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OMICS is a publisher of "open-access" journals (aka a "predatory publisher") that spams scraped, purchased or appended lists. It does this to solicit contributions to its journals and (by implication) fees and/subscriptions.

OMICS operates under a number of business names. It also uses a very large number of names for its journals. Most of these journal names closely resemble the name of a journal that is widely respected in the academic community.

These similarly-named journals have deceived a number of spam recipients into submitting work to what they believe is a respected academic journal.

OMICS SBL Listings History

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Archived SBL Listings

7/30/2022: OMICS spamming from Microsoft *.protection.outlook.com network!

The following SBL listing is of OMICS spam sent through Microsoft's customer outbounds *.protection.outlook.com.

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SBL #: SBL580574
Subject: Spam Emitter! (medclinres.com) (OMICS)

Microsoft's *.protection.outlook.com SMTP servers are being used to send spam for OMICS, a publisher of "open access" journals that solicits contributions, and (by implication) fees and/or subscriptions, through spam sent to scraped, purchased or appended email addresses.

The Authentication-Results header appears to indicate that this was an unsigned test message. The domain
medclinres.com has an MX record pointing to *.protection.outlook.com. It has no A record and no website, so it can be used only to send and receive email through Microsoft.

Microsoft: please remove your spamming customer's domain and account(s).

SPAM SAMPLE:

Received: from IND01-MAX-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-maxind01on2095.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.222.95])
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:##:## +0000
From: Medical and Clinical Research <submissions@medclinres.com>
Subject: Article Submissions for Archives of Medical and Clinical Research
authentication-results: dkim=none (message not signed)
header.d=none;dmarc=none action=none header.from=medclinres.com;

<snip>

Dear Doctor,

Archives of Medical and Clinical Research accepting articles for the upcoming issue.

Archives of Medical and Clinical Research publishes peer reviewed articles in a very short period of time.

<snip>

For Online Submissions: [ Submit Manuscript ]
[[ https://www.amcrjournal.com/registration.php ]]

Submit your article by mail to editor@amcrjournal.com

Invitation to Join in Reviewer Team

<snip>

HOST LOOKUP:

$ host medclinres.com
medclinres.com mail is handled by 0 medclinres-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.

WHOIS:

[whois.verisign-grs.com]
Domain Name: MEDCLINRES.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2643848384_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com
Registrar URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com
Updated Date: 2021-09-27T06:06:23Z
Creation Date: 2021-09-27T06:06:22Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-09-27T06:06:22Z
Registrar: Wild West Domains, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 440
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@wildwestdomains.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 480-624-2505
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Name Server: NS1.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM
Name Server: NS2.BDM.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned

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