It is not obvious what the "European Society of Medicine" is. It might be a creation of the alleged predatory publisher Knowledge Enterprises, Inc. (KEI).
BEST COMMENTS RECEIVED
Financial complaints
- January 26, 2021: Seeing that COVID was going to keep the border closed ... , I wrote Dr. Osman and asked for my $849 USD back. Still asking. He asked me to present virtually and I'm not interested. Still waiting for my money.
- May 10, 2021: Unfortunately I paid $271.00. I then got an email saying that the bank had cancelled my payment and asking me to repay. ... I checked with the bank. There was no cancellation of payment. Unfortunately my 271 is gone. ... I should have been smarter.
- July 16, 2021: [I] contracted AMEX to dispute the registration charge. Within minutes, I got a response from AMEX: "We're writing to let you know that, as a result of our investigation, we've credited your account for $699.00, which will appear on your next statement." Clearly, AMEX is aware of the scam!
Inappropriate solicitations
- November 30, 2020: The first giveaway is that I AM NOT in radiology nor general medicine, then the misspelled email of “Dr Osman” but also that when trying the reply address what came up was not a European society of medicine email address but jm4y-kei@in.frontapp.com ...
- January 17, 2021: Reports an invitation soliciting "joining the Pathology session." His or her specialty? Speech-language pathology.
- February 5, 2021: The funniest thing is that he invited me to talk about a paper that I published 8 years ago!
- February 11, 2021: I work in a very specialized, non medical field .... Its such an inappropriate request to present at a general medical conference.
- April 25, 2021: "I am a veterinarian btw, so maybe he should do his homework before sending emails out like candy flying out of a pez dispenser." (In response to the request for a talk in the "core session" on physiology from the author of the "paper from a while ago [that] was particularly interesting for [Dr. Osman]: 'Canine Cognitive Dysfunction: Pathophysiology.'" )
- April 29, 2021: Reports an invitation from the eclectic Dr. Osman for a presentation in a "core session" on "Radiology" based on the "particularly interesting" paper on "In Trauma-Exposed Individuals" even though the author is "not in radiology" and the paper obviously "has a longer name than 'In Trauma-Exposed Individuals.'"
Oblivious responses
- January 2, 2021: A recipient of the email sent "Dr. Osman" an e-mail complaining about the "fishing technique for getting money with a fake meeting." Unperturbed, Dr. Osman replied, "I understand. Might a student or colleague be available instead?"
- February 8, 2021: "He refused to be deterred when I pointed out that my paper to which he referred so flatteringly had been published six years previously, and I had done no further work on the cohort since then - IMO, people attended conferences to learn new information, not dusty old stuff. Also, I could not see how my subject matter, even if updated, would fit into any of the conference sessions."
No responses
- February 1, 2021: I asked about [Dr. Osman's] own field of research and publications. Never got an answer. SILENCE
- July 16, 2021: I was contacted in April ... . I fell for it and registered. Then when I tried to access the conference website from a link within "Dr. Osman"'s original solicitation email, it got flagged by my university's cyber-traffic watchdog as a fraudulent site.[But a] conference site ... had a program with the session in which I was supposed to present, the title I had provided for my presentation, and even photo of me! Confused, I decided to contact the conference organizers through their legit-looking website to get clarification. I did it 3 times, and got no response.
No such place
- February 9, 2021: I happen to live in Geneva Switzerland. I decided that the easiest way to find out ... was to just go by rue le corbusier 12. [T]here was no sign, no way to ring and not even a letterbox of any european organisation of anything that could be found there.
- July 26, 2021: [C]hecking ... 12, Rue le Corbuisier, it seems the people at 'ESM' have misspelled the name of this famous architect, as no such street exists in Genève. But at 12, Rue Le-Corbusier (without the "i"), there are at least two ophtalmologists. Link: https://www.local.ch/fr/q/rue-le-corbusier-12-1208-geneve.
Incompetent conferences
- November 10, 2021: [The hotel] inform[ed] me that a congress is indeed scheduled by ESMED in their Waterfront hall, but they also received complaints from several (upcoming) hotel guests that it was badly organised and they believed it to be a scam.
- November 12, 2021: ... Dr Osman ... invited my contribution to a special section on colorectal cancer. I decided to participate only online and am watching on YouTube ... right now. [B]y far the worst meeting I have ever attended: From 5 parallel sessions only one is transmitted on YouTube; transmission is a simple camera located in the room and slides are not projected to the computer screen; the audio quality os terrible ... ; the communication of program changes did not work and there is no updated program available online; the special session on colorectal cancer does not exist, after all.
Other peculiarities
- January 20, 2021: It is strange that their web-page does not contain the history of this society and membership link does not work.
- September 7, 2021: I have discovered that the e-mails M. Osman sends inviting participation ... originate from Pakistan, either Karachi or Lahore.
- From: Organizing Committee [office@eusocietyofmedicine.org]
To: David H. Kaye
Sent: Mon, Nov 26, 2021, at 10:25 AM
Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"
I hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Genetics session?
Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly - From: Organizing Committee [office@eusocietyofmedicine.org]
To: David H. Kaye
Sent: Mon, Nov 22, 2021, at 11:25 AM
Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"
Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
Your genetics work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Genetics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'".
The assembly is August 4-6.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
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To: David H. Kaye
Sent: Wed, Aug 4, 2021, at 3:57 PM
Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"
I hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Genetics session?
M. Osman, M.D.
ESMED Congress 2021 -
From: Congress Committee [office@eu.esmedonline.org]
To:David H. Kaye
Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 12:02 PM
Subject: genetics and "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'"
Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding genetics work. I am organizing a session on Genetics to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Best Regards,
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From: M. Osman, M.D. [osman@med.esmed.org]
Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2021, at 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Would like to discuss The design of “the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation”
Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
Were you interested in discussing how your work might fit into the Genetics session?
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna, as well as online. I would be happy to send more details or answer any questions you may have.
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D. -
From: M. Osman, M.D. [osman@med.esmed.org]
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2021, at 10:50 AM
Sat, Mar 20, 2021
Subject: would like to discuss The design of “the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation”
Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Genetics work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "The design of "the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation"".
Genetics is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
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From: M. Osman, M.D. [osman@eu.europeansoicietyofmedicine.org]
Date: Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, 6:09:52 AM EST
Subject: The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'
Dear Dr. David H. Kaye,
I am hoping to talk to you about your genetics work. I enjoyed reading your article "The design of 'the first experimental study exploring DNA interpretation'" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in the Genetics session of our General Assembly next year.
I am on the organizing committee and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Yes, got exactly the same email (I deleted my details in order to share)
ReplyDelete...
The first giveaway is that I AM NOT in radiology nor general medicine, then the misspelled email of “Dr Osman” but also that when trying the reply address what came up was not a European society of medicine email address but jm4y-kei@in.frontapp.com which in many blogs is listed as a publisher of ‘predatory’ journals. But even if it wasn’t listed to have a reply address of that nature is suspect as well, so for me that was another warning sign this is a predatory invitation.
Chairs or committee members use their own, institutional emails, not others, to communicate to peers.
Quoting "M. Osman, M.D." :
> An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the conference
> website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
>
> Did you give further thought to the idea of joining the Physiology session?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> M. Osman, M.D.
>
> From: M. Osman, M.D.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
> To: xxxx@xxxxx.xxxx.gr
> Subject: xxxx responses of xxxxxxxx
> to xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Dear Dr. x xxxxxxxxx,
>
> I am hoping to talk to you about your radiology work. I enjoyed
> reading your article "xxx responses of xxxxxxxx to xxxxxxxx" and I was thinking that your work
> would be interesting to include in the Physiology session of our
> General Assembly next next year.
>
> I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on
> filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person
> and online.
>
>
> May we discuss this further?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> M. Osman, M.D.
> European Society of Medicine
> ESMED General Assembly
>
>
Same here. An email to my academic account Asking me to deliver Alexa.
DeleteWill not respond to this given your info, thank you!
DeleteFrom: Congress Committee
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 5:24 AM
To: J E Gosney
Subject: Rehabilitation and "Medical rehabilitation of spinal cord injury following earthquakes in rehabilitation resource-scarce settings: implications for disaster research"
Dear Dr. J E Gosney,
I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding your rehabilitation work. I am organizing a session on Rehabilitation to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "Medical rehabilitation of spinal cord injury following earthquakes in rehabilitation resource-scarce settings: implications for disaster research".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Best Regards,
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Got the same one
ReplyDeleteSame message with same "respond to" address
ReplyDelete« From: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
To: *****
Subject: "*****"
Dear Dr. A. Guitarte Vidaurre,
I am hoping to talk to you about your Cardiology work. I enjoyed reading your article "*****" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in our Cardiology conference next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the conference and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The conference is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine »
And then :
« Dear Dr. A. Guitarte Vidaurre,
I was also thinking that your work would fit well into the Cardiovascular Disease session of our general assembly next August.
Would you be open to discussing this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly »
I am glad you blogged about this suspect person/organisation. Today (26/04/21), I got a similar email from "M. Osman", and it sounded a but suspicious so I am glad I did a quick search for "ESMED spam" and your blog entry came up. Clearly they are still using the same trick in hopes of catching out the unwary.
Deletep.s. I looked at the email headers and it originates from an Amazon cloud services (Amazon SES). I recommend people just forward the email, with headers, to email-abuse@amazon.com
DeleteI received the same e-mail today. I reported it as "phishing".
DeleteThank you very much for this blog! I got approached by "Mr. Osman" as well, on a first glimpse the conference homepage looked ok, but I got suspicious when I did not find the session "Mr. Osman" was trying to get me into on the schedule. I gave the hotel (in Vienna, for this particular conference) a call and they did not know anything about it. I then searched for "ESMED" and your blog showed up...
DeleteI had one today and so glad I found this blog post! They wants me to speak about work from 6 years ago! Seemed dodgy but, you never know.Thanks all.
DeleteI was contacted in April 2021 by "M. Osman, M.D." with an invitation to present a paper in my legitimate area of research interest at ESMED 2021. I fell for it and registered. Then when I tried to access the conference website from a link within "Dr. Osman"'s original solicitation email, it got flagged by my university's cyber-traffic watchdog as a fraudulent site. However, when I searched for ESMED 2021 Congress on Google, a link to conference site that seemed quite legitimate popped up, and it even had a program with the session in which I was supposed to present, the title I had provided for my presentation, and even photo of me! Confused, I decided to contact the conference organizers through their legit-looking website to get clarification. I did it 3 times, and got no response. It's then that decided that it was a fake conference and contracted AMEX to dispute the registration charge. Within minutes, I got a response from AMEX: "We're writing to let you know that, as a result of our investigation, we've credited your account for $699.00, which will appear on your next statement." Clearly, AMEX is aware of the scam!
DeleteSimilar message but with a legitimate-looking email address.
ReplyDelete-----------------
From: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 8:00 PM
To: ****@****
Subject: "*****"?
Dear Dr. **** ***,
I am hoping to talk to you about your Psychiatry work. I enjoyed reading your article "*****" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in the Psychiatry session of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
I received a similar one today:
ReplyDelete------------------------------
Dear Dr. *******,
I am hoping to talk to you about your Psychiatry work. I enjoyed reading your article "*******************************" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in the Psychiatry session of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Another similar experience:
ReplyDeleteThe story goes on continuously (I have discovered this blog only today). Having not reacted to the request so far, I have received the reminder shown below.
In fact, the responsible seems to inquire about the scientific background and decides for the best-fitting session to offer, in my case for the Annual Conference on Immunology and Virology in Athens next year. In the respective programme online so far, see https://esmed.org/conferences/annual-conference-on-immunology-and-virology/ , keynote speakers seem to include real scientists, but it would take too much time to investigate whether or not they have agreed and represent key contributors.
Recent e-mail sent to me:
....
An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the conference website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining the XXX session?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the information, it confirms my thoughts, I also got the same email and I suspected it could be a predatory demand.
What is suspicious is mail from the real on is esmed.org and NOT europeansocietyofmedicine.org.
They should stop making researchers loose their time! Our time must be dedicated to research and not checking if a journal or conférences are just a scam...
Anyway, I wish you good fortune for your research
I received it too - same wording - Dec 11, 2020. Usually I can spot these scams easily because they are in a field completely unrelated to mine. This one almost fooled me, but I was suspicious because the paper it referred to is 12 years old.
ReplyDeleteI received this invitation from L. Smith, M.D. in a similar format:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Albert D Donnenberg,
I hope this message finds you well. I was in communication with you a couple months ago regarding a special theme issue on Lung Cancer disease which I am editing. The issue has been moved to April 2021 and I wanted to check if you might reconsider contributing an article to the issue.
May we discuss this?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
L. Smith, M.D.
DeleteSun 27/12/2020 16:35
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Dear Dr. T Cooksley,
I hope this message finds you well. I was in communication with you a couple months ago regarding a special theme issue on Endocrinology which I am editing in collaboration with the European Society of Medicine. The issue has been moved to May 2021 and I wanted to check if you might reconsider contributing an article to the issue.
May we discuss this?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
I received the same email. Also reviewed the website and found parts to be "dummied".
DeleteI just got one too. It is hard, as the website it links to is so legitimate? the from email address was the full society email. THe editorial board has high-impact scholars on it (the few I searched had 200+ pubs). They seem to be getting more sophisticated . . . but see this article trying to educate others on the predatory nature: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6625286/ also see this thread: http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2017/01/knowledge-enterprises-inc-kei-journals.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for saving med some time!!!
ReplyDeleteI received the same below
I am hoping to talk to you about your XXX work. I enjoyed reading your article "XXXXXX" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in the XXX session of our Internal Medicine conference next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the conference and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The conference is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
Global Conference on Internal Medicine
I received the same email as the others above....was sent by my gmail to the spam file....return address was europeansocietyofmedicine.org...but if you search their website for osman md, nothing comes up....be careful.
ReplyDeleteM. Osman, M.D.
Dec 20, 2020, 12:41 AM (1 day ago)
Why is this message in spam?
It is similar to messages that were identified as spam in the past.
Dear Dr. Laurie ......
I am hoping to talk to you about your research. I enjoyed reading your article "Surgical Resident Duty Hours" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in one of the sessions of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
Mto me. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
It's a fake meeting, all he wants you to do is to click on the register button, and pay for the registration fee.
ReplyDeleteI received a similar message and it does seem very dubious; for one thing, the paper cited is from many years
ReplyDeleteago.
Dear Dr. Ronald W Pies,
I am hoping to talk to you about your research. I enjoyed reading your article "Depression in the Primary Care Setting" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in one of the sessions of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
I received that email as well. The ESMED website is amateurish with circular links. There doesn't seem to be much any information on the web about this organization beyond their own sketchy web presence.
ReplyDeleteI also got the email as spam, though the representative institution caught my eyes. Thanks for everyone's sharing of this "predatory emails".
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Jun-Neng Roan,
We recently expanded the Surgery session of our general assembly next year and I wanted to talk with you about your work in this area. Your paper "xxxxxx" was quite interesting to me.
The assembly is August 20-21 in Berlin. I'm hoping you will consider joining the session; perhaps as a speaker.
May we discuss this more?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
I received exactly the same succesives messages from M. Osman beginning on Decmber 27th, and helped by the blog, I sent the following reply on January 1st 2021:
ReplyDeleteTo the attention of M. Osman, M.D.,
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
First, I did not understand your last mail, but when watching the ESMED agenda, I became quite suspicious about your intention of « fishing » me into a special session of the so-called ESMED General Assembly in August 2021. I was quite comforted in this suspicion by finding on the web an interesting blog relating many other identical experiences.
First, I wish to congratulate you for having such an open mind to enjoy reading articles so far from each other than those respectively dealing with Genetics, Radiology, Cardiology, Depression in the Primary Care Setting, Surgical Resident Duty Hours, Psychiatry and… Dictyostelium!
You have indeed engineered an original fishing technique for getting money with a fake meeting, but I have already lost too much time with your siren song, so please forget me for ever. In the mean time, I intend to promote the knowledge of your "money dark fishing method" to prevent other researchers from loosing much of their precious time with your detrimental actions.
Not only Sars Cov-2 is vicious, but at least we have now vaccins against the virus….
For those of you, who would get a second chance to participate to ESMED General Assembly, I received today the following answer:
I understand. Might a student or colleague be available instead?
It is also possible to present remotely.
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Following the previous comment:
ReplyDeleteI almost "bit the hook", and apparently it is not easy to get free from such "predators"!
as shown by this new mail received today on January 3, 2021 01:30, as a reply to one of my previous mails sent on Dec 30, 2020 16:09 PM
Dear Dr. xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Thank you for sharing this. I think it will make a nice addition to the conference and I look forward to meeting you.
There are few more slots available so it is recommended to submit your abstract and register not later than next month if you want to present.
The final title is needed at least 2 months prior to the conference. You may email the presentation when it is ready.
Would you like me to put your name down as a speaker?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Now, I wonder whether it might be sent by a "night working robot",not yet learned to correctly read the previous correspondence.
Got almost the same emails from this person. At the beginning he seemed so convincing. But after a few emails echanging, i got suspiscious because of all the Interest he had to paying fees. He almost didn't pay any attention to the work itself. Yet the worst thing is the invoice he sent to me for the payment, with a very suspect adress in USA. Really shameful act, especially in médical field. I am really deceived..
DeleteThe email: Dear Dr. A. Khedhiri,
We recently added a Nephrology session to our general assembly next year and I wanted to talk with you about your work in this area. Your paper "Les anévrysmes des fistules artérioveineuses en hémodialyse : étiologies et prise en charge" was quite interesting.
The assembly is August 20-21 next year in Berlin. I'm hoping you will consider joining the session; perhaps as a speaker. Your work would certainly be a valuable addition to the session.
May we discuss this more?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Email with the invoice for payment :
Thank you for your email. I have prepared an invoice for you here which includes the discount: https://invoice.authorize.net/Invoicing/UI/#/viewandpay/QOMeJtRRLE7Cmhvi99vkufxLCAN3MauKZmrpTQ6Na4Zye1KVFXBLOdmN7aqMa07r
The invoice is in USD but the system will accept payments from Euro cards.
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Please do you have any idea how we can denounce this man ?
got the same type of fishing mail . In 2021 M. Osman changed to L. Smith
ReplyDeleteDear Dr.xxxxxxxx,
I am helping to organize a theme issue on Trends in Gastroenterology to be published this year, and I was hoping to talk to you about your research in this area. I found your article "B-cell targeted therapy in patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis" quite interesting.
Would you be open to the idea of preparing an article to be featured in the theme issue?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
I got this one today
ReplyDeleteDear Dr.
I am helping to organize a theme issue on Trends in Physiology to be published this year, and I was hoping to talk to you about your research in this area. I found your article "The binding junctions in skeletal muscle" quite interesting.
Would you be open to the idea of preparing an article to be featured in the theme issue?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
I got messages from ESMED and decided to check out what this "Society" is... sure enough, exactly the same emails:
ReplyDeleteFrom: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Fri 2021-01-08 1:50 AM
To: xxxx
Subject: "New Insights Into the Treatment of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia"?
An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the conference website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining one of the sessions?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
From: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
To: xxxx
Subject: "New Insights Into the Treatment of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia"?
Dear Dr. xxxx
I am hoping to talk to you about your research. I enjoyed reading your article "New Insights Into the Treatment of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in one of the sessions of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
M.Osmman, M. D invited me for a presentation at Madrid in 2022, following a paper I published on COVID-19 he claimed that caught his attention online. Thank God for all these complains I should be well guided on about the whole scam. How can somebody coming to present a paper for an organization not be sponsored rather asked to register and so on. Efforts should be made to fish out this man he is a scam.
DeleteWednesday, December 30, 2020
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Julio xxxxxx,
I am hoping to talk to you about your research. I enjoyed reading your article "International regulations on labour health and safety applied to fishing and maritime transport sectors. Are maritime workers under-protected" and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in one of the sessions of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Sáb 09/01/2021 8:53
An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the conference website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining one of the sessions?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
When trying to pay for the "conference," the credit card merchant category code was linked back to KEI Journals.
ReplyDeleteAnytime an email merely has your name and the title of a recent publication you published, and nothing else to suggest it was composed for you personally, it is spam.
ReplyDeleteThis post was very useful. I received just this afternoon an email from the same M Osman MD. In the bin it goes!
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Xxxx Xxxx,
ReplyDeleteAn updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the general assembly website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining the Pathology session?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
SPOILER: My research is not in "PATHOLOGY" but rather, in "SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY".
Thank you for your input, everyone!
I have also received this message:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. ****,
We recently expanded the Pharmacology session of our general assembly this year and I wanted to talk with you about your work in this area. Your paper "xxxxxxxx" was quite interesting to me.
The assembly is August 20-21 in Berlin. I'm hoping you will consider joining the session; perhaps as a speaker.
May we discuss this more?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
I have even responded and asked a question but it looks that it is a predatory conference so I will refuse to participate. It is strange that their web-page does not contain the history of this society and membership link does not work.
Yes, I got one recently from L Smith-quoting an article that is almost 10 years old. Thanks for the updates.
ReplyDeleteYes, I got exactly the same E-mail, from Dr Osman on Dec 31 at 2:00 am , inviting me
ReplyDeleteSame following mail on january 9th. The email is apparently a real one, and after answering I got a link to the conference in Berlin, August 20-21. I havent gone much further. Tentatively accepted to talk, but will not pay any fees. If they are really interested by science, invited speakers should be invited FREE of charge....to be seen
REALLY surprised by this "fishing" technique.
The article cited was recent from 2019, so it looked OK.
Happy to have found this site as WARNING!!!
Dear Dr....,
I am hoping to talk to you about your research. I enjoyed reading your article "SUMOylation by SUMO2...." and I was thinking that your work would be interesting to include in one of the sessions of our General Assembly next next year.
I am on the organizing committee of the meeting and am working on filling a few remaining speaker slots. The meeting is both in person and online.
May we discuss this further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
MAIL du 9 janvier 23:30
An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the conference website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining one of the sessions?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
Dear Dr Osman,
Sorry for my delayed response, but I did not get to the agenda and program of the meeting. Could you please provide me with a valid Link?
When is the meeting taking place and where?
With my best regards,
AS, PhD
0h:20
Thank you so much for your reply. The conference will be held on August 20-21, 2021 in Berlin, and it is both in person and online. You are welcome to join the conference online. A detailed agenda is available on the webpage for the conference.
You can access the detail of the conference here: https://esmed.org/conferences/2021assembly/
Super glad to have found this. Got the same email from M. Osman MD on 1/20/21, with a follow up 1/25/21. The first one looked sketchy so it went to my spam, but I was thrown off by the second email enough to google it. Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately exactly the same experience here - identical email correspondence with Mr Osman MD...
ReplyDeleteThank you for reporting!
Great to have found this forum. Got same email from D Osman, go to the site though the link and it was quite well done. But I was suspicious and made a Google search which brought me here. Immediately deleted it. Thanks a lot to everyone who took the time to share.
ReplyDeleteI fell for the invite last spring and was looking forward to the conference as I wanted to visit Montreal. Seeing that COVID was going to keep the border closed at least into March, I wrote Dr. Osman and asked for my $849 USD back. Still asking. He asked me to present virtually and I'm not interested. Still waiting for my money. Anybody else able to get their money back from one of these?
ReplyDeleteDid you get your money back in the end?
DeleteI got one email last week from L Smith, praising my article from 2014. His name is there on the website, but in a very strange location, and without any background. I was about to start writing but then searched to find more about him and thankfully found this forum.
ReplyDeleteBut there seem to some genuine articles published in 'Medical Research Archives'? Does anyone know how?
Likewise, multiple emails regarding potential article which then morphed into contribution to Berlin Assembly. Weblink singularly unhelpful. Glad to have found this but not sure how to stop the emails (there is no 'unsubscribe' option at the bottom of either M Osman or L Smith's emails
ReplyDeleteSame, just got one too.
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. x,
An updated scientific agenda was recently posted on the Cardiology conference website and I wanted to make sure you were aware.
Did you give further thought to the idea of joining one of the sessions?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
________________________________________
From: M. Osman, M.D. M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021
To: x
Subject: "The Telehealth Ten: A Guide for a Patient-Assisted Virtual Physical Examination"
Dear Dr. x,
There are a few speaker slots remaining at the European Society of Medicine's Cardiology conference and I wanted to see if you would be interested in delivering a presentation, perhaps related to your work from a while ago "The Telehealth Ten: A Guide for a Patient-Assisted Virtual Physical Examination".
The presentation could be done either in person or remotely. The conference will include several keynote talks followup by ten sessions focusing on various Cardiology topics.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
Global Conference on Cardiology
This is repeatedly the same predatory business!!
ReplyDeleteAfter being approached by Mr Osman to present at the Berlin 2021 meeting, and discussing about NO CHARGES, which was not possible. Offered getting a hotel night free, which I declined. I asked about his own field of research and publications. Never got an answer.SILENCE...
But later a Mr Dr Smith contacted me about an article.....They dont stop trying.
Thanks for having this site to warn us!These predators should be sued and obliged to pay back .
Have the same experience as everyone else here.
ReplyDeletehe same experience.
ReplyDeleteThe funniest thing is that he invited me to talk about a paper that I published 8 years ago!
I got this fishing spam from M. Osman, M.D.
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. XXXX,
Your mental health work caught my attention recently and I thought that it would make an interesting addition to one of the sessions of our General Assembly this year. If you are willing we could discuss the possibility of you giving a talk, either at the assembly or online. The agenda is available at https://esmed.org/conferences/2021assembly/.
Would you be open to this?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly (Berlin/August 20-21)
I feel that I've joined a club here! I remember getting an e mail from Dr Osman in the late summer of last year inviting me to help fill a few remaining slots by presenting a paper at a conference on Cancer Research and Therapy, to be held in St. Petersburg next month. I was initially taken in, because the style was so different to the 'Fishing' e mails that I normally get. He refused to be deterred when I pointed out that my paper to which he referred so flatteringly had been published six years previously, and I had done no further work on the cohort since then - IMO, people attended conferences to learn new information, not dusty old stuff. Also, I could not see how my subject matter, even if updated, would fit into any of the conference sessions. Dr Osman politely withdrew. However, I'v just got an e mail from a Dr Smith...........
ReplyDeleteHi folks. Here is my personal account. It comes with a twist.
ReplyDeleteI also saw this email and received a second request. This made sense, i have been publishing quite a bit recently including on a number of hot-button topics. Problem was just that i had never heard of this organisation, and I felt that I should have if it is what it portends to be. The website looked pretty legit at first (it is a pretty .org address etc), but I did find it problematic that I could not find any info on previous conferences by the organisation, and also that the board of this european society was primarily made up of folks who work on another continent. That said there are a number of publications linked there, that are actually kind of ok, even though they are not on pubmed or similar. What is more a number of presentations that also look at least superficially legit (I did not go further than that) can also be found. If it is a fake it is a pretty darn good one, and I was seriously unsure. I was considering contacting them.
When you click on contact you can see that the official address of ESMED is Rue le Corbusier 12, in Geneva, Switzerland. Now an international organization of any kind, particularly medicine being seated in Geneva is no surprise at all. Geneva has plenty of them, some of them are real even if not talked about a lot and some of those again have decent money etc. I know that, because... well.... I happen to live in Geneva Switzerland. I decided that the easiest way to find out for me personally was to just go by rue le corbusier 12. Suffice it to say, that there was no sign, no way to ring and not even a letterbox of any european organisation of anything that could be found there. If there were a way to do so here, I would upload the picture I took to document this.
I was suspicious that this address was not a real place of business for the ESMED, and you confirmed it, in person. Thank you! I can't believe that any scientist would fall victim to this scam. After all, we are trained to be skeptical.
DeleteIt's a "digital mailbox" service for people who want a more prestigious or plausible address.
Deletehttps://www.anytimemailbox.com/l/switzerland/geneva
# I would like to invite you as one of the speakers...
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
Thanks for the blog and the comments.
I was more than suspiscious.
It's obviously a trick
Its a scam - Just got the same invite, this time for a conference in Vienna. I work in a very specialized, non medical field, no one in their right mind would be interested in my stuff unless they were also working in the same area, and we all know each other! Its such an inappropriate request to present at a general medical conference. So glad this thread comes up high in the google search return
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI just received the same invitation for the Vienna event (see below)
It is definitely predatory: Beallslist.net lists both their journal (Medical Research Archives) as well as the publisher (KEI) as predatory. Enough said.
Quote
Dear xxxxxxxxxx,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your cardiology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "xxxxxxx".
Cardiology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
Unquote
I just got the same email from both "M Osman" and "L. Smith".
ReplyDeleteCan't believe people have schemes for fi$hing researchers!
Be aware! I noticed there was a typing error in the orientation given to receive a refund... that is why I got suspicious. Can't these people be notified by competent organs? I am in South America so I believe I could not place a formal complain....
Dear Dr. xxxxxxx:
Thank you for your email. I spoke with our committee and they have approved a 10% discount on the registration fee.
Yes there are travel funds available to speakers. I have gone ahead and added your name to the waiting list. Please find more information about the process below.
How to obtain travel funds
Eligible travel expenses include air and ground transportation. Fees for visas are not eligible. Travel receipts may be submitted in PDF or JPG format tooffice@europeansocietyofmedicine.org no later than one week following the conference. There is a limit of $1,200 per person.
The Register tab of the site shows how many hotel nights are included with each package. The hotel name and address are on the Travel & hotels tab. Please let me know which registration packages best suits your needs so as we can apply the discount for you.
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Same here.
ReplyDeleteI feel that I've joined a club! At first I looked up for the conference website and for the society it self. It looked legit. So I wrote back. This email exchange went back and forth for a while.
Finally, I registered my self in the conference, but I didn't pay. Something felt of.
But, since I clicked that registre the emails stopped and my PC started to become slower.
Does anyone knows or is able to investigate if there is some kind of randsomeware or other malaware sent/installed by clicking the register button?
I am using both malawarebites and bitdefender and noone is able to detect anything.
Thanks for your warning! Got it too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the warning. I registered then saw that a registration fee was required and searched the web and found this posting.
ReplyDeleteMy computer has not slowed down.
ReplyDeleteSame here too. It looks suspecious, so I checked it out. This blog very useful. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFrom: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021
Subject: "Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on cognitive effects of Bacopa monnieri extract"
Dear xxx,
We recently expanded the Pharmacology session of our general assembly this year and I wanted to talk with you about your work in this area. Your paper "Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on cognitive effects of Bacopa monnieri extract" was quite interesting to me.
The assembly is August 20-21 in Berlin. I'm hoping you will consider joining the session; perhaps as a speaker.
May we discuss this more?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly
Same as everybody in here. Got an email from this fake M. Osman, M.D. Thank to this blog organizer which is making a great work advising all folks who are receiving this kind of fishing e-mail. Wish those guys were prosecuted and those who lost money were refunded. Be aware, fellows!
ReplyDeleteWe are on it ... reported it to police in Vienna, providing also evidence (= laptop of "Dr. Osman")
DeleteEarlier commenters have noted that the Keynote Speakers and program topics seem legitimate. Unfortunately the business methods of Mr Dylan Fazel (the guy behind KEI and probably behind ESMED and "M Osman") include copy-pasting presentations from other conferences (real ones), and replacing the Conference Program at the last minute with something sad and scaled-down.
ReplyDeletehttp://eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2020/03/i-light-heartedly-gave-list-of-names.html
For instance, the currently highlighted presentation for the 2021 ESMED General Assembly is "Small dense LDL cholesterol is the most atherogenic lipoprotein parameter in the Framingham Offspring study" (by Dr. Ernst Schaefer), https://esmedgeneralassembly.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/european-society-of-medicine-small-dense-ldl-cholesterol-is-the-most-atherogenic-lipoprotein-parameter-in-the-framingham-offspring-study/
ReplyDeleteSounds good, except it's plagiarised from "Small Dense Low‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is the Most Atherogenic Lipoprotein Parameter in the Prospective Framingham Offspring Study" - Ikezaki et al (2021), https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.019140
It gets better! If I may stray slightly to the more general topic of Dylan Fazel scams, I was looking up more details on Esmed.org and KEI, which led me here:
ReplyDeletehttps://domainbigdata.com/91.121.0.101
There I was informed that "Websites using this ip : 91.121.0.101" include the following (Esmed.org and europeansocietyofmedicine.org are also hosted on that IP, but haven't shown up yet on the Domainbigdata site)...
spg.ltd
aoamj.org
copernicus.ltd
archivesofpsychology.org
ke-i.org
internalmedicinereview.org
copernicuspublishing.com
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"SPG.ltd" is a "Science Publishing Group", but not the parasitical publisher you have already covered -- it's an attempt by Fazel to spoof the existing SPG.
There are a few SPG scamferences as well, but only from 2019, so I guess this particular fraud was unsuccessful so Fazel is no longer pursuing it.
https://conferences.spg.ltd/index.php/upcoming-conference-list/
Again, "copernicuspublishing.com/" is his attempt to piggyback on the existing uses of "Copernicus" (by a German academic publisher and by a Polish journal-indexing service). I see that you encountered that site a few years ago - in retrospect, do you see Dylan Fazel's familiar modus operandi?
"copernicus.ltd" seems to be an attempt to spoof a general journal portal, promising access to other publishers, but only if you sign up and provide enough personal information.
I wrote a blog-post, inspired by the experiences of the commenters here.
ReplyDeletehttps://eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2021/03/in-another-chance-to-use-nothing-of.html
Thanks. Got the email inviting me to Vienna, thought at first it is a spam (vide mentioning the publication title so typical for spam), then thought it may be legit, tried to find something about ESM and by this I found this blog. Screw them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up. Also received an email for the Vienna meeting. SPAM! Have a nice day.
ReplyDeleteThe same here. They are keeping the bad work.
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Heba A Abdelkader,
I am hoping we can discuss your Pathology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "Unilateral facial papules and plaques".
Pathology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
I got the same email. I thought it serious at first, but when the money was brought up, a scam came up. My advice to you is not to look at your spam e-mails.
ReplyDeleteThis "Osman" character is recruiting aggressively, with just enough substance that it could be something more than predatory publisher/conference organizer. My email looked different, seemed somewhat targetd. I haven't heard of ESMED before, so I went to the website, which was questionable, but not entirely problematic. Enough to do more searches and get to this discussion. Seeing the other emails, it is clear that this is a predatory publisher/conference organizer. Add him to the spam list.
ReplyDeleteYup, predatory.
ReplyDelete"Dear Dr. XX,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Genetics work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "XXXX".
Genetics is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
"
Thank you all for your comments - I just received a similar email to the above, the only difference being that the "core session" was Urology. I suspected that this was predatory; it is reassuring to have this confirmation that my suspicion was not misplaced!
ReplyDeleteI'm a respiratory physician in Asia. I have the same problems above. How did you all cope with them? I want to reimburse the fee.
ReplyDeleteThey are still at it! --->
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. AD,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Pharmacology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "The effect of a clinically effective and non-effective dose of lorazepam on 7.5% CO2-induced anxiety".
Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
Similar email citing a very old article. They are now using a new pseudonym: L. Smith MD
ReplyDeleteSimilar email referencing very old paper. They are using L. Smith MD instead of M Osman MD
ReplyDeleteThey are indeed still at it:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. KC,
Were you interested in discussing how your work might fit into the Pharmacology session?
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna, as well as online. I would be happy to send more details or answer any questions you may have.
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
________________________________________
From: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Dear Dr. KC,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Pharmacology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me.
Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
________________________________________
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I'm so glad I found this blog! Is the actual conference website a scam or just the emails from M Osman or L Smith? I reported the scam email to the conference website before I saw this.
ReplyDeleteSame email format for me (see paste below). It was especially weird, because I did reply back, and someone answered me. Then, I got another email along the lines of the original request, as if we hadn't replied before, and I became very suspicious. So glad that I Googled everything and found this blog!
ReplyDeleteM. Osman, M.D.
Mon, Apr 19, 11:23 PM (6 days ago)
to me
Dear Dr.,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your public health work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "
Epidemiology & Public Health is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
M. Osman, M.D.
ReplyDeleteSun 4/25/2021 7:52 AM
Dear Dr. Curtis Wells Dewey,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Physiology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "Canine Cognitive Dysfunction: Pathophysiology".
Physiology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
I just got one of these today. It looked totally fake. I get a lot of these. I think I should reply and ask for a speaking fee up front and also invite him to my fictitious conference in Bora Bora. I am a veterinarian btw, so maybe he should do his homework before sending emails out like candy flying out of a pez dispenser.
I got the same email today. Apparently fake. I can tell from several emails of that sort, also sometimes from journals, that this is fake when they refer to a paper by me without a jot of content why that is interesting for them. They just look up some titles.
ReplyDeleteI replied that my colleague, "Dr. Frankenstein," was suspicious, but that I was interested in presenting some new work I was doing in monsterism. Haven't heard back for some reason.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Just got a rather off-topic request based on a Methods paper for this conference. One of the less obvious predatory conferences, but made me suspicious enough to check. The other comments here confirmed my hunch that this was predatory. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteReceived the following mail:
ReplyDeleteOn 18/04/2021 02:39, M. Osman, M.D. wrote:
Dear Dr. XXX,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Radiology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: ".... (note: this is a paper on fundamental quantum physics!)..... ".
Radiology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
At this point, it was already clear to me this is predatory event. I responded:
On Apr 19, 2021 06:39 AM, XXX wrote:
Dear M. Osman,
You write you read my paper. So, I' am curious to learn what makes you think it has anything to do with radiology and/or medicine.
Sincerely,
XXX
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Undetered, Osman responded this:
On 26/04/2021 19:47, M. Osman, M.D. wrote:
>
>
>
> I hope all is well. Are you still interested in joining the conference?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> M. Osman, M.D.
>
> European Society of Medicine
>
> ESMED Congress 2021
I eventually replied by suggesting further reading and sent a link to this web page!
Dr Osman strikes again! I appreciate all of you who have reported this here. I googled the ESMED when I received the email since, as others have pointed out,it's atypical for a fishing email. I found a facebook page for them (https://www.facebook.com/esmedgeneralassembly/), a website (https://esmed.org/), and then this blog. Thanks to you all for making it clear that this is just a slightly higher caliber predatory conference.
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Torrey A Creed,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Psychology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "Beyond the Label: Relationship Between Community Therapists' Self-Report of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Orientation and Observed Skills".
Psychology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
"I am hoping we can have a discussion about your Radiology work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "In Trauma-Exposed Individuals".
ReplyDeleteRadiology is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation."
I am not in radiology. And the paper has a longer name than "In Trauma-Exposed Individuals" :D
I just got one! ....
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. (no name listed in email)
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your research. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "Do orbital floor plates adequately protect against serious secondary injury?".
I was thinking that something related to this would fit well into the agenda I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. Perhaps you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
Ive replied, asking if my flight and travel will be paid for....awaiting reply.
If not I may just send him this webpage
"I am hoping we can have a discussion about your research. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "To what extent can evaluation frameworks help NGOs to address health inequalities caused by social exclusion?".
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that something related to this would fit well into the agenda I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. Perhaps you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation."
That wasn't a bad article, but very niche; it only has four citations, two of which were made by my co-author. Since that article I have done a lot of work with much wider relevance which I am regularly asked to keynote or workshop from. Nobody ever expresses interest in that article so I figured the email was dodgy. Glad to find confirmation here, and pleased to be an orc - a member of the Osman Refusers' Club!
Same situation for me with Dr Osman: asking for presentation of an old research, no consistency with the conference's scope, fuzzy e-mail responses, etc. They clearely want us to pay 700 to 900$ for a fake publication...
ReplyDeleteI had a look on the "Medical Research Archives" journal, which is linked to ESMED: articles are not referenced in PUBMED and generally look like duplicates of anterior works (cf "The renoprotective effects of soy protein in the aging kidney" - https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2065 - and have a look on first author's publications on pubmed...)
=> have you tried to contact Dr Steven Lindheim (the first Editorial manager) to tell us more about ESMED ? He seems to be active at the Wright State University (https://people.wright.edu/steven.lindheim) ?
Regards
No, but I looked into Medical Research Archives a little and posted the results in the Flaky Academic Journals blog at http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2017/01/knowledge-enterprises-inc-kei-journals.html
DeleteAnd ESMED Strikes again, no more Mr. Osman but L Smith:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. XXXXX,
One of your articles caught my interest recently and I thought I might get in contact with you. It was your article "XXXXXX". I am serving as the editor of a special issue on Advancements in Epidemiology & Public Health and I am wondering if you would be interested in composing something to be included in the issue.
Might this be possible?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 101668511
Thank you for your comments, that reaffirms my vague doubts. I got the same invitation, which on first view sounds interesting:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. ,
I am hoping we can have a discussion about your emergency medicine work. Your paper from a while ago was particularly interesting for me: "Syncope--algorithms for emergency medicine".
Emergency Medicine is one of the core sessions I am planning for The European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November. I was thinking that your work would fit well into the session and that you might consider coming to Vienna to give a talk. Alternatively it could be an online presentation.
Can we discuss this idea?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
After reading your same experiences, I will abstain from any furhter effort.
Fred
I also received the same email. I did do a search but did not do find this blog until today. My emails started earlier this year though. Unfortunately I paid $271.00. I then got an email saying that the bank had cancelled my payment and asking me to repay. Luckily I became suspicious and I checked with the bank. There was no cancellation of payment. Unfortunately my 271 is gone. The scary thing is that this was very professionally done. These people take a lot of time to set up a website and send these emails. I should have been smarter.
ReplyDeleteI just got one, too!
ReplyDeleteI deleted this letter after reading it because: a) not in my area of study (something similar); b) there is no reference or link to the congress; c) the appearance of e-mail is "too simple" to be true; Fortunately, I know from my own experience what real congress invitations look like.
Dear Dr. .....,
I wanted to see if you would be interested in participating in a workshop which will be held within the Virology session on the 3rd day of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November in Vienna (there is also an online option). The workshop will focus on a variety of topics from tumor virology to PCR testing. I saw that you have been active in this field and would probably find the session interesting.
Might you be interested in joining the session?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
I recently received a very similar email from M Osman MD - not as obvious as the usual conference invite spam but I didn't respond. Then I got a phonecall from a withheld number asking if I was interested in presenting and wanting to contact me by Whatsapp.
ReplyDeleteDear Osman,
ReplyDeleteSorry, I am not interested in predatory events (http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2020/11/european-society-of-medicine-esmed.html). And by the way, I have never had any activity whatsoever in Radiology. So please, remove my name, email, and all related data from all of your listings (GDPR https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/my-rights/can-i-ask-company-delete-my-personal-data_en).
Sincerely,
XXX
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On 24/06/2021 14:31, Congress Committee wrote:
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> Dear Dr. XXX,
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> I am organizing a workshop which will be a part of the Radiology session at our annual congress this November 11-13 and I wanted to see if you might be interested in participating. The congress is held in Vienna Austria as well as online. The workshop will cover a variety of subjects such as COVID-19 imaging and artificial intelligence. I know that you have been active in this field and would probably find the session interesting.
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> May I send over more details?
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> Best Regards,
> M. Osman, MD
> European Society of Medicine
Stupid mail received today:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. [my name]
I wanted to ask if you would be interested in participating in a workshop which will be held within the Pharmacology session on the 3rd day of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November in Vienna (there is also a virtual attendance option). The workshop will focus on a variety of topics from drug delivery to COVID-19. I saw that you have been active in the field and would probably find the session interesting.
May I send you more details?
Best Regards,
M Osman, M.D.
Look at what I got today!
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. xxx,
I am organizing a workshop which will be a part of the COVID-19 session at our annual congress this November 11-13 and I wanted to see if you might be interested in participating. The congress is held in Vienna Austria as well as online. The workshop will cover a variety of subjects such as vaccination and imaging. I know that you have been active in this field and would probably find the session interesting.
May I send over more details?
Best Regards,
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
I agree with the previous posts. At first glance it looks legit, but most likely predatory...
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. ...,
I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding your Neurology work. I am organizing a session on Neurology & Neuroscience to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosly related to your paper "Neurobiological substrates of persistent working memory deficits and cocaine-seeking in the prelimbic cortex of rats with a history of extended access to cocaine self-administration".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
BIG SCAM ALERT:
ReplyDelete"M. Osman, M.D., European Society of Medicine, ESMED Congress 2021"
= TOTAL FAKE! STAY AWAY! REPORT TO IT SECURITY!
The scam strategy:
- "Dr. Osman" invites you to a conference.
- "Dr. Osman" ask you to register and pay a registration fee $!
- The conference will never occur.
- The monyey is lost!
- ATTENTION: "Dr. Osman" might change his name and invent new fake conferences!!!
Great to have this blog to warn people.
I got a fake invite related to a paper I published 8 years ago, which would not have interested any European audience as it was about the best cited papers in an Indian journal for which I was associate editor at that time. It was not about any scientific innovation or research, which would have interested this M. Osman
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Dheeraj Shah,
I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding your Pediatrics work. I am organizing a session on Pediatric Medicine to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "Citation classics from Indian pediatrics".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Best Regards,
M. Osman
I received the following email from a reader:
ReplyDeleteFrom: XXX Ph.D.
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 11:53 AM
To: David Kaye
Subject: FW: [EXTERNAL] oncology and talking about "Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by 2-deoxyglucose but not glucose starvation activates AMPK through CaMKK? leading to autophagy"
Dear Mr. Kaye,
I saw your blog in ref to the fraudulent M.Osman emails.
I thought you might enjoy my latest response (see below).
I wonder if there is a way to stop him? An agency involved with tracking down these types of swindlers.
Regardless, thank you for your efforts.
XXX, PhD
From: "XXX
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 8:46 AM
To: "M. Osman, M.D."
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] oncology and talking about "Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by 2-deoxyglucose but not glucose starvation activates AMPK through CaMKK? leading to autophagy"
Dear M. Osman
The internet is full of references that this is fraud which has been reported.
I have been told that the email address you are operating from can be traced.
Several medical researchers have been swindled out of money and they are trying to make sure you are caught.
From: "M. Osman, M.D."
Reply-To: "M. Osman, M.D."
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:33 AM
To: XXX
Cc: "office@eu.esmedonline.org"
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] oncology and talking about "Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by 2-deoxyglucose but not glucose starvation activates AMPK through CaMKK? leading to autophagy"
Dear Dr. XXX,
Thank you so much for your reply. The conference will be both in person and online for those who cannot travel. You are welcome to join the conference online. For an online presentation the talk can be pre-recorded if needed. If you are available you can give it live.
The presentation is typically around 20-35 minutes. More details about the conference are available via the link in my signature below.
Could I ask for more details regarding the presentation you had in mind?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED Congress 2021
On Jul 15, 2021 01:00 AM, XXX wrote:
Hi Dr M,
Please tell me more.
From: Congress Committee
Reply-To: Congress Committee
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 5:34 PM
To: XXX
Subject: [EXTERNAL] oncology and talking about "Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by 2-deoxyglucose but not glucose starvation activates AMPK through CaMKK? leading to autophagy"
Dear Dr. XXX,
I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding your Oncology work. I am organizing a session on Oncology to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by 2-deoxyglucose but not glucose starvation activates AMPK through CaMKK? leading to autophagy".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Best Regards,
Please think of the environment before printing this email. This message may contain confidential and/or copyright material. This message is a B2B communication. If you have received this message by error or wish to remove your data from the system please reply or write to Rue le Corbuisier#12, 1208 Geneva Switzerland. Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
Same email here. About a case report I wrote 10 years ago, and I think it would be clear to anyone who had done a basic check that this is not my field of expertise nor have I published anything in this area since.
ReplyDelete---
I am hoping to get in contact with you regarding your Pneumonia work. I am organizing a session on Pneumonia to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "Round pneumonia".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. It is also possible to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Same mail again,
ReplyDelete"I was hoping to get in contact with you regarding your Pharmacology work. I am organizing a session on Pharmacology to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "XXX". The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. There is also an option to participate virtually".
With this text at the end: "If you have received this message by error or wish to remove your data from the system please reply or write to Rue le Corbuisier#12, 1208 Geneva Switzerland".
So, checking what goes on at 12, Rue le Corbuisier, it seems the people at "ESM" have misspelled the name of this famous architect, as no such street exists in Genève. But at 12, Rue Le-Corbusier (without the "i"), there are at least two ophtalmologists... Link: https://www.local.ch/fr/q/rue-le-corbusier-12-1208-geneve
I'm so grateful for this website and all the comments that prevented me from beliving in this ESMED crap. Now I know what my answer would be, and I'm going to be bloody honest with M. Osman, M.D.
ReplyDeleteI got the same email
ReplyDeleteDear xxxxxx,
I am hoping to get in contact with you regarding your oxidative stress work. I am organizing a session on Oxidative Stress to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "xxxxxxxx".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. It is also possible to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D
I got the same email
ReplyDeleteDear xxxxxx,
I am hoping to get in contact with you regarding your oxidative stress work. I am organizing a session on Oxidative Stress to be part of the European Society of Medicine's annual congress this November and I thought that your work could fit well into the session, perhaps as a presentation loosely related to your paper "xxxxxxxx".
The congress is November 11-13 in Vienna Austria. It is also possible to participate virtually.
May we discuss this idea further?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D
This group is playing a long game, and did a fine job making things appear legit - from a slick website, to official letter of invitation, to offering up to $1200 in travel reimbursement for speakers (which of course got no reply). Here is the email thread to demonstrate:
ReplyDelete________________________________________
Sent: Monday, August 9, 2021 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: ESMed General Assembly in Berlin
Hello –
After numerous unanswered emails and web inquiries to you, the European Society of Medicine (ESMed), and the ESMed 2021 General Assembly conference organizers, and further noting that the conference web site does not list a specific conference location, hotel, or agenda, I have come to the conclusion that this conference does not exist. Of course, I will no longer be attending. I am very disappointed that this conference and other ESMed conferences appear to be a scam. This is reinforced by other reports online specific to ESMed.
Accordingly, please immediately return the conference registration fees of $949.00 that were paid on 20 Jan, 2021 as well as the $1711.65 airline fees that were paid on 21 July, 2021. (Receipts attached.) I will expect these refunds by the close of business tomorrow, 10 Aug, 2021.
I have reported these fraudulent charges to American Express, and will be exploring additional options with our hospital and University legal teams.
________________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 1:10 PM
To: osman@europeansocietyofmedicine.org
Subject: ESMed General Assembly in Berlin
Hello Dr. Osman -
I'm looking forward to the conference in Berlin later this month, but I am concerned that I have not gotten any confirmation of conference details or hotel. I've sent emails to the organizers via the conference web site, and to the office at European Society of Medicine (as you suggested below), but I've not gotten any replies.
Could you please connect me with someone who can help provide this information so we can finish our travel plans? Thanks very much!
________________________________________
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 5:17 PM
To: office@europeansocietyofmedicine.org
Subject: Travel funds for ESMed General Assembly in Berlin
Hello – I’ll be presenting at the ESMed General Assembly in Berlin next month (see attached and below) and wanted to inquire about travel funds. I’ve already bought airline tickets (receipt also attached). Is there a specific person that I should contact there to obtain travel funds?
Also – I’ve not yet received hotel information about the conference, or a schedule of presentations. Can you (or they) provide details? (My registration included 2 nights at the hotel, but I don’t know which hotel it is, and will need to specify which nights I’ll be there. Would also be helpful to know when my presentation is scheduled.)
Thanks very much, and I’m looking forward to the conference.
________________________________________
From: M. Osman, M.D.
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 9:16 PM
Thank you for registering for the conference. Please find in the Invitation letter attached. I look forward to seeing your presentation. Let me know if I can help in any way.
Yes there are travel funds available to speakers. I have gone ahead and added your name to the waiting list. Please find more information about the process below.
How to obtain travel funds
Eligible travel expenses include air and ground transportation. Fees for visas are not eligible. Travel receipts may be submitted in PDF or JPG format to office@europeansociety of medicine.org no later than one week following the conference. There is a limit of $1,200 per person.
Will you be needing an invoice for the registration fee or will you pay online?
Best Regards,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly [esmed.org]
omg. Glad I found this blogpost! Thank you to the original post! I stopped at the point paying registration fees because that was fishy for an invited speaker. Apparently now fishing for August 2022 in Madrid Spain.
ReplyDeleteThis individual has been emailing me asking to present at a conference in Madrid in 2022. Pretty slick con. Whats the best way to make sure these fuckers get caught?
ReplyDeleteM. Osman, M.D. emailed me inviting me to a conference in Madrid. He said: "Your Neurology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you" although I don't work in Neurology at all.
ReplyDeleteGreat site here. I have been receiving messages from this individual and organization inviting me to speak about something published about a decade ago.
ReplyDeleteMy message today:
ReplyDeleteYour Osteoarthritis work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Osteoarthritis is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "XXXXXX".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
I think maybe we can't... Thanks for this website I will be blocking this email address.
The same exact thing just happened to me. "Dr M. Osman" contacted me to present a research that I recently published in dermatogy. He wanted me to present at the conference in Madrid Aug 4-6, 2022. While this email was more "literate" than other scam emails of that sort, its content still raised suspicion, as I receive scam emails about a fake conferences at least once a week, if not more often. It's exhausting.
ReplyDeleteI checked their (ESMED) website and it looked better than the other scam websites I've seen thus far. However, it still appeared less-than-optimal visually compared to actual conference websited. And then I googled ESMED and found this blog. Boy oh boy! Thank you to person/people who made it! You did a wonderful job and a service to all the researchers around the world who received or will receive this scam email.
Frankly, I am disgusted. It is such a sad, sad way to get money. "Dr M.Osman" should go volunteer to get his manners straightened.
The content of "Dr.Osman's" email that I received today is worded as follows:
Dear Dr......,
Your Dermatitis work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Dermatitis is one of the core topics of the Dermatology session I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Factors associated with improvement of quality of life among parents of children with atopic dermatitis: 1-year prospective cohort study".
The assembly is on August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
What about the featured key note speakers of these “conferences”? Are they aware of this scam?
ReplyDeleteNo, usually they are not aware of this and only find out upon arrival at the venue of the sub-par quality of the conference. As one participant put it: "Here are some rockstar scientists, but everything else about ESMED is fake." Many of the scientist found out that they didn't have a hotel room booked, although they paid ESMED to do so
DeleteThis mister Osman - from af fake address and a fake organisation simply scans papers and as I have published so many he and his folks invite me to the same meeting but to give lectures on topics without any scientific relation - and invite to several ‘General Assemblies’ within the same week - of cause people who have been in the scientific field for a long time do not participate in such unspecific meeting but young people publishing their first paper may be flattered by an ‘invitation’ where of cause ‘Osman’ will charge you a high fee for your participating - simply put his name into your spam filter. Lars Arendt-Nielsen, prof, dr med, phd
ReplyDeleteThank you, colleagues!!! I'll send Dr. Osman's letter to Spam.
ReplyDeleteDr. Andrey Markov
I received the same email today from Dr Osman asking me to present on research done 10 years ago. What a scam!!
ReplyDeleteMr. Osman continues to request "registration payments" and may collect credit card information as well. Consider to send an alarm to your University.
ReplyDeleteFrom the wording in the email I got from this Osman guy, I knew this was a scam - The email had many mistakes and a preposterous proposition to present my work in a totally unrelated area.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the comments - it looks like its a long running scam - hope someone beats the shit out of this Osman or whoever in real life.
Having done a little investigation of my own, I have discovered that the e-mails M. Osman sends inviting participation in European Society of Medicine (ESMED), originate from Pakistan, either Karachi or Lahore.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your warnings! I got very suspicious when, yesterday, I received a request of registration full payment after being invited as a speaker, which is really unusual.
ReplyDeleteMails were very similar to those reported above.
Thanks.
Thank you all for sharing. I just received the email invitation, which I found suspicious for a few reasons, many of which have already been pointed out. The message is only clumsily personalized, clearly it's a fishing net in retrospect. No serious professional would sign off by not providing their first name in full. Also his/her name does not appear anywhere in the organization website. The website looks professional on the surface but then all the conferences featured have poor agendas and almost no speaker. The photos are fake (from unrelated events). Looks like it was quickly put together to address the comments made on this page.
ReplyDeleteAfter receiving repeating E-mails from M. Osman, M.D.
ReplyDeleteEuropean Society of Medicine (m.osman@europeanmedicine.org) solliciting my contribution I called the Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront Hotel, the venue of the next ESMED 2021 Congress in Vienna (November 11-13, 2021).
I was informed by the hotel that they there is no congress or conference at this time.
I also found that the ESMED Journal "Medical Res Archives" is on the Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory journals (publisher KEI Journals).
Contacted them today, and they did inform me that a congress is indeed scheduled by ESMED in their Waterfront hall, but they also received complaints from several (upcoming) hotel guests that it was badly organised and they believed it to be a scam. As the hotel has nothing to do with ESMED themselves, they weren't able to inform me of anything beyond that.
DeleteHi everyone,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately i got scammed by this. I got excited about presenting my paper at an international event. I paid the complete amount of 261 GBP for the online presentation.
I realised I was being scammed only after a couple of months after registering for their "online" conference in Vienna. My colleagues alerted me that they had received emails from Osman to present their research in the same event.
The event was also not specialised in any one particular field. Only when these things started to bug me did I google about the seminar which in retrospect should have been the first thing I should have done.
After googling I discovered this blog page and then my doubts were realised that I did fall victim to a scam.
I felt terrible as I felt I would know if I was being scammed.
I contacted my bank who have said they will investigate the matter for a refund. They have blocked my credit card as these scammers already have my details.
I hope these criminals get caught and are penalised.
If you are the scammer who is doing this hope you are feeling very proud of yourself.
Thank you for this blog! I hope someone will consolidate all these testimonials and create more blogs or maybe a write up that will be posted to flag all young researchers out there. I almost fell for it since we engaged already in a communication, good thing, I consulted a colleague and she reminded me of predatory conferences. I guess, we should conclude by now, that invited speakers must be free of charge of all expenses in a conference. This Dr. Osman is very smart, I was able to explore the website of ESMED, and I think it is completely FAKE. I saw his name as the Chair of the Scientific Committee Program, and what baffles me is where he get those names listed on the event. And if European Society does exist, I think we should inform the coordinators of the true or original congress, because these people are using the name of their society for their personal gain. Thank you to all who shares their experiences. I normally received scam emails, however, the email of Dr. Osman is not flagged down by my email, that's why we were able to communicate before I become suspicious because he started asking me to register right away.
ReplyDeleteI received today September 30th and email from Dr Osmar.
ReplyDeleteI want to share with you. Please be aware
Dear Dr XXXXXXX,
Your pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "33rd World Congress on Pharmacology Award Content".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
Thanks you for this blog. Got asked by a colleague to pick up his talk - but got suspicious when asked to pay for as a speaker (and quite significant amounts)...
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well. I noticed that your conference registration is incomplete and unpaid. Please let me know if you need any assistance.
The registration fee may be paid online at https://esmed.org/registration-conference/
Best Regards,
Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly 2022
On Oct 08, 2021 09:00 AM, ESMED wrote:
Dear Dr. XXX,
Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately, we cannot waive the registration fee; however, we do have some travel funds and extra hotel nights available to speakers with a limit of $1,200 per person.
Additionally, I spoke with our committee and they have approved a 15% discount on the registration fee.
Please let me know if this could work for you.
Dear Dr. XXX,
Your Pharmacology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pharmacology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "XXXX".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
Thank you for your alerts.
ReplyDeleteI was contacted by Mr Osman about a paper published a decade ago. but still valid. He invited me to the ESMED conference in Madrid 2022. So I did say I would be interested if I was part of a panel, and not just one off speaker.
he e mail me a few times and said he noticed I had not yet registered and paid for the conference (in 2022). I responded as a Speaker I am not used to pay. And reiterated I expect the organisers to organise the session first. He offered some discount, which made me realise something was wrong. and found your comment! Thank you
Grateful for this blog but they keep trying. Luckily I did some research:
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well. I noticed that your conference registration is incomplete and unpaid. Please let me know if you need any assistance.
The registration fee may be paid online at https://esmed.org/registration-conference/
Best Regards,
Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly 2022
I am so glad to have found this blog because I just received an email from Dr Osman too on 17th October 2021. I will not be replying thanks to the thread here.
ReplyDeleteThis is what the email looks like:
Your Hepatology work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Hepatology is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Hepatitis C elimination by 2030 in zzzzz: an achievable goal?".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
I asked OSMAN for a linkedin, and also asked for the flyer or program.
ReplyDeleteThe reply from osman@eu.esmed.net
Dear Dr. Natalia Riva,
Thank you so much for your reply. More details about the conference are available here:
http://esmed.org/conferences/2022assembly/
We are in the process in updating the conference program & the lists of speakers, once settled, we will share them with you.
Unfortunately, I do not have a linked in account, & still no time to make one, since I'm travelling from one place to another.
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Could I ask for more details regarding the presentation you may have in mind?
Best Regards,
Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly 2022
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ReplyDeleteFrom: session chair
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 14:56
Subject: COVID-19 and "Graph modelling for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic spread"
To: Farhad Yusifov
Dear Dr. Farhad Yusifov,
Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Graph modelling for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic spread".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. .........
Thank you so much for your reply. You can access the detail of the conference here:https://esmed.org/conferences/2022assembly/
Keynote presentations are typically 30-40 minutes, session presentations for 25-30 minutes, and poster presentations for 5-15 minutes, with a Q&A portion after the presentation.
You can choose to participate virtually or in-person. Remote presentation is subject to a lesser registration fee of $349. With virtual attendance you will have access to all sessions of the conference.
You may record your presentation video using Zoom or PowerPoint. The presentation upload page has a link with instructions. https://esmed.org/presentation-files-upload/
The audience is mostly clinicians, but also includes researchers, professors, and med students, with the number range starts at 200 participants.
If you have any more questions in mind please feel free to ask me, i would be happy to answer them for you.
Could I ask for more details regarding the presentation you may have in mind?
Best Regards,
Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
European Society of Medicine's annual congress is all scam. I was repeatedly invited for various of 'his' meetings and while arguing about one meeting I got an invitation for another - so obviously there is no 'dr Osman' but a group of unscrupulous people just sending out endless numbers of invitations.
ReplyDeleteHe claimed to have an office and I told him I was in the area and would like to come for a visit - 'he' did not respond - because he office does not exist - but meanwhile other of folks was inviting me for other meetings - so obvious this is all scam - and we need telling people about his unscrupulous 'organisation'
One week ago I got this email:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. ...,
Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Health Sentinel: A mobile crowdsourcing platform for self-reported surveys provides early detection of COVID-19 clusters in San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
After looking for the conference and the sender, fortunately I found this blog showing the scam. Thank you.
There are 5 featured speakers at the alleged ESMED General Assembly 2022. I wonder if they know the conference is a scam, or if they even know their names are listed on the https://esmed.org/conferences/2022assembly/ website.
ReplyDeleteThe correspondence that I received from the ubiquitous M. Osman.
Fri, Oct 15 at 6:01 AM
I hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Pediatrics session?
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
From: office@eusocietyofmedicine.org
Sent: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Subject: Pediatrics
Dear
Your Pediatrics work [a paper I published in 2014 and have not done any follow up research on] recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Pediatrics is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article.
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
Please think of the environment before printing this message. This message may contain confidential or copyright content. This message is a B2B communication. If you have received this message by error or want to remove your data from the system please reply or write to Rue le Corbuisier#12, 1208 Geneva Switzerland. Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
Dear Dr. Roger A. Atinga,
ReplyDeleteYour COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Recovered but Constrained: Narratives of Ghanaian COVID-19 Survivors Experiences and Coping Pathways of Stigma, Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Their Sequels".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
I was also lured by the mail from Dr Osman, as he invited my contribution to a special section on colorectal cancer. I decided to participate only online and am watching on YouTube the meeting going on right now. So, it is not a fake meeting by far the worst meeting I have ever attended: From 5 parallel sessions only one is transmitted on YouTube; transmission is a simple camera located in the room and slides are not projected to the computer screen; the audio quality os terrible, I will leave the meeting site; the communication of program changes did not work and there is no updated program available online; the special session on colorectal cancer does not exist, after all.
ReplyDeleteESMED seems definitely an organization to make money in the science field without offering the respective quality.
Hi Peter,
DeleteI'm trying to stop this person.
Please email me on stoposman@protonmail.com
Fantastic blog! I'm a human geographer and I got contacted by this guy. I shall reply rudely and block him:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Cloke,
Thank you for your email. Yes, it is ESMED who sent the email. We would like to invite you as one of the speakers at our conference. The ESMED Assembly is going to be held on the 4th-6th of August 2022 in Madrid. Your work would certainly be a valuable addition to the session. More details about the conference are available here: http://esmed.org/conferences/2022assembly/
Unfortunately, following the sudden requirement by foreign governments to take extreme precaution for speakers, we are putting a on-hold all in-person registrations. You may register virtually to save a spot and hopefully upgrade in the near future. With virtual attendance you will have access to all sessions of the conference.
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Could I ask for more details regarding the presentation you may have in mind?
Best Regards,
Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
ESMED General Assembly 2022
On Dec 04, 2021 16:19 PM, Copito61 wrote:
I wonder if you can help me - I received this email which seems to be from ESMED but the email address is wrong and it looks a bit suspicious.
Can you confirm if your organization might have sent this?
Thanks,
Jon
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: session chair
Date: Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Subject: COVID-19 and "Writing anthropandemics - the strangely connected social geographies of COVID-19, plastic waste, and obesity"
To: Jon Cloke
Dear Dr. Jon Cloke,
Your COVID-19 work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. COVID-19 is one of the core sessions I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Writing anthropandemics - the strangely connected social geographies of COVID-19, plastic waste, and obesity".
The assembly is August 4-6.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
Please think of the environment before printing this message. This message may contain confidential or copyright content. This message is a B2B communication. If you have received this message by error or want to remove your data from the system please reply or write to Rue le Corbuisier#12, 1208 Geneva Switzerland. Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
Thank you for this blog. I was nearly accepted Dr Osman's invitation just thinking to share my research. He sent a link on ESMED and it was ok. But I need more information about the conference and to know more about him. So I googled. Suddenly it took me here. Thank you so much for saving lots of researcher in this world and from letting him become richer and richer through this illegal way.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the information. I also receive the same e-mail:
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. xxxxxx,
If you have a few minutes I wanted to discuss your COVID-19 research. I am serving as the editor of a special theme issue on Advancements in COVID-19 which will be released by the European Society of Medicine next year and I was thinking that something related to your work on "xxx" would be interesting to include in the issue. Perhaps you could tell me more about your research in this area.
This could be in the form of a research article or even a review article.
Might this be a possibility?
Sincerely,
L. Smith, M.D.
Medical Research Archives
European Society of Medicine
Online ISSN: 2375-1924
Print ISSN: 2375-1916
PubMed ID: 10166851
I received the same email as those above, it appears that the fields of "Name" and "area of research" are taken from somewhere and filled in (with rough approximation). I did not respond but have had repeated emails, I'll paste one example below.
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well. Did you get a chance to think about participating in the Sleep Disorders session?
Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
is it a predatory organization or not?
ReplyDeletePLEASE BE AWARE THAT IT IS A PREDATORY AND FRAUDOLENT ORGANZIATION! I HAVE BEEN AT THE POLICE STATION TO REPORT THIS PREDATORY AND FRAUDOLENT BEHAVIOR. HOWEVER, THE LAW IS RELATED TO EACH STATE AND THEREFORE I HOPE THAT THIS MESSAGE AWARES AND WARRANTS OTHERS TO NOT BE FISHED! Rosalinda Sorrentino
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. XXXX,
ReplyDeleteYour drug delivery work recently caught my attention and I wanted to get in contact with you. Drug Delivery is one of the core topics of the Pharmacology session I am planning for European Society of Medicine's General Assembly next year. I think your work could fit well within the session, maybe as a presentation related to your article "Kinetics of HTT lowering in brain of YAC 128 mice following single and repetitive intranasal dosing of siRNA packaged in chitosan-based nanoparticles".
The assembly is August 4-6 in Madrid. There is also the option to participate online.
May we discuss this idea?
Sincerely,
M. Osman, M.D.
European Society of Medicine
2022 ESMED General Assembly
Our mission: To advance medicine, through knowledge and innovation.
Their US address (why the European Society of Medicine has a US address is not explained) appears to be a barbershop in Covina, CA. Additionally, they list their APC as 1650 EUR/USD, which is weird because those currencies do not have the exact same value.
ReplyDeleteHello - I thought it was odd that they have no name on the letter and the addresses at Mailing Addresses:
ReplyDeleteRue le Corbusier 12 Geneva, 1208, Switzerland-is Swiss Mailbox
and
440 N Barranca Ave, Covina CA, 91789 USA-Virtual postoffice mail or barber shop.
do not appear to show any legitimate business.