Yet more fervent curiosity
Half a year ago, Jennifer Brown was impelled by a fervent scientific curiosity. I think it might be spreading among the denizens of Manassas, VA Hyderabad, since Paul Anderson has approached me with the same affliction.
The commonality of the templates is too close to be happenstance. But whereas Journal of Neurology and Neurological Disorders is shat onto the web by Annex Publishers, Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research comes from JScholar.
Confusingly enough, JScholar also excretes its own Journal of Neurophysiology and Neurological Disorders. It's only a matter of time…
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:34:05 +0530 From: Editor-Bioinformatics <editor@researchergrip.biz> Reply-To: Editor-Bioinformatics <submissions@scholarsresearch.biz> Subject: Opportunity to Share your Innovation on Biomedical Engineering
Impelled by a fervent scientific curiosity in the field of Biomedical Engineering, we are inviting submissions for the Regular Issue in the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research, which we are planning to release very soon. Avail this opportunity to share your scientific excellences and be a part of our esteemed journal. You may submit your article/s through Online Submission System (click here) Looking forward to having your association with us! Sincerely, Paul Anderson Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research Click here to Unsubscribe
As I noted with Jen's message, alt="none" does not hide the tracking image, it provides alternative text should the image not be rendered. To show nothing, this attribute should be set to alt="" or removed altogether. (LOL)
<img src="http://scistudymail.biz/mm_t3/tracking.php?tc=[snip]" style="display:none;" alt="none" />Less than a week has passed, and Paul returns on behalf of JBER. No longer impelled by a fervent scientific curiosity, the smooth-talking bastard's now much impressed by my research. Awww, shucks! (proud)
Anyhow, like Olivia Madison, he's so keen to engage with me that he's included two tracking images. One of these is hidden from view by an empty ALT attribute. The other is hidden
by having the attribute set to none
—which has completely the opposite of the desired effect—and with inline CSS. Both are then hidden within an undisplayed DIV element. Talk about belt-and-braces, he's clearly serious about ensuring his recipients are unaware of being monitored.
Unlike Olivia's though, these tracking images will not be activated. I viewed his message only in source mode, and I don't intend replying. Once again, I suspect that this is an unmonitored email address, so there's no fun to be had.
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:56:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Editor-Bioinformatics <jber@authorexamination.biz> Subject: Publicize your Research Work Reply-To: Editor-Bioinformatics <submissions@scholarsresearch.biz>
We are very much impressed by your research and we are contacting you to know your opinion, if you can associate with us by submitting your upcoming research work in the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research. The objectives of this Journal is to cater the latest researches, advances in Biomedical Engineering and its remarkable innovations. -Online Submission link Please click on the link below for submission details http://authorexamination.biz/paper-submission.php?journal=33 Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to work with you soon. Sincerely, Paul Anderson Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research
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/* there was no closing </div> tag */Paul thinks that my published work is very innovative. I would take that as a compliment, if it were true and I thought he knew what the hell he was talking about. But he clearly doesn't, because it isn't any more innovative than 99% of the work published in the mainstream academic journals. It also has no bearing on the field of biomedical engineering, but that's just par for the course with these predatory bastards.
The upload URL is http://researchexperiments.biz/paper-submission.php?journal=33, the same domain as the tracking image. Interestingly, the same journal number, but different domain, as in his message from two weeks ago. Clearly, the domains redirect to the same central one: jscholarpublishers.com. I don't know what the point of that is, but it certainly gives off skeevy vibes.
Just as an experiment in social engineering, I'm going to try that unsubscribe link. It doesn't redirect to jscholarpublishers.com, but remains at researchexperiments.biz, so I have a feeling that it only unsubscribes
from this domain. I await Paul's return from another!
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:57:32 +0530 From: Editor-Bioinformatics <editor@scimedjrnlopenpubres.biz> Reply-To: Editor-Bioinformatics <submissions@scholarsresearch.biz> Subject: Biomedical Engineering - Welcoming Manuscript Submissions
Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas in the forum of research related in the field of Biomedical Engineering. We came across your article with the title "[irrelevant to the field of biomedical engineering]" and thought to be very innovative. Thus we warmly welcome you to submit your next article towards JBER. You may submit your article in the following link. You may submit your article/s through Online Submission System (click here) As the journal is not funded by any funding resources we will charge the minimum publication fee (based on the economic standards of the country which is given by World Bank) to maintain its standards online. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to work with you soon. Sincerely, Paul Anderson Journal of Biomedical Engineering and ResearchResearch To stop receiving these emails, unsubscribe
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</div>And the very next day, Paul's back. Not only that, he's coming from the same domain that I unsubscribed from yesterday, researchexperiments.biz. That's disappointing.
I was expecting him to return, but from a completely different domain, thereby demonstrating that unsubscribing only applies to the sending domain, and not others under the jscholarpublishers.com umbrella. As it turns out, it appears that unsubscribing doesn't even work for that domain.
I can't say I'm surprised. The purpose of links in these messages is to confirm an active mail account, not to benefit the recipient.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:47:00 +0530 From: Editor-Bioinformatics <editor@sciadvancejrnlres.biz> Reply-To: Editor-Bioinformatics <submissions@scholarsresearch.biz> Subject: Biomedical Applications: New innovative work submission
We are please to invite you for the submission of the articles in the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research for the release of the upcoming issue. The goal of the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research is to publish the most recent results in the development of Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Applications. You may submit your article/s at the below URL http://researchexperiments.biz/paper-submission.php?journal=33 Thank you for considering our email, and spending your valuable time in reading it. Sincerely, Paul Anderson Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Research
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