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Why is it a scam?

• YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago
  Check out the page for the "International Conference on Bayesian Statistics for Machine Learning": https://waset.org/bayesian-statistics-for-machine-learning-conference-in-february-2020-in-lisbon https://waset.org/bayesian-statistics-for-machine-learning-c... What struck me was a section called "Special Journal Issues": Special Journal Issues ICBSML 2020 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Bayesian Statistics for Machine Learning. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. Of course there is no such thing as a "Special Journal Issue". There are special issues of particular journals, for example the Special Issue of the Machine Learning Journal on Learning and Reasoning (that I was looking for when I stumbled on this page). Every single conference on the site has the same text in this section... and in every other section with minor variations. There are more hints: 1) The names of the conferences seem to have been generated by prepending "International Conference" in front of legit conference names. 2) The "Call for papers" page is just a list of subject fields. 3) The "Selected papers" don't have anything to do with the actual conference subjects and are in fact scraped from other conference and journal sites. For example, in the "ICBSML" page there's a paper titled : Deep Learning Based Fall Detection Using Simplified Human Posture But if you click the link you see a pdf with this rubric on top: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Computer and Systems Engineering Vol:13, No:5, 2019 4) etc etc. It's a scam.