Bruno Chrcanovic

For the last 3 months, I have been collecting email addresses from every predatory spam mail I get. That includes not only who sent it, but the supplied response addresses the spam mails contained.

Now, whenever I get a new predator's spam mail I simply hit reply, remove any info about me, add the collected spammer's email addresses to the CC line, and hit send.

So, my spam is now their spam too.

In doing so, I have noticed a couple of things over the past couple of months.

1) more and more of the spammers email addresses are bounced as undeliverable. Especially the email addresses hosted by KEI. For example, half the email addresses I have for the spammer combo of Siozos/Padron/Jimenez/Umana seem to no longer function.

2) the amount of spam from those on my list has markedly gone down. The amount from the spamming combo of Siozos/Padron/Jimenez/Umana alone has gone from near daily (and sometimes twice per day) to less than once per week. Win!!

Thank you Bruno for the warning. When you go to this site and click on “Current Issues”, it tells you that no issues have been published. What kind of journal is that? I was involved with a start up publication and even if the senior editors have to get the journal going, they wrote something themselves. This certainly looks fraudulent!

Тhanks a lot

Thanks!

Thanks

quite agree :-)

I have repeatedly told both 'names' to cease and desist contacting me.

These 'names' seem to be affiliated with KEI (Knowledge Enterprises, Inc.) which they go to great lengths to hide.

I contacted one of the "featured presenters" fraudulently used in their solicitation to try to get me to fork over big-bucks and this was his reply:

Thank you.

I am not attending the conference.

I was not informed that I would be featured as a speaker.

******* @austin.utexas.edu

This person's name has since been removed from their fraudulent solicitation emails/website, but not their brochure which I have now forwarded to UTexas for follow-up by their legal dept.

Thank you!

I also received an email from them, but I was afraid to write back. There are many such magazines. We can make a black list

Thank you!!! I have been receiving them, too!!

I receive almost every week messages from this guy, Mr. Jimenez, even if my field has nothing to do with the "journals" or "conferences" that he is marketing. This is more than strange!

Thanks for sharing Bruno. It is indeed fraudulent. I received the email and the link they provided doesn't work. It say- 2019 Global Conference on Neuroscience and Neurology, in Chicago this year on Saturday August 24th. What a waste of time?! I am so annoyed.

Thank you!

Happened to me too! Thank you for posting this info.

got an invite to write an article--it looked almost legit; at least much better than most bs invitations I get. Fewer red flags anyway.

I got the article invitation today too!!! Ridiculous - one week one thing, the next week something else!

Thank you , I was about to reply...

The links to the above conference sites are no longer available. When you click on them, the site is saying that it has been archived or suspended.

Received this today-

To

Donna M. Lisi

Psychiatry and Mental Health 2019 will be scheduled under the theme “Innovations and Excellency in Psychiatry and Mental Health for a better Healthcare” at Dubai, UAE during August 28-29. For 2 days we have many exciting presentation sessions with Networking. 

We would like to invite you as a Session Speaker towards this esteemed event, as we came across your work entitled “Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Older Adults in the United States: 2011 to 2014” and highly appreciate the same.

THEY INVITED ME TO A PSYCH CONFERENCE TO PRESENT A PAPER THAT I WROTE ON ANTIBIOTICS!

They bombard us. It is so annoying. Thanks or posting.

Loren

Thanks for the info everyone! A collaborator of mine was engaging one of these scammers (P. Jimenez), and we became suspicious when we corresponded with P. Jimenez by email that no first name was used (because most of us do that). That is when I found your post. "P. Jimenez" tried to bait us further with promises of hotel and travel coverage , but "only 10% discount of the registration cost".

Beware everybody!

I also got this invitation.

Thanks ! Happened to me too

These seem to be almost daily jokes nowadays. Belowcsomething that I got last night. Yes exactly, clinical medicine. If you write back to them, they do not reply.

Dear Anssi Paasi,

"I'm writing to you to discuss having an update to your past article "Reading Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory" featured in an issue of the Clinical Medicine Review. I think this work would likely be of interest to our readers and that it would be nice to see a paper with more recent data if possible. Or if you haven't continued in this exact line of research maybe we could talk about preparing a research article on some of your related work. Could you please think this over and let me know if you are available to draft an article in the next few months or so?

Best Regards, A. Umana, M.D. Senior Editor Clinical Medicine Review"

Just received an e mail from 'P Jimenez' and was suspicious so did a quick search which led me here. This confirms my suspicions. There are too many fake journals/fake conferences where the only intention is to defraud academics. A colleague was duped into paying a publication fee to a non-existent journal. Something needs to be done to stop this!

I'm getting these too, and pushy 'follow-up' emails asking you to respond!

Mary R O'Brien part of the problem is that many academics are too embarrassed to admit they were duped by a predator. I contacted someone who was listed as a speaker and his criteria for whether the organizers were credible or not stopped being a reliable metric years ago. Even when shown that the conference is listed as a known predator, this is what he wrote to the listed speakers I contacted in an effort to warn them, many of which didn't even know they were being listed:

Dear colleagues,

I will go to this conference and have no reason to believe it is a fake. The organizer will pay my room and conference fee.

Best regards ********* **********

The cost of the conference: $999 to $2999.

But hey, students can get $300 off, and if you are local you can pay $399 for one day attendance that includes 2 coffee breaks. Woohoo!

Totally Fake and i did not buy it .

I told them off, It is alwyas imporrtant o check the orgnising tpanel and venue .

I alwyas google the names they put and contact them

I found this blog from Caltech on Open Access/Predatory Publishers/Questionable Confeences: https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029

Here’s a REAL publication on the topic: Article Predatory Publishing, Questionable Peer Review, and Fraudule...

After numerous requests for them to take me off their email list, telling them straight out "no I will not" and blocking their email addresses, this is what I got just now:

Could you please let me know whether or not this is something you would consider?

Sincerely,

P. Jimenez, Ph.D.

This is like the 15th variation of email ending that they have used: @c2.aoamj-conferences.email

Hi all,

The following website provides tools to help separate the wheat from the chaff:

https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Hugo

Thank you for posting! I am also starting to receive these emails - good led me here. Thank you!

Me too.

Today, I got an email an replied and asked myself. What is going on and found this thread.

Thanks.

It saved some me dissappointments.

Thank you Bruno for the alert.

I also got some emails. Completely fake.

Thank you very much!

Thank you for the alert.

I also got these emails.

P. Jimenez Ph.D is a very busy fellow - luck to have stumbled on this while I was doing a bit of background checking. Not sure that Chicago in August is everyone's favourite destination but you could always take in the Water Environment Federation - 92nd Annual Technical Exhibition & Conference at the same time.

Thank you for alert!!

Went back to the Archives of Applied Medicine journal site. When I clicked on the advertisements for the following two conferences -

Date: August 24, 2019

Global Conference on Neuroscience & Neurology

Date: June 29, 2019

it landed on a page that said that the site has been archived or suspended. Seems like they realize that word about their scam is out.

Have you heard about Lexis Conferences? I thought it was a well known event organizer. But I was invited to participate to a summit in Berlin in May in a

" Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry Summit 2019" that seems questionable...

Caroline Sévoz-Couche the fact that they have this "Please submit your details to get the conference flyer!" suggests they are not trustworthy. Additionally, they don't have a single speaker actually listed and they are the same group as Lexis Publishing which is a Beall's List publisher.

The part that I can't figure out is how FENS got involved with this group. Also, I don't understand why FENS lists 15-16 May, but Lexis lists 17-18 May.

I suggest you contact FENS directly: office(at)fens.org

thank you for your reply!

I would like to inform that I received a proposal to publish a paper and to be a speaker during the conference on medicine but A. Siozos even did not check that I worked at maritime academy and specialize in international relations.

I asked this person to stop sending me e mails.

Mr. Studzieniecki,

I am afraid "A. Siozos" has not even read your reply. They will keep sending you e-mails, no matter what.

Thank you for alert!!

Dear Alexandre Georges ,

would you mind to include the following - by Bruno Chrcanovic characterized as at least 'dubious' journal(s) and/or organizer(s) - into your DOLOS-List of predatory, parasitic, or pseudoscientific publishers and journals (see bottom#) and checking / confirming their fraudulent operation?

Thank you!

These are:

• "Archives of Applied Medicine" ((https://aoamj.org/index.php/aoam)): inviting to attend:
• 2019 Global Conf. on Neuroscience and Neurology ((https://medconferences.eventsmart.com/events/global-conference-on-neuroscience-and-neurology/)) , as well as to attend
• 2019 Annual Conference on Genetics= ((https://medconferences.eventsmart.com/events/annual-genetics-conference/))

==> Viewing other replies in this thread I found additional hints regarding other involved dubious sources:

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• "Lexis Publishing which is a Beall's List publisher. [ cf. Caroline Sévoz-Couche [Re #040] and Randolph B Caldwell [Re#041] ] The part that I can't figure out is how FENS got involved with this group. Also, I don't understand why FENS lists 15-16 May, but Lexis lists 17-18 May.

I suggest you contact FENS directly: office(at)fens.org "

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Clinical Medicine Review (by @ Anssi Paasi ([#023?], 15 days ago )

THANK YOU and the Team of Alexandre Georges:

(communication e.g. via php: @ https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/contact or: via e-mail to:

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​To contact my office for legal, media, or scientific issues, you can use the email address: ​[email protected] "

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#) only yesterday I posted in another thread

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_I_trust_OMICS_iMedPub_Conference_Series_Allied_Academies_Pulsus_Trade_Sci_SciTechnol_and_EuroSciCon)

the following:

[206] Wolfgang H. Muss a few seconds ago added an answer

I think it now is also time to make mention - here in this thread - of the existing and permanently actualized DOLOS-List of Prof. Alexandre Georges :

>List of predatory, parasitic, or pseudoscientific publishers and journals

Please see this article published in the New York Times. The federal government is cracking down on predatory journals/conferences- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/science/predatory-journals-ftc-omics.amp.html

New onslaught of predatory style emails (3 in a 24hr period) from Crimson Publishers, which is also on the Dolos list.

Specifically, "Open Access Biostatistics & Bioinformatics" wants me to submit an article and so much so that three different 'Editors' have emailed me to ask.

I at last blocked these emails, and found that was the only way to be in peace.

Varun Ahuja I have blocked them too (going on 10 years now), but they vary their email addresses and they get through anyway. They also hide who they really are, so keyword blocking also doesn't last.

Perhaps the $50 million fine imposed on OMICS will help, but I won't be holding my breath.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/omics-international-fined-over-50-million-for-deceptive-practices-65698

Agree with you Randolph B Caldwell, but I was luck that they left me there. Probably, coz I am not a very famous researcher ;-)

I think the fine imposed on OMICS will certainly help. As I see that a lot of journals and conference organizers have popped up in last few years and there approach is plainly earning money out of this..

Curious as to what folks think about this blog by the Directory of Open Access Journals regarding whitelists and blacklists:

https://blog.doaj.org/2019/02/25/quality-of-doaj-listed-journals/

I have got many emails from that guy... I am really considering to answer just like James Voicht does with regular spam. I will let you know.

https://youtu.be/_QdPW8JrYzQ

Antonio, love that TED talk video. James Voicht is a creative genius!

Thank you. Same thing happend with me. ignore it. .

I've gotten several emails from P. Jimenez asking me to submit something to their neuroscience conference. I finally replied to one today, letting them know that I am not a neuroscientist, but am a medical librarian and telling them I regularly do presentations on predatory publishers/conferences!

Good for you Janna!

Hi Janna,

I don't think they read the replies. They just keep sending us e-mails, regardless of whether or not you ask them to stop.

It is not a good idea to reply to any predatory publisher, even if it is to decline their offer or ask them to stop emailing you. They can then sell your email contact as a verified address to other publishers. Always block or mark as junk.

Bruno Chrcanovic Again, that might work for Nigerian Princes or Russian brides, but they got our email addresses from our publications. This is targeted spam and a quick search on NCBI or Google Scholar will give the spammers all the verified email addresses they need. They also find our phone numbers and addresses that way too.

Blocking or marking as spam doesn't work either. If it did, we would not all be here complaining about the situation.

Randolph B Caldwell You are right. Our e-mails are all over Pubmed, Web of Science etc., and consequently in Google as well. I have tried to block these e-mails several times, but it is no longer working. It seems that my e-mail service has a limit of registering about 1,000 blocked e-mails. But with so many predatory journals sending us e-mails every day, this limit has been reached a long time ago. Today I just keep deleting them, about 50 times every single day. Sometimes the same person from the same journal creates several e-mails like person001@..., person002@..., person003@..., person250@..., and then it is impossible to avoid this.

More info is coming out regarding predatory journals/conferences. Check out this latest article -https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/predatory-company-uses-canadian-universities-to-sell-shoddy-conferences

I started ~5 years ago sending emails to companies, universities and to individuals informing them of their logo/likeness being fraudulently used to promote predatory conferences. None of the unis/coms replied, but of the dozen or so researchers that did, all but one did not know that they were going to be featured speakers.

The one that was going to be speaking, was a semi-retired gentleman who refused to believe he was being duped because they were going to pay his conference fee and for his room. This istci.org (Dolos list) ~$3000 conference takes place in a month, and I am interested if the guy responds back to me after he attends.

You're welcome @Susana Maria Giuliano!

You're welcome @David H Ballard!

Dear all, I have just received this email from P. Jimenez (Conference Chair Archives of Applied Medicine):

"Thank you for your email. I discussed your topic with the conference committee and they agree that it is within the scope of the conference. You are also eligible for the travel reimbursement funds and I have added your name to the waiting list. Once you register let me know and I will send you the link to apply the 20% discount."

I was ready to make this payment, but thanks to your comment I will not lose my money... Thank you for such valuable information¡ Incredible that these things happen...

Great Andrés Molero-Chamizo ! Don't fall for it!

What about this, do you think it is also a fake?:

https://congressneurology.com/

Because I have alredy made the payment...

Thank you!

Does not look, I am sorry to say...

Thanks, Antonio!

Andrés Molero-Chamizo sorry to inform you, but this is from Scientific Future Group, which is on the Dolos list, and looks to be a typical predatory group.

When I clicked on the link you provided, the first signs of predation were there. As in all the pictures were skewed (obviously taken from online) and made to fit their page. Plus, they don't state up front who they actually are.

Then reading the first paragraph confirmed to me that they aren't serious:

"Welcome to International Conference on Neuroscience, which  going to conducted in Barcelona, Spain during May 15-17, 2019. This conference invites connoisseurs from all pre-eminent universities, research institutions, neurologist, psychiatrists, nurses, student researchers, principal investigators and pathological, imaging, medical instrumental, diagnostic companies to share their research papers on all aspects of this rapidly augmenting field and emblazoning the recent advancements and technologies being now used and the ones being developed on futuristic technologies for further research on neurology and brain science."

I just received this from Lupine Publishers and they want 2 articles from me:

Dear Dr.,

Greetings from LOJ Immunology & Infectious Disease

As we are planning to release the issue by the end of this month, and we are in lacking Two articles. We wish to receive from you.

Hope you understand us and foresee to hear from you soon.

Await your prompt submission.

Sincerely,

Lorie Unice

Randolph, how much did they want you to pay to get published?

Thank you, Randolph¡

After all of your comments, I will be more careful with such invitations...

Many thanks¡

Donna Lisi I didn't bother to ask. lol

Andrés Molero-Chamizo , is it possible to ask your credit card service to cancel the payment?

Randolph B Caldwell , I am tired of deleting these e-mails everyday. Isn't there any "internet regulatory institution" that could block these crooks?

Hi, Bruno. I made the payment two months ago, and I do not think that it can be cancelled now, but I will try it, thank you¡.

Now it is holiday in Spain, but I will try to find out all about this conference….

Thanks to everybody¡

Bruno Chrcanovic they cross international borders and thus anything legal is difficult and expensive. More problematic is that there are respected researchers going to the spammy for-profit conferences because they were duped and don't want to admit it, or use it as a paid vacation (grant/funding sponsored) or for career credits that are awarded even for predatory for-profit conferences (and journals). The latter two, funding paid and credits given, could be stopped very easily.

I now collect all the spammer's email addresses and add them to the CC line on all replies back to the predators - aka reverse spamming. Basically forcing them to block me and hopefully take my name off their lists as well.

Randolph B Caldwell , thanks, I'll do the same (reverse spamming).

Look here:

https://www.cheatsheet.com/gear-style/hilarious-ways-you-can-get-revenge-on-spam-emails.html/

Randolph B Caldwell , I think everyone should do the same. Everytime one receives an e-mail from these swindlers, one should use the reverse spamming and fill up their e-mail postboxes with replies. Here are the subjects:

“E. Padron, Ph.D.”

"A. Siozos, M.D."

"P. Jimenez, Ph.D."

"Dr. A Lesnevskyi M.D."

Bruno, just curious- are any of these folks on ResearchGate?

There is one more:

"A. Umana, M.D."

Donna Lisi , there is a Alexander Lesnevsky and there is a Ariana Lisnevsky, but you can notice that the last name is not exactly the same as "Dr. A. Lesnevskyi M.D.", and none of the two are M.D.

I was also able to find people with the exact same last name as the others, namely Umana, Siozos, Padron, and Jimenez. But they are just using some last names and not properly identifying themselves by concealing the first name.

Thanks Bruno. Great detective work!

Dear Colleagues

This should be of the interest of all researchers:

https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING

Predatory Publishing: An Industry that Is Threatening Science:

https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-QUESTIONABLE-PRACTICES-IN-RESEARCH-AND-PUBLISHING/update/5c3ef8adcfe4a76455115c37

As you can see in the following, due to the new "data protection legislation" nowadays there is a big "fire wall" with regard to mentioning 'clear-names' of Registrants. Everybody can register for an URL/Domain more or less anonymously, e.g. - as in this case - via GoDaddy,

protected by Data Protection / Privacy Act:

for the

Domain Name: journals-cmr.org (see above: "A. Umana, M.D.", Re [084] by Bruno Chrcanovic : "[email protected]")

(See: WHO IS: @ https://www.godaddy.com/whois, i the search field

insert: journals-cmr.org and proceed with chapta....:

-Quote- : "Registry Domain ID: D402200000007797707-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com Updated Date: 2018-09-28T08:24:40Z Creation Date: 2018-09-28T08:24:39Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-09-28T08:24:39Z Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC Registrar IANA ID: 146 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited Registry Registrant ID: CR341204323 Registrant Name: Registration Private Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC Registrant Street: DomainsByProxy.com Registrant Street: 14455 N. Hayden Road Registrant City: Scottsdale Registrant State/Province: Arizona Registrant Postal Code: 85260 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.4806242599 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.4806242598 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Registry Admin ID: CR341204325 Admin Name: Registration Private Admin Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC Admin Street: DomainsByProxy.com Admin Street: 14455 N. Hayden Road Admin City: Scottsdale Admin State/Province: Arizona Admin Postal Code: 85260 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.4806242599 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: +1.4806242598 Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: [email protected] Registry Tech ID: CR341204324 Tech Name: Registration Private Tech Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC Tech Street: DomainsByProxy.com Tech Street: 14455 N. Hayden Road Tech City: Scottsdale Tech State/Province: Arizona Tech Postal Code: 85260 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.4806242599 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +1.4806242598 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: [email protected] Name Server: ANDY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Name Server: KARA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-04-21T21:00:00Z

Wolfgang H. Muss, so it would be very difficult to stop these crooks unless we continue to warn other researchers about this scheme.

Wolfgang, just a side note but here is an interesting post that I found about an elaborate GoDaddy email scam- https://imaginehigher.com/godaddy-email-scam/

Dear Bruno Chrcanovic , yes you might be right.... that's why I am still in the " loop " (hopefully that is correct E] of reiterating the warnings in as many RG- threads as possible....

Dear Donna Lisi , thank you for this one.... As we can see or learn once more again, you / one can be fooled anytime...and trapped by "intelligent" scammers....

The last attack I (my AV-system) was faced has been an attempt to intrude my PC to install a trojan... when I visited a presumably "true Indian Journal's" website...

Fortunately my AV-System blocked that action... Some hour afterwards I read in an e-mail sent by computerwissen.de (German): - quote-

".... Hacker haben im HTML-Code von Webseiten ein raffiniertes Versteck gefunden, um dort hochgefährliche Malware und Phishing-Tools zu platzieren. Betroffen sind davon auch Webseiten mit dem vermeintlichen Sicherheitsgütesiegel „https“ in der Adresszeile.

Versteckt werden die fatalen Programmcodes in einem Verzeichnis namens „/well-know“, das die Cyberkriminellen so gut tarnen, dass es Sicherheitsexperten und Administratoren von Webseiten nicht auffällt. - End of quote-

(attempt to translate quickly but correctly too):

quote

"hacker did find a sneaky hiding-place within HTML-code of websites to place there / to implement high-risk Malware and Phishing-tools. This affects ALSO websites with "https:" in their URL, supposedly to be safe!

These fatal program codes are cashed in a directory called „/well-know“, which the cybercriminals camouflage in such a brilliant way that even safety experts as wellas website-administrators are fooled...." end of quote

Best regards, WHM

NOTE ADDED some minute after initial post:

mostly at risk: pages created with WORDPRESS or Joomla

( FYI: 60% of all German websites have been created by using wordpress )

Wolfgang thanks for the warning! It’s alwsrs good to know a scammer‘s modus operad.

Wolfgang H. Muss and @Randolph B Caldwell, staff from Researchgate (I received an e-mail from them) deleted my post (in another discussion) informing on the e-mails of those who keep sending me - and many others - those invitations to fraudulent congresses and journals, "because it contained someone else's personal data". Schade! We cannot even put the word out about these people! We cannot even defend ourselves!

Bruno, maybe it would be better to warn directly about the websites of these predator congresses; in this way, no personal data are shown… Would not? There are a lot of concerns about the personal data protection, but what about the use of fake congress to earn money illegally?

Andrés Molero-Chamizo , OK, here we go: the “names” from those I believe to belong to the same group that keep flooding my postbox, and the websites:

“E. Padron, Ph.D.” Website: https://spg.ltd/

"A. Siozos, M.D." Website: https://aoamj.org/index.php/aoam

"P. Jimenez, Ph.D." Website: https://aoamj.org/index.php/aoam (There was also a website for a so-called "conference", but now there is only a message "This site has been archived or suspended.")

"Dr. A Lesnevskyi M.D." Website: https://internalmedicinereview.org/index.php/imr

"A. Umana, M.D." Website: https://journals.copernicuspublishing.com/

Thank you, Bruno, doing like this nobody can tell that personal data have been shown… On the other hand, I still have a concern about the veracity of this Congress: https://congressneurology.com/

I have called to the Hotel where it suppose to be conducted, and they have confirmed that this congress has been booked… I addition, I have asked an invoice of my registration payment, and they have sent it to me (although I am not sure if that invoice is valid). But, I have tried to contact with different members of the organizing committee appearing in the website of the congress, and nobody has replied to me...

I am confused and do not know what to do...

Dear Alexandre Georges this only FYKI... I am away from my PC so i can‘ t reply too long here using my IPhone.... i had also the Impression that perhaps some posts in RESgate have been deleted... Not knowing whether authors/Posters of such replies have been informed about.... Shall come back to this thread, dear Bruno Chrcanovic ....hopefully we can find a solution ! Best regards, Wolfgang

Dear Andrés Molero-Chamizo , I have found your lecture title*) in the "tentative program (as of file name) of the Barcelona "Congress" you are concerned about....https://congressneurology.com/ = NEUROLOGY-2019, to happen in Barcelona, May 15-17.

*) from Tentative Program:

https://scientificfuturegroup.com/admin/pdfs/196-neurology-2019-tentative_program.pdf .

But on "paper" it is called: "OFFICIAL scientifc Program" (https://scientificfuturegroup.com/admin/pdfs/196-neurology-2019-tentative_program.pdf) :

so I found that you, Andrés Molero Chamizo, got '40 minutes lecture', which seems extraordinary :

Day 2 16-May-19 09:30-10:10

Title: Prefrontal cortex anodal tDCS effects on self-reported aggressiveness in imprisoned violent offenders

Andrés Molero Chamizo, University of Huelva, Spain

where there are - three weeks prior to the conference - and one can find mistakes in spelling : e.g. : „Pannel“ Discussion.

Note: the term: PANNEL does not exist may be "indian (E)Inglish", instead it should read ‚Panel‘ ....and only on first sight I found also there:

PROGRAM: Day 3 16-May-19

Lectures ? (titles) do have only terms: A, B, C…..- G instead of a definite time schedule! Or should this read "Posters"?

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Besides a lot of interesting information I collected and saved to HD (I can provide that information to you on request to [email protected]) from web sources available (you/one only have/has to search with the right search phrases, including "scientificfuturegroup.com"),

for now I only can point you to Beall's 'old-old' list (2016) as well as to the ACTUAL Dolos list of Prof. Alexandre Georges , [cf.: https://www.professeur-alexandre-georges.info/dolos-list] where (as the real organizer of the conference) can be found listed under:

Predatory or Parasitic PUBLISHERS

as - Scientific Future - (underlying URL= scientificfuturegroup.com).*)

If they THERE are characterized as Predatory or Parasitic PUBLISHERS, why should they be "NON-PREDATORY or Non-parasitic, OR - at least - Non-Dubious / Non-Questionable Conference organizers?

Dear Alexandre Georges , would you mind to list them in DOLOS List under part/section:

< Dubious or fake conferences organizers >

too ?? Thank you for your efforts!

*) NB: Dear Andrés Molero-Chamizo , were you aware that you are not attending a conference of a "European (London, UK) or US-Company (as the mentioned address:

Our Contacts

Trolley Square, Suite 19C Wilmington, DE 19806, USA

phone numbers in "Contact" suggest),

but an INDIAN Company, located in HYDERABAD, India?

cf:

http://scientificfuturegroup.com/

contact info

Trolley Square, Suite 19C Wilmington, DE 19806, USA

USA : +1-646-828-7579

UK : +44-203-695-1242

Email : [email protected]

BUT: Contact:

http://scientificfuturegroup.com/contact.php:

ADDRESS

Plot No-46/B, Madhapur, hyderabad, India 500081

TELEPHONE

USA : +1-646-828-7579

UK : +44-203-695-1242

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My conclusion regarding your concerns about the conference in Barcelona based on facts found in websources perhaps turns out / would be ( logically ) to be rather "questionable" than to be a real academic congress (as it would be organized by International or National Societies "Neurology" **),

as most other colleagues would think or would be convinced.

**) e.g.

Neurology CONFERENCES in 2019 (64 CONFERENCES) https://theconferencewebsite.com/conferences/neurology