Just say no to spam...

As working research scientists, we author papers that are published online. As part of this process, our email address is listed so other scientists can ask questions, ask for reprints, or request reagents. Unfortunately, companies are now plucking email addresses from these papers and using them to send unsolicited marketing materials, i.e. SPAM. In an attempt to slow or stop this practice, we've established this site to publicize those companies that choose this marketing tactic. Hopefully a public flogging and lost sales will do what the UNSUBSCRIBE button can not…

Latest Spammers [e-mail] likes to sell your email address by KSB 27 Sep 2010 22:38 More SPAM incoming from our friends at SciData, who appear to be the ones harvesting and reselling our email addresses. A quick WHOIS search turns up Rajan AN at InBiogen Technologies as the holder of the SciData website. They were even nice enough to give their email address. [e-mail] Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM SciData - A global biotech SPAM provider by KSB 23 Sep 2010 18:54 WOW, did I get a great SPAM today - SPAM from a company called SciData offering to sell me a list of names and email addresses harvested from online papers, abstracts and posters. They even provide a list of their own customers - it makes it easier for us to blackball them, but in the end probably doesn't do much to stop SciData's web crawlers from gathering email addresses. More details inside... Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM ImmunoCellin Delivers Spam to your Inbox by KSB 30 Jun 2010 22:32 Their tagline is ImmunoCellin Delivers Antibodies in Live Cells. Not sure if that's true, and I won't find out since I don't buy from spammers... sent to an article-specific email account. Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM Select Biosciences by KSB 29 Jun 2010 18:38 Delivering the SPAM - be sure to add [e-mail] to any mailing lists you might have... Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM Biorbyt - Spam for science by KSB 24 Jun 2010 16:24 Buy or bite? Bio ribbit? Bi orbit? However you pronounce the name, they'll pull your email address from a paper and spam you. Find your antibodies and peptides elsewhere... Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM Epitomics by KSB 22 Jun 2010 19:23 Better antibodies, better science, better spam? CEO Guo-Liang Yu and his crew like to find new customers using web crawlers - a search of their website for an anti-SPAM antibody turned up nothing... Comments: 1 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM Kent Scientific spam by KSB 22 Jun 2010 17:22 Marketing message sent to a unique email address I created for a paper published in 2006. Too bad because these guys make some decent stuff. Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM EuroAsia by KSB 22 Jun 2010 00:17 Not only do these guys spam you, they also violate your patents. Lifted my email address from a J. Immunology article from a few years back. Thanks CEO K.R. Chokhani. Comments: 0 | category: General Reporting / You've got SPAM RSS feed

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