NIKOS MASTORAKIS' personal notes. My personal blog in the WSEAS Server and my personal protests against Spam

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January 18, 2011

My NEW Books as Editor

*** NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTER RESEARCH, Nova P., Nikos E. Mastorakis (Editor)

*** COMPUTER DESIGN & COMPUTATIONAL DEFENSE SYSTEMS, Nova P.,N. E. Mastorakis (Editor)

*** NETWORKS and QUANTUM COMPUTING, Nova P., Nikos E. Mastorakis (Editor)

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June 17, 2011

Mrs. Rena Politi, my secretariat told me that several quite reliable sites (university URL addresses) have posted this email from IEEE. With little google research you can see it posted in several places of the blogsphere.

From: EButterfield@computer.org
to: EButterfield@computer.org
cc: ABurgess@computer.org,
John Walz: , Reisman, Sorel" , AStickley@computer.org, TBaldwin@computer.org, r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk
date Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:03 AMsubject Confidential: Important CPS Message Regarding Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions

TO: CPS Clients FROM: Evan Butterfield, Director of Products and Services RE: Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions (CONFIDENTIAL) DATE: 16 January 2009

The IEEE Computer Society (CS) has evidence that multiple (IEEE) conferences are receiving machine-generated papers. In two cases, conferences have actually accepted an obviously fraudulent submission. This is a serious issue that threatens the credibility of your conference, the quality of the digital library, and the reputation of both the IEEE and CS. It requires your immediate attention. Please take this opportunity to ensure that your peer review processes are being followed, and adapt to any new requirements that may be communicated by the IEEE or the Computer Society. No conference published by CPS should rely on an abstract review. It is very important that you review carefully the full text of all papers submitted to your conference. If you have already accepted papers, your program committee should review the full text again. While CPS staff will be conducting random spot-checks of conference papers in the publishing queue, we are relying on you to authenticate the content of your proceedings. Any papers that were not actually presented at your conference need to be brought to our attention, and should receive close review. In known cases, the machine-generated origin is obvious from a reading of the first few paragraphs of the paper; the abstracts are human-generated and do not indicate the quality of the paper itself. In the past, papers have been submitted by “Herbert Schlangemann,” but be mindful that the perpetrator of this fraud will change the approach over time. In the event you discover any evidence of questionable content or behavior, please communicate that to us immediately along with an action plan for addressing the problem. Thank you for your help in maintaining the quality of our products.

END OF IEEE EMAIL

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June 17, 2011

I have received an email from my collaborator Mrs. Efi Gourgoura that the following WSEAS Journals have been accepted in CiteseerX as well as many many WSEAS Proceedings. Congratulations to our authors, reviewers and Editors

Dear Prof. Mastorakis

In the Index CiteseerX, you might found numerous WSEAS Proceedings and thousand WSEAS papers .Also, the CiteseerX Index indexes the following WSEAS Journals

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on CIRCUITS and SYSTEMS
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMPUTERS
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on INFORMATION SCIENCE and APPLICATIONS
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BIOLOGY and BIOMEDICINE
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Eftychia

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June 16, 2011

Dear Colleagues,

Today, June 16, 2011, I received 17 copies of the following SPAM email today from IEEE Circuits and Systems. IEEE Conference Organizers and other IEEE Officers (like Gasacrh and Fotrnow that organize some IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity blamed the WSEAS for Spam some years ago. Unfortunately, they had found SPAM and negative comments on the blogs only for the ... WSEAS. For their beloved .... IEEE, they have not found anything on the blogs. Maybe, they have never heard the SCIgen papers that proved how vulnerable were the IEEE conferences (They have never heard anything about: "IEEE Nagib Callaos", google it and many others)

Doesn't IEEE Spam the academic community everyday?
Hasn't IEEE accept several SCIgen papers in the thousand conferences that use the name of IEEE? I address the same question to some other "academicians" that organize IEEE conferences sending us many unsolicited emails everyday advertising their fake conferences (some of them are really bogus) and then they protest against us for Spam.
It is also interesting but the fake conferences sent also SPAM to my daughter Zenia Mastorakis (13 years old) - not having any relation with science at the moment.
So, many conference organisers of other societies have put unacceptable comments against WSEAS in some blogs. It is better for them to see the following IEEE Mesh:

from jetcas@tcad.polito.it
reply-to jetcas@tcad.polito.it
to mastor@hna.gr (the same SPAM of IEEE also was sent to: mastor@wseas.org, mastor@hna.gr, zenia.mastorakis@gmail.com, peri@wseas.org ) mastorakis4567@gmail.com
date 15 June 2011 13:49
subject Newsletter Jetcas June 2011
hide details 15 Jun (1 day ago)
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)

We are honored to welcome readers and authors to the inaugural issue of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS for short), which is sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S.)

The journal, which is freely accessible on-line to all CAS-S members, aims to build a platform for the broad and timely dissemination of key innovative results and findings in rapidly-growing and/or emerging topic areas within the scope of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Such potentially interdisciplinary emerging topics will be selected as long as, first, they are clearly situated at the forefront of current scientific and technological developments and, second, they are expected to grow over time in scientific and professional importance and, therefore, in the number of active practitioners. From this point of view, JETCAS is expected to create new communities interested in the long-term development of the most promising subjects presented in the journal. The editorial strategy followed by JETCAS will be the publication of Special Issues on the selected topics. These issues will include research contributions from leading experts and presentations geared towards a wide audience of scientists and practitioners in the form of overview and tutorial-style articles and multidisciplinary research papers.

MASSOUD PEDRAM, Editor-in-Chief (EiC)

MANUEL DELGADO-RESTITUTO, Deputy EiC

ENRICO MACII, 2010-2011 VP Publications, IEEE CAS-S

GIANLUCA SETTI, 2010 President, IEEE CAS-S

Volume 1, Issue 1 - Inaugural Edition
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5503868

Pedram, M.; Delgado-Restituto, M.; Macii, E.; Setti, G., Inaugural Editorial
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5765455

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(and more than 200 lines of IEEE Spam follow .........................................)

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April 25, 2011

Some author t.dafieri told us that some SCIgen papers have been accepted in an IEEE Conference again

I do not know who is T. DAFIERI but he proposed me to follow this link
http://crappyconferences.blogspot.com/

Unlike IEEE that was victim of SCIgen fake papers many times (google it), we are really proud that the WSEAS conferences and books have nothing to do with these strange stories because WSEAS has a strong review mechanism and we have never published fake papers. Unlike IEEE , WSEAS is very careful in our selection of Conference Chairmen, Reviewers, and organizers.
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake-ieee-conferences.html

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March 28, 2011
Prof. Aida Bulucea (University of Craiova) received this email and forwarded it to us. Everybody can made his own conclusions.... The discussion among Prof. Aida Bulucea and Joanna Carpender is on IEEE Spam and on Fake Conferences. I think that IEEE must affiliate a better control before nominating some body as organizer or chairman in some of its conferences....

From: Aida Bulucea <abulucea@gmail.com>
Date: 29 March 2011 09:54
Subject: Fwd: See this email and made your own conclusions (Fake IEEE Conferences again attacked the academic community)

To: "Nikos Mastorakis - Techn. Univ. Sofia" <mastor@tu-sofia.bg>

Dear Nikos,

Please, see this!!! The IEEE are bombing with spam!!! I forwarded this
message in school

My Faithful Regards,
Aida

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joanna Carpender <joanna.carpender@yahoo.com>
Date: 2011/3/28
Subject: See this email and made your own conclusions (Fake IEEE
Conferences again attacked the academic community)
To: Aida Bulucea <abulucea@gmail.com>

I got an emal (see below email from bowlleravner@gmail.com) about IEEE
Fake Conferences. I agree with them. How can I discriminate a honest
conference from a Fake IEEE Conference? Many Organizers pay money
receive the Name and the Logotype of IEEE and then they start bombing
us with much Spam. Spam, Spam and Spam from IEEE Sponsored or
Co-Sponsored conferences. Here are also some sites talking about this
unacceptable situation of the IEEE bogus events

http://xx.web.id/ieee-conference/fake-ieee-conferences-the-mafia-of-ieee-is-here.html

http://www.freak-search.com/en/thread/1154697/list_of_all_the_ieee
_junk_conferences_that_have_accepted_
in_their_proceedings_fake_papers._print_out_the_list_of_the_bogus_ieee_events,_
crappy_ieee_meetings,_fake_ieee_conferences.

http://crappyconference.blogspot.com/2011/02/site-of-junk-conferences-published.html

http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/

http://junkconferences.blogspot.com/

http://netdriver.blogspot.com/

http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/

http://scamieee.netfirms.com

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/56eb128bd48c3ba4?pli=1

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: bowlleravner@gmail.com <bowlleravner@gmail.com>
Date: 28 March 2011 02:36
Subject: again the discussion about IEEE fake conferences
To: aayesh@dmu.ac.uk, borhan@gmail.com, cupid@yahoo.com, faraji@gmail.com

We received a Comment today

We have just received a Comment from some Bessar! He agrees that many
IEEE conferences are fake. So, how can we discriminate a honest
conferences from fake ones, especially if the majority of IEEE
conferences are (in the opinion of Bessar) fake?
See the following comment and try to discover via Google FAKE IEEE
Conferences..................
The IEEE has hundreds of Fake Conferences. I think that it is better
to publish to societies like IASTED, IMACS than the IEEE. The IEEE
conferences are not serious especially if the organizers are guys like
Petre Dini or Nagib Callaos. So, if these idiots Petre Dini, Nagib
Callaos send you again CALL FOR PAPERS, even if they include the
logotype and the word IEEE, send an email to every body that this is a
call for a bogus (fake) conference. This is the problem with IEEE.
Some IEEE conferences are honest, but the majority are fake. Sorry,
but this is my opinion
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake-ieee-conferences.html

Fake IEEE Conferences. The absolute junk IEEE conference. Send your
SCIgen Papers and you will receive a letter of acceptance after 1
week. It is the extreme commercial business of IEEE.

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake-ieee-conferences.html

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March 8, 2011
NEW SPAM from SPRINGER VERLAG. While in all the WSEAS emails, the WSEAS has instructions of how to unsubscribe, Springer Verlag consider it as non-necessary. It is so obvious that sometimes I must underline it to my friends in our WSEAS conferences. WSEAS has never sent an invitation without instructions of unsubscription.

Dear Dr. MASTORAKIS,

To date the editorial office has not received a response from you.

Please advise as soon as possible if you have time to review this paper by the NULL in order to avoid delays
in the processing of this manuscript by accessing

http://zusa.edmgr.com/

and choose either accept or decline.

Your username is: NMASTORAKIS-739
Your password is: mastorakis33857

We are looking forward to receiving your reply.

Sincerely,

Ms. Nan Zhang
Managing Editor
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A

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March 2, 2011
Unbelievable SPAM from SPAM from IEEE.
Click on the following Image to see the Spam that I received from IEEE today

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March 1, 2011
SPAM from SPRINGER VERLAG and SPAM from IEEE.

I use to receive Spam from Springer Verlag. The following aggressive spam from Springer Verlag is very annoying. I do not work in the area of Natural Hazards. I do not have any relation with them. I do not work for Springer. I do work only for WSEAS.
Moreover, they do not have instructions for unsubscription.

From Natural Hazards <preetha.arulmohan@springer.com>
To Nikos Mastorakis <mastorakis4567@gmail.com>
Date 26 February 2011 11:35
Subject Registration message
Mailed-by editorialmanager.com
hide details 26 Feb (3 days ago)
Dear Prof. Nikos Mastorakis,

You have just been registered by Prof. Dr. Thomas Glade, Editor in Chief, as user for Natural Hazards.
Here is your private confidential password, which you need to access our site:
NMastorakis-937
mastorakis22486
Please save this information in a safe place.
You can change your password and other personal information at:
http://nhaz.edmgr.com//info_update.asp

With best regards,
Journals Editorial Office
Springer
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ DORDRECHT
The Netherlands

On the other hand my son Manolis Mastorakis, 9 years' old, received the following spam from IEEE. My son told me: "why do I received SPAM from IEEE, while my father does work for WSEAS. My father is a WSEAS Officer and I use to be bombed by IEEE Spam. This is ridiculous!"

See more details for the SPAM from IEEE here....

From CISEletter <ciseletter@gmail.com>

Date 3 December 2010 16:44
Subject IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Electronic Letter Issue 74, December 2010
Hide details 03/12/2010

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