My identity was stolen by a predatory conference
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Tin Wui Wong
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Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam, Malaysia.
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Your Career Feature describes attending a ‘predatory’ conference designed to extract money from participants for little or no academic return (see Nature 631 , 921–923; 2024 ). I have a different experience: finding myself on a conference-organizing committee entirely without my knowledge.
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Nature 633 , 525 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03024-x
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