28 November, 2014

Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper | Scholarly Open Access

Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper | Scholarly Open Access: After receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Dr. Peter Vamplew of Federation University Australia’s School of Engineering and Information Technology sent the anti-spam article as a reply to the spam email without any other message, expecting that they might open it and read it, but not that it would be considered for publication.



To his surprise, the journal accepted the paper and sent him an acceptance email that had two PDF attachments. One was a formal statement of acceptance and the second was the reviewer report.