now being 'upgraded'

Me too with 2 emails.

First email:

Dear Dr. Juan C. Sanchez-Hernandez,

Your pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Vermiremediation of Pharmaceutical-Contaminated Soils and Organic Amendments".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Second email:

I hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Pharmacology session?

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

And my field of work is soil pollution, no related to pharmacology!

I get these often but if you report tbem they will usually stop or go to spam

It is better to take a collective action rather than ignoring them or allowing them to go into the spam

Same here! recieved a mail two days ago.. Oct 3, 2021

Dear Dr. Ida Kangas,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "The 180 degree study is a simple examination of the motor development of infants".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

One more, received on October 1st, 2021:

"Your pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "THE AGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL 3D PRINTING. TECHNOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly"

Any idea how Or to who we should report?

hi I have also received similar mail two days back and I am pretty sure its fake!

Dear Dr. Neeti Kasliwal,

Your pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "A CSR Strategy – Inclusion of Differently Abled People in the Manufacturing Process of a Footwear Organization".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Perhaps the receipt of fake mail can be reported to the cyber crime police department in the respective country to stop the recurrence of such mails.

I received the mail, I accepted the invitation, I paid, I am so innocent!!!!!

So sad. Be careful next time and alert your contacts also.

I also received the solicitation from Dr. Osman. The first one was for a conference in Madrid and the second one was for a similar conference in Berlin.

Dear Dr. David M Garner,

Your pediatrics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Psychotropic medications in adult and adolescent eating disorders: clinical practice versus evidence-based recommendations".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

you can safely ignore them and also alert your colleagues

I received exactly the same email. So, it is an email blast. We can safely ignore them.

Good. If more and more people are aware of these type of mails, then there is less chance of getting cheated.

I have received the same invitation for a conference in Madrid to present a paper that was obviously not related to the topic of the conference.

I too received the same kind of mail

Me too, I have received similar mail

I too received the same kind of mail

I have also recieved the same email.

The originating country need to be found out. Then the cybercrime authorities in that country should be informed to trace the culprit. This is similar to the Nigerian scam in which people have lost money on false promises.

I received a similar email: "Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX".

This manuscript is under review, and was published as a non per reviewed paper. I answered Dr Osman with some suggestions about the round table....Of course I will not pay for any registration!!!!, thanks all of you for advising us about the fraud.

Waiting for an answer... To be continued......

For a brief moment I thought this was a legit invitation. But when I didn't reply in time for Vienna 2021, my neuro-oncology session magically rolled over to Madrid the next year!

Imagine if we all actually turned up ... it would be a mega-conference!

Perhaps the speaker name will move forward to the next 10 years if the person is active!

So what should we do ?

Received invitation mails from '[email protected]' to be a Speaker in 2021 'ESMED General Assembly' in Berlin Was deceived to pay to 'KEI Journals' for hotel stay. TOTAL SCAM !!!

Kindly ignore the mail and do not make any payment. If you have any contact with cyber crime detection department, you can ask them to investigate the origin.

I got a similar message yesterday.

I just searched on google found that someone had a bad experience with that person: http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2020/11/european-society-of-medicine-esmed.html

you have done the good thing.

Dear.....,

This is Alma, Program Coordinator of the WCFN-2022. It is our great pleasure and privilege to welcome you to join the 9th Annual World Congress of Food and Nutrition-2022 (WCFN-2022), which will be held during May 16-18, 2022(next year), in Osaka, Japan. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would be honored to invite you to be a chair/speaker at WCFN-2022 while presenting about XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.......

The Annual World Congress of Food and Nutrition has successfully held each year all over the world. Each year, there were more than 300 world-renowned experts, professors, specialists and entrepreneurs from many countries attended the conferences. The conference is a great scientific festival with wonderful opportunities to learn about the new research result and achievement of Food and Nutrition. Meanwhile, it has promoted the communication of colleagues and collaboration of partners in this field. Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCFN-2022 which would be better and more successful!

Aiming to promote an international exchange of scientific knowledge and experience in the field of food and nutrition, the scientific program of WCFN-2022 will include plenary/keynote lectures and session talks as well as poster presentations under several major themes, mainly focused on: Food Economy, Policy and Laws, Basic Research of Food Science, Advanced Food Technologies, Food Detection, Quality and Safety Control, Special Food Research, Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Diet, Advances in Nutrition Research, Human Nutrition through Life Course, Nutrition and Disease Management. We certainly believe that WCFN-2022 will provide a variety of opportunities to exchange ideas and expertise as well as network with worldwide research groups.

We expect your precious comments or suggestions; also your reference to other speakers will be highly appreciated. We look forward to receiving your replies on the following questions:

1. What is the title of your speech?

2. Do you have any suggestions about our program?

For more detail of conference program bitcongress.com/wcfn2022/

In addition to the amazing conference, you will benefit from the wonderful experience in Osaka, Japan. Joining in WCFN-Japan 2022, you will experience mythical nature and culture of this most developed country in Asia, such as Mount Fuji, Shrines and Temples, Hot Springs, Kimono, Traditional Drama, and Amazing Food.

We sincerely wish you can accept our invitation and join us to contribute your invaluable experience and knowledge at this magnificent conference. Look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sincerely yours,

Ms. Alma Yang

Organizing Committee of WCFN-2022

Tel: 0086-411-84799609 EXT 816

Email: [email protected]

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The number of people who are aware of the scam is increasing

There is a need to keep the unsuspecting public informed and keep this conversation in perspective for a very long time to save others from falling for these dubious conferences... Sengottuvelan Balasubramanian Thank you for your support...

you are wecome

you are welcome. You can propagate this info to your contacts also

I got similar message twice this week:

Dear Dr. Ligia de L. Cisneros,

Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Brazilian Portuguese version of the Mediterranean diet scale: Translation procedures and measurement properties".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

I got the same and he keeps emailing me:

This was the first:

Dear Dr. Puja Mehta,

Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Variability in counselling for adrenal insufficiency in COVID-19 and beyond: a survey of rheumatology practice".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D. European Society of Medicine 2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Since both of you are aware of the authenticity of the mail, you can ignore them

I have also received an email from EMSD and Dr Osman to make presentation yet my research has been on community forestry.

Thank you for highlighting the issue.

Got the same,

Please be aware of these frauds

Dear Dr. Bharat Gurnani,

Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Comments on: Teleconsultation at a tertiary care government medical university during COVID-19 lockdown in India – A pilot study".

The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.

May we discuss this idea?

Sincerely,

M. Osman, M.D.

European Society of Medicine

2022 ESMED General Assembly

Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.

Here the whole truth, interested can read

European Society of Medicine (ESMED) Congresses and Events

It is not obvious what the "European Society of Medicine" is. It might be a creation of the alleged predatory publisher Knowledge Enterprises, Inc. (KEI).

BEST COMMENTS RECEIVED

Financial complaints

January 26, 2021: Seeing that COVID was going to keep the border closed ... , I wrote Dr. Osman and asked for my $849 USD back. Still asking. He asked me to present virtually and I'm not interested. Still waiting for my money.

May 10, 2021: Unfortunately I paid $271.00. I then got an email saying that the bank had cancelled my payment and asking me to repay. ... I checked with the bank. There was no cancellation of payment. Unfortunately my 271 is gone. ... I should have been smarter.

July 16, 2021: [I] contracted AMEX to dispute the registration charge. Within minutes, I got a response from AMEX: "We're writing to let you know that, as a result of our investigation, we've credited your account for $699.00, which will appear on your next statement." Clearly, AMEX is aware of the scam!

Inappropriate solicitations

November 30, 2020: The first giveaway is that I AM NOT in radiology nor general medicine, then the misspelled email of “Dr Osman” but also that when trying the reply address what came up was not a European society of medicine email address but [email protected] ...

January 17, 2021: Reports an invitation soliciting "joining the Pathology session." His or her specialty? Speech-language pathology.

February 5, 2021: The funniest thing is that he invited me to talk about a paper that I published 8 years ago!

February 11, 2021: I work in a very specialized, non medical field .... Its such an inappropriate request to present at a general medical conference.

April 25, 2021: "I am a veterinarian btw, so maybe he should do his homework before sending emails out like candy flying out of a pez dispenser." (In response to the request for a talk in the "core session" on physiology from the author of the "paper from a while ago [that] was particularly interesting for [Dr. Osman]: 'Canine Cognitive Dysfunction: Pathophysiology.'" )

April 29, 2021: Reports an invitation from the eclectic Dr. Osman for a presentation in a "core session" on "Radiology" based on the "particularly interesting" paper on "In Trauma-Exposed Individuals" even though the author is "not in radiology" and the paper obviously "has a longer name than 'In Trauma-Exposed Individuals.'"

Oblivious responses

January 2, 2021: A recipient of the email sent "Dr. Osman" an e-mail complaining about the "fishing technique for getting money with a fake meeting." Unperturbed, Dr. Osman replied, "I understand. Might a student or colleague be available instead?"

February 8, 2021: "He refused to be deterred when I pointed out that my paper to which he referred so flatteringly had been published six years previously, and I had done no further work on the cohort since then - IMO, people attended conferences to learn new information, not dusty old stuff. Also, I could not see how my subject matter, even if updated, would fit into any of the conference sessions."

No such place

February 9, 2021: I happen to live in Geneva Switzerland. I decided that the easiest way to find out ... was to just go by rue le corbusier 12. [T]here was no sign, no way to ring and not even a letterbox of any european organisation of anything that could be found there.

July 26, 2021: [C]hecking ... 12, Rue le Corbuisier, it seems the people at 'ESM' have misspelled the name of this famous architect, as no such street exists in Genève. But at 12, Rue Le-Corbusier (without the "i"), there are at least two ophtalmologists. Link: https://www.local.ch/fr/q/rue-le-corbusier-12-1208-geneve.

Other peculiarities

January 20, 2021: It is strange that their web-page does not contain the history of this society and membership link does not work.

February 1, 2021: I asked about [Dr. Osman's] own field of research and publications. Never got an answer. SILENCE

July 16, 2021: I was contacted in April ... . I fell for it and registered. Then when I tried to access the conference website from a link within "Dr. Osman"'s original solicitation email, it got flagged by my university's cyber-traffic watchdog as a fraudulent site.[But a] conference site ... had a program with the session in which I was supposed to present, the title I had provided for my presentation, and even photo of me! Confused, I decided to contact the conference organizers through their legit-looking website to get clarification. I did it 3 times, and got no response.

September 7, 2021: I have discovered that the e-mails M. Osman sends inviting participation ... originate from Pakistan, either Karachi or Lahore.

Email

From: Congress Committee [[email protected]]

To: David H. Kaye

Sent: Wed, Aug 4 at 3:57 PM

Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"

I hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Genetics session?

M. Osman, M.D.

ESMED Congress 2021

From: Congress Committee [[email protected]]

To:David H. Kaye

Sent: Sun, Jul 18 at 12:02 PM

Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"

Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,

I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding genetics work. I am organizing a session on Genetics to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'".

The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.

May we discuss this idea further?

Best Regards,

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From: M. Osman, M.D. [[email protected]]

Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2021, at 6:37 AM

Subject: Re: Would like to discuss The design of “the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation”

Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,

Were you interested in discussing how your work might fit into the Genetics session?

The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna, as well as online. I would be happy to send more details or answer any questions you may have.

Best Regards,

M. Osman, M.D.

From: M. Osman, M.D. [[email protected]]

Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2021, at 10:50 AM

Sat, Mar 20, 2021

Subject: would like to discuss The design of “the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation”

Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,

I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Genetics work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "The design of "the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation"".

Genetics is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.

Can we discuss this idea?

Best Regards,

M. Osman, M.D.

European Society of Medicine

ESMED Congress 2021

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From: M. Osman, M.D. [[email protected]]

Date: Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, 6:09:52 AM EST

Subject: The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'

Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,

I am hoping to talk to you about your genetics work. I enjoyed reading your article "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in the Genetics session of our General Assembly next year.

I am on the organizing committee and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.

May we discuss this further?

Best Regards,

M. Osman, M.D.

European Society of Medicine

ESMED General Assembly

DH Kaye at 4:28 PM

Ligia de Loiola Cisneros, Bharat Gurnani,

I´ve got the same mail from thisEuropean Society of Medicine Congress for an ophthalmology topic. They keep coming more frequently. It's annoying.

Good, Bharat could throw more light on this subject. Has the originating country been confirmed?

I received a similar email, a few days ago, and I haven't replied to it still, and the person keeps mailing me again. Thanks for this post!

Dear Austine Iroegbu ,

Your question changed from a suspect journal invitation which I tried to answer in my reply of July 14th, into a discussion about congress invitations from ESMED. A few remarks on this:

-Sengottuvelan Balasubramanian the reply of Bharat Gurnani refers to the following link which was missing in his reply http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2020/11/european-society-of-medicine-esmed.html?m=1

-Looking at https://esmed.org/ there are many red flags such as the contact info Rue le Corbusier 12 Geneva, 1208, Switzerland which is just a mailbox address (hiding their true origin)

-The journal they refer to here https://esmed.org/journals/ is “Medical Research Archives” (https://esmed.org/MRA/mra) this journal is included in the Beall’s list https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/

-The site https://esmed.org/MRA/ mentions KEI JOURNALS (using the following virtual office address 340 S Lemon Ave #7750 Walnut CA 91789 USA, again to hide their true location) as publisher also mentioned in the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/ ).

-The publisher is/used to be known as Knowledge Enterprises Incorporated https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_wy/2017-000752820 they all seem linked http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2017/01/knowledge-enterprises-inc-kei-journals.html

So, the whole operation looks like a scam.

Best regards.

Rob's evidences further confirm the bogus nature of these operators

I too have received an invitation to participate in the CIVID-19 core session August 4-6 in Madrid

"Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article".

Thanks to all who have posted. Madrid did sound inviting though!

The scam proves that we are in a global village, which has transcended all the geographical boundaries

With the more frequent online congresses as a result of the pandemics it becomes more difficult to discern predatory organizers. Has anyone an idea about the quality of the ESMED contributions?

No idea. If any one is lucky enough to present his/her work, that participant can share the experience.