If you're going to credit me with someone else's work, at least choose something interesting

• 11.03.2022 10:42 UTC+01:00
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I'm used to invitations to publish my work in journals, or attend conferences, the scope of which are outside my realm of expertise, such as it is. I'm also used to my published work being extolled to elicit my engagement. All for the financial benefit of some morally- and ethically-bereft predator.

But, this is the first time that I've been attributed someone else's work in an effort to lure me; even if it's as dull and uninspiring as a systematic literature review *yawn*. Is this the valuable submission that our intrepid conference manager is following up, I wonder? (thinking)

Often, with email marketing campaigns such as this, the tracking URI has two tokens: one that's specific to the campaign; and the other specific to the recipient. By following the campaign token, it's possible to view the template that forms the basis for the spam. Usually, it simply has a [NAME] field for the mail merge.

Unfortunately, there's no defined campaign-specific token in this case, just a view counter, which may be generic or a combined campaign/recipient token. I would like to have seen the template, to know whether there was a [PUBLICATION] field also, or whether the same work by Francis et al. (2015) is being used for all recipients. Just out of idle curiosity.

Nevertheless, congratulations go to Diya Jessica—I'm not sure whether that's firstname/lastname or lastname/firstname—for exploring hitherto uncharted waters of incompetence.

Reply-To: "diyajessica@unitedresearchmeetings.com" <diyajessica@unitedresearchmeetings.com>
From: "Biological Sciences " <diyajessica@urfsummit.com>
Subject: Follow up for your valuable submission

Best wishes from the United Research Forum!! I hope you and your family are all safe and healthy. I am very pleased to request you to serve as a panel speaker at Webinar: International E-Conference on Biological Science scheduled for March 24-25, 2022. Due to continued COVID uncertainties, the panel portion of our conference will be held in a live virtual format via Zoom Webinar with moderated Q&A. This year’s conference theme is Modernistic Advancements and Innovative applications in Biological Sciences. This unique conference brings together professionals from diverse fields to share their knowledge, dialogue, and explore issues related to the theme, and its impact on government, education, science, business, economics, medicine, arts, and more. As a panelist, you will share your professional and personal vantage points and opinions on selected topics to an audience of Industrialists, academicians, domestic and international students, community members. We went through your profile, and research article Disparities in cardiovascular disease among Caribbean populations: a systematic literature review, based on your profile we are honored you as a Speaker at this conference. Each panel session is 60 minutes in length with 2-panel speakers. Each speaker will be allotted between 25-30 minutes to speak on the topic from their perspective. The session is then opened for a moderated Q&A by one of our conference committee members. For details please visit: https://unitedresearchforum.com/biologicalsciences-conference/ We request you to kindly reply to us back with your acceptance. On behalf of myself and the conference advisory committee, thank you for your consideration and we look forward to having you share your expertise with our attendees! Best Regards Diya Jessica | Conference Manager Webinar- Biological Science 2022 1-75 Shelton St, Covent Garden London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom You are receiving this email because of your relationship with the sender. To safely unsubscribe or modify your subscription settings please click here