Scam invitations to non-existent conferences
#325954 by floe Sun Apr 23, 2017 2:13 pm
A colleague of mine came across this conference website, and a large number of people on the program committee are from our research community but were never asked to participate, which is generally a sign of a "predatory conference". In fact, the list was apparently mostly swiped from the (legitimate) EICS 2017 conference website.

It looks like the organizers are IISRC ( http://www.iisrcrcc.com/iisrcrcc/contact-us/ ), both websites share the same IP address. We already tried to contact a couple of the providers (hosting/domain/payment), but no responses so far.

floe
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#325955 by floe Sun Apr 23, 2017 2:40 pm
Just found an additional bunch of "conferences" hosted on the same server:

i2cst.com 2017-04-10
icaces.com 2017-04-10
icaetm.com 2017-04-10
icamee.com 2017-04-10
icashm.com 2017-04-10
iccnsce.com 2017-04-10
iccpma.com 2017-04-10
iccsea.com 2017-04-10
iccseas.com 2017-04-10
ichciai.com 2017-04-10
icmmhphm.com 2017-04-10
ictilt.com 2017-04-10

The apparently organizing corporation:

iisrcgroup.org 2017-04-21
iisrcrcc.com 2017-04-10

Fake conference event calendar and "Open Learning Society":

eventfoster.com 2017-04-10
openlsociety.org 2017-04-21

And some apparently unrelated domains:

tableservicetonite.com 2016-02-01
alcnepal.org 2017-04-21
drnarendrathagunna.com 2017-04-16

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