Cannot be arsed
Sometimes predatory spam is so low-energy that I wonder whether they actually expect a response. I'm inclined to think that their sole intent is to fill my inbox with shit.
From: Leah Stella <biotechnology@ptzoa.org>
Stay Safe and Stay Healthy. We acknowledge and really appreciate your research and contributions made to the scientific community. We would like to invite you to contribute your valuable and imminent articles towards our journal and to make it open for all the researchers across the globe. Submission Due Date: 20-05-2021 Please let us know your opinion towards submission. Feel free to contact us for assistance and queries. With anticipation, Alessandra M, Managing Editor California, USA E-mail: Alessandramaggie759@gmail.com If you are not comfortable with our emails, please unsubscribe.
It's not too strange that the message is sent from a different address to the throwaway gmail—gmail just screams professionalism, doesn't it kids? It's also unsurprising that there are no details explaining how to unsubscribe from their emails, nor a functional link. I was mildly surprised, almost uplifted, to see that although Alessandra M
is purportedly in the US, she uses the more internationally-accepted dd-mm-yyyy date format; unless she thinks there are twenty months in a year, but I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt. That's just the kind of guy I am.
No, what really shines out from this solicitation is the critical information that's missing. I don't know the title of the garbage-level journal to which I should contribute my valuable and imminent articles
, or even the field of academic study that it's diminishing.