Sham journals scam authors

@article{Butler2013ShamJS,  title={Sham journals scam authors},  author={Declan Butler},  journal={Nature},  year={2013},  volume={495},  pages={421-422},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:242583}}
Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees. 

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