Authors Beware: Open Access Predatory Journals

Abstract

Email notices of spurious offers of newly discovered inheritances, false reporting describing security breaches of financial accounts, and other deceptive ploys are received on a continuous basis by email users. These emails have only one purpose—to illegally capture the recipients’ confidential account information for fraudulent purposes. Hopefully, these intentionally deceptive notices are recognized as counterfeit by most recipients. Unfortunately, this deceptive practice for unscrupulous financial gain is now targeting open access publishing.

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