{"id":821,"date":"2009-08-20T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T13:22:34","slug":"social-engineering-for-the-overeducated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/20\/social-engineering-for-the-overeducated\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering for the Overeducated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an interesting email today.\u00a0 Ostensibly from Prof. Jochem Koos (a good Dutch name) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\">Elsevier<\/a>, the email gives editorial and review policies for its journals.\u00a0 After stating that referees must be of the highest quality, the letter then asks potential editors and reviewers to fill out a form to certify their credentials and be added to their list. \u00a0 The bad part is that it costs $100 to be added to the list.\u00a0 The good part is that referees are to be paid $30 per page reviewed.\u00a0 $30!\u00a0 I just finished a 50 page monster for an Elsevier journal.\u00a0 I could get $1500?!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Does that go for revisions too?\u00a0 I could get that paper in an endless series of revisions at $1500 per round.\u00a0 &#8220;There is a comma misplaced on page 26.\u00a0 I will need to see a revision before I recommend publication.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ka-ching!\u00a0 And if I am running a bit short on cash a few reviews of the form &#8220;Interesting paper but I would like to see it &#8230; 13 pages longer&#8221; should be just the thing for making the mortgage payment.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is all a ruse.\u00a0 Elsevier does not pay $30\/page for refereeing (at least, not in operations research) and you don&#8217;t have to pay $100 to get on an approved list to referee.<\/p>\n<p>It is surprising that a group that overwhelmingly has PhDs can be a target for such a scam.\u00a0 On the other hand, considering some of the people I have met in my professional life, perhaps it is not that surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:\u00a0 don&#8217;t send off $100 to just anyone with a gmail address.\u00a0 Elsevier has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/authorsview.authors\/spam\">some more information<\/a> on these sorts of emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an interesting email today.\u00a0 Ostensibly from Prof. Jochem Koos (a good Dutch name) from Elsevier, the email gives editorial and review policies for its journals.\u00a0 After stating that referees must be of the highest quality, the letter then asks potential editors and reviewers to fill out a form to certify their credentials and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/20\/social-engineering-for-the-overeducated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Engineering for the Overeducated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}