I receive several of these per month.  They range variously from bogus conference CFPs (in locations like Hawaii and Rio) to bogus journals to invitations to serve as the editor for a bogus journal.  Most of them seem completely automated, scraping authors and emails out of databases of papers.<p>Most of them stand out as obvious (especially when they spam me based on a journal article that wanted names formatted like &quot;J. Triplett&quot;).  But sometimes they have <i>almost</i> enough believability that I could imagine someone not familiar with this type of scam falling for it.  Some of them stand up to a quick search, and someone seeing the journal title and CFP, not doing the research on it, sending a draft (&quot;spray and pray&quot;), and following along with the process and any fees.  (Some journals charge substantial fees as well, sometimes by the page, with extra for diagrams.)<p>The mails often follow the usual tactics of playing up the recipient&#x27;s status.  And any university IT department would tell you that students and professors are not by any means immune to scams.  When one &quot;success&quot; earns hundreds in fees, it wouldn&#x27;t take a significant success rate to make this scam profitable.