This IP address is sending spam for OMICS (aka Remedy Publishing, aka Austin Publishing, and others) advertising its «open-access» journals. The spam is sent to scraped, purchased, or appended lists.
OMICS claims that these journals are peer-reviewed, but they have a dubious reputation among the academics we have asked.
DigitalOcean: OMICS appears to be running riot in your VPS ranges. Please find out the account name(s), connecting IPs, and other identifying information used by this spam operation and block it all.
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:##:## +0000
From: Cardiovascular Surgery International (ISSN <x>) <editor@oamedtextmailj.com>
Reply-To: Cardiovascular Surgery International (ISSN <x>) <quinnelisaa@medtextopenj.info>
Subject: Dear <x>, High Priority Invitation for CFP <x>
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I would like to inform you that our Journal “Cardiovascular Surgery International (ISSN 2692-7969)” is going to release a new volume (Volume 03 & Issue 01) in the year 2022.
We kindly request you to share your manuscript <x>
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Cardiovascular Surgery International (ISSN <x>)
Medtext Publications LLC
6355 N Clairmont Avenue
Chicago, IL 60659
USA
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