Saturday, March 2, 2019

Phronesis is for "highly affiliated people"

Phronesis LLC "organize[s] international conferences across the different places in the world, with an aim to provide an excellent forum for upcoming young researchers, scientists, professors and other highly affiliated people to share their research in that particular field." Enough said, but some information on the company and its nascent journals is posted on the Flaky Academic Journals blog. According to its emails to me, I am an expert in immunology, microbiology, and polymer chemistry. Not bad for someone who has never researched or published on these subjects.
Email
  • From: Immunology and Microbiology [AngieMarshall.1991@yahoo.com]
    Date: Mar 2, 2019, 11:26 PM
    Subject: Immunology and Microbiology session: Toxicology 2019
    Dear Dr. David H Kaye
    Greetings from Toxicology-2019!!
    You have been recommended by our Organizing Committee Member, for inviting you as a Speaker for our upcoming conference toxicology-2019 (International Conference on Applied Pharmacology and Toxicology) during September 23-24, 2019 at Barcelona, Spain. Since you have research related to our conference, we are honor have your presence and valuable speech at our conference under Immunology and Microbiology session. Kindly have a glance at our conference website: https://bit.ly/2NAcWev [← McAfee warned that the website is malicious.]
    Please let me know your opinion regarding the same so that we can include your talk in the tentative program.
    For any further assistance, feel free to revert back us. Looking forward to hear from you soon
    Best regards,
    Nithya
    Toxicology-2019 Conference.
    Email: toxicology@phronesisonline.net
    Please reach me at direct 1-302-469-7080 | WhatsApp: 1-302-257-6292
  • From: Biopolymers [biopolymers@phronesisonline.info]
    Date: Fri 4/26/19
    Subject: Recommended by Organizing committee members: BPC-2019,USA
    Dear Dr.
    You have been recommended by our Organizing Committee Members, for inviting you as a Speaker for our Global Biopolymers & Polymer Chemistry Congress during November12-13, 2019 in Las Vegas, USA; with the theme “Present Perspective and Future Prospects of Polymer Science”.
    In this overwhelming joy, on behalf of Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to take part in our BPC-2019 Conference as a Speaker.
    We feel your participation will help us to take this conference to next level. [← not an allusion to Dante's Inferno, I hope]
    For more info, please visit http://phronesisonline.com/polymer-chemistry-congress/
    Awaiting your reply at the earliest We look forward to hear from you soon.
    Thank you,
    With Regards,
    Akira Jones
    BPC-2019
    Email:biopolymers@phronesisonline.net
    Please reach me at direct : 1-302-469-7080 | Whatsapp: +1 -302-308-5943
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Friday, March 1, 2019

Lexis wants "a worldwide and everlasting bond"

The About Us page of the conference division of Lexis (not to be confused with the prominent information provider LexisNexis) is as flowery as it is vacuous:
With the indomitable aim of transforming the fields of Science, Technology and Healthcare, Lexis matches our unshakeable service ethos to the most skilled and enthusiastic professionals. [O]ur goal is to support the scientific communities and networks, as we combine to propel science and health into the future.
Lexis believe in integrating innovation with the latest research ....
MISSION: To seek out the most Dynamic, Enlightening and Modernised research, far and wide. To Educate, Innovate, Motivate. To establish a worldwide and everlasting bond between academicians, activists, experts and organisations.
The domains lexisconferences.com and lexispublisher.com are registered to Domains By Proxy rather than to the person or people who paid for them. The websites offer the primary address of Avenue Roger Vandendriessche 18, 1150 Brussels, Belgium. This address also is used by "Longdom conferences coined as ‘father of all conferences’" (https://www.longdom.com/about, 3/1/19).

A secondary address on the conference website (and in the email of 3/1/19) is Sakinah Kareem, 4211 Rainier St, Irving, TX 75062. A modest single family home is located there. Court and arrest records are reported for one Sakinah Kareem, aged 62, in Irving, Texas. The website for the conferences solicits donations for awards to students and young scientists. According to Buzzfile, the telephone number 631-433-5012 in the email is that of the Nur Jabalu Foundation, located nearby, at 4403 Rainier St, Irving, TX 75062. The foundation's CEO is Malik Kareem. Mylife.com reports that Malik is one of Sakinah's nicknames.

The publishing division is discussed on the Flaky Academic Journals blog.
Email
  • From: Lexis [meetings@lexisconferences.com]
    Date: Mar 1, 2019 12:58 AM, 1:05 AM
    Subject: Anticipating your Review
    Greetings from LEXIS!
    Lexis is a brand that specializes in organizing International conferences and establishes outstanding, direct communication between the researchers whether they are working in the same field or in interdisciplinary research activities. We identify and build bridge to reduce the gap in knowledge sharing and to pursue collective goals of the scientific community specifically focusing in the field of Sciences, Engineering, and technology. We provide motivating sessions and networking session through which you can figure out how to be considerably be more audacious and strike your goal.
    Looking forward to book your calendar for our upcoming events.
    Best Regards
    Sakinah Kareem,
    Communication Assistance,
    Lexis 4211 Rainier Street, Irving, Texas 75062, USA Tel: +1-631-433-5012