Clever ho
Oooh, here's another way around Outlook's block sender function. And it's so obvious, I can't imagine why didn't I see it coming. Rather than faking the domain name, simply faking the generic mailer name before the @
also works. (slaphead)
When Sophia Williams requested my expertise in clinical medicine as an editorial board member of Mega Journal of Case Reports, she used chief-editor@megajournalcasereports.info as her From header. Now, Sara Williams—I've no idea whether she's related to Sophia, or actually is Sophia, and simply forgot her name—is using casereports@megajournalcasereports.info to solicit my manuscripts in the field of medicine. Simple, but effective!
To quote Bob Peck's game warden character, Muldoon, in Jurassic Park: Clever girl.
Unless she's forgotten whether she's Sophia or Sara, that is.
From: "Editor" <casereports@megajournalcasereports.info>
Reply-To: "Editor" <editor@megajournalcasereports.org>
Subject: Reminder: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 0.969)
Greetings for the day! We are aware of your reputation for quality of research and trustworthiness in the field of "Medicine" and so we would like to invite you to contribute a paper to our upcoming issue of our journal. Based on your expertise and extreme contributions related to the areas of medicine, we are glad to invite you to publish your upcoming research in our esteemed journal, which will have a global impact on readers. Thus, on behalf of our Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 0.969), we hereby take the privilege of inviting you to write any type of research, review, short review, short commentary/communication, video article, image article, case report, letter to the editor, opinion, perspective, book review, etc. for the upcoming issue. We would appreciate your manuscript submission on or before May 10th, 2022, at the earliest, so that we can process it for our May issue release. You may submit your paper directly to this email or you can submit through our manuscript submission form here. We look forward to hearing back from you soon! Best Regards, Sara Williams Associate Manager Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 0.969) USA
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Another From address, another missive from Sara Williams and Mega Journal of Case Reports. This time, in order to show how unique my excellence and expertise
is, I used the highlighted part of the tracking URL to reveal the template used to spam the entirety of her shitlist.
Not only is she looking forward to my positive response, she's awaiting my positive reply and waiting for my response. The bitch's quite clearly keen to the point of desperation. Poor soul.
I wonder how many of those recipients on that shitlist also opened her message in such a way so as not to activate the tracker, or had it go unnoticed directly to junk mail. I wonder how many activated the tracker, but didn't reply. What would be worse? (thinking)
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:22:43 +0000 Subject: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.760) From: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.760) <editor@mjcroa.com> Reply-To: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.760) <editor@megajournalcasereports.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings from Sara! We tried several times, but there is no response from you, we would like to contact you again for your valuable submission! By understanding your research profile and previous publications, our journal acknowledges your excellence and expertise. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.760) follow fast peer-review process (15-25 days) and rapid publication of the articles. We are planning to release our Journal's Volume 5/Issue 15 by November 30, 2022. Please feel free to contact us for any journal related queries. We look forward your positive response. Thank you very much. Awaiting your positive reply. Waiting for your response Sara Williams Associate Manager USA
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Another wizz from MailWizz, and from Mega Journal of Case Reports.
Apparently, Sara Williams has contacted me, and every other recipient on her shitlist, several times without response. That's most remiss of us, especially since she found one of our published articles to be very knowledgeable
. I shall rectify our collective oversight. Let's see if this elicits a response from her US-based
server, rather than the campaign server. (wink)
I opened her message in source view to avoid activating the inevitable tracker image. Obviously, the read receipt
was triggered when I opened it to reply. But skeevy ho doesn't know that I know that.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:09:33 +0000 Subject: Prof. [snip]: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) From: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) <sarawilliams@jclinmedpub.com> Reply-To: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) <editor@megajournalcasereports.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings for the day!! We tried several times, but we received no response from you, we take this opportunity to contact you again! Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) Journal would like to appreciate your contribution towards the scientific community by publishing your invaluable work. We have gone through one of your recently published articles found it very knowledgeable. It is our honor to invite eminent scientists like you to publish your quality research work as manuscripts to support the global scientific community. Our new Volume 6 / Issue 5 will exclusively contain Original research, Review, Mini Review, Case report, Clinical Image, Short communication and Perspective manuscripts contributed. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be May 30, 2023. Kindly submit your manuscript to our journal online submission form. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA https://fth-mail.articlemailsender.online/index.php/lists/dn404v8xjy587/unsubscribe
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Subject: Re: [snip]: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) To: Mega Journal of Case Reports <editor@megajournalcasereports.org> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:00:54 +0100
Dear Sara Williams, I sincerely apologise for not replying to your previous contact attempts. That is very remiss of me. I do hope that you can forgive my oversight, and that this rectifies the matter. Best wishes,
The cheeky fuckers have now changed the subdomain for their tracker to subscriber
. Naturally, I am not a subscriber, since I have never—willingly or knowingly—subscribed. Having a publicly-available email address doesn't constitute subscription.
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:04:11 +0000 Subject: Reminder - Prof. [snip]: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) From: Chief-Editor <info@mjopub.com> Reply-To: Chief-Editor <editor@megajournalsurgery.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings for the day!! Warm wishes from Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980)! Having gone through your previously published articles, we recognized your expertise and vast knowledge in the research field. Keeping in view of your valuable contributions to the research community, we would like to invite you to submit your articles to our journal upcoming issue. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) follow fast peer-review process (10-20 days) and rapid publication of the articles. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be Augsut 29, 2023. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA If you wish not to receive mail please unsubscribe from here. click here to report Abuse/spam complaints.
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A far more honest subdomain to emailsendarticle.com this time. First we had emails
, then subscriber
, and now track
. That's about as bloody transparent as we're likely to get from this outfit!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:10:06 +0000 Subject: Reminder - Prof. [snip]: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) From: Chief-Editor <submission@mjspub.info> Reply-To: Chief-Editor <editor@megajournalsurgery.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings for the day!! Warm wishes from Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980)! Having gone through your previously published articles, we recognized your expertise and vast knowledge in the research field. Keeping in view of your valuable contributions to the research community, we would like to invite you to submit your articles to our journal upcoming issue. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) follow fast peer-review process (10-20 days) and rapid publication of the articles. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be Augsut 29, 2023. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA If you wish not to receive mail please unsubscribe from here. click here to report Abuse/spam complaints.
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Let's see if that MailWizz unsubscribe link is any more effective than over at Remedy's AJOHNS or CCRI.
Quelle surprise! Sara doesn't want me to leave her shitlist.
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:04:35 +0000 Subject: Follow up Reminder - Dr. : Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) From: Editor in Chief <editor@clinicalandmedicalcases.info> Reply-To: Editor in Chief <editor@megajournalsurgery.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings for the day!! Warm wishes from Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980)! Having gone through your previously published articles, we recognized your expertise and vast knowledge in the research field. Keeping in view of your valuable contributions to the research community, we would like to invite you to submit your articles to our journal upcoming issue. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) follow fast peer-review process (10-20 days) and rapid publication of the articles. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be August 15, 2023. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA If you wish not to receive mail please unsubscribe from here. click here to report Abuse/spam complaints.
Although the unsubscribe link isn't the only part of her template that seems to be broken! (rolleyes)
Dear Prof. , Greetings for the day!! Warm wishes from Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980)! Having gone through your previously published articles, we recognized your expertise and vast knowledge in the research field. Keeping in view of your valuable contributions to the research community, we would like to invite you to submit your articles to our journal upcoming issue. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) follow fast peer-review process (10-20 days) and rapid publication of the articles. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be August 15, 2023. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA If you wish not to receive mail please unsubscribe from here. click here to report Abuse/spam complaints.
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Let's see if the abuse report is any more successful than the unsubscribe. I'm not going to hold out too much hope.
Despite the abuse report, Sara's still at it, reusing another domain this time.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:09:51 +0000 Subject: Dear Eminent [snip]: Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) From: MJCR <editor@medclinpubj.in> Reply-To: MJCR <editor@megajournalsurgery.org>
Dear Prof. [NAME], Greetings for the day!! Warm wishes from Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980)! Having gone through your previously published articles, we recognized your expertise and vast knowledge in the research field. Keeping in view of your valuable contributions to the research community, we would like to invite you to submit your articles to our journal upcoming issue. Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) follow fast peer-review process (10-20 days) and rapid publication of the articles. Timeline for the submission of manuscript would be September 15, 2023. We do hope you will respond positively to this invitation. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Sara Williams, Associate Manager, Mega Journal of Case Reports (Impact Factor: 1.980) USA If you wish not to receive mail please unsubscribe from here. click here to report Abuse/spam complaints.
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