Spam-like activity to keep an eye on

[jvwong]

Some examples of 'initiated' documents I've observed that look spammy:

• 1 Document link
  • Description: Client hits the /document/new endpoint repeatedly (freq?) and article search provider (e.g. PubMed) returns HTTPStatusError: Too Many Requests (429).
    • Could get us banned. Happens periodically.
  • Provided
    • email: [email protected]
    • name: This varies, Qing Jiang, Tomoya S Kitajima etc...
• 2 Document link
  • Description: Same title entered but the casing looks suspicious and the email addy varies
  • Provided
    • title: Structure and evolution of Aalanine/Sserine Ddecarboxylases and the engineering of theanine production
    • email: [email protected], [email protected]
    • name: Hao Wang

[jvwong]

• Thursday Sep 25, 2024
  • 14 instances in a row of a new document creation as in 1 above

[jvwong]

This is probably spam Cyclic carbamates based on R-+-limonene oxide for ring-opening polymerization. Lucia Rubino, Vincenzo Patamia, Antonio Rescifina, Maurizio Galimberti, Vincenzina Barbera. Article summary created by AT. Sci Rep 14 2024

• Clues:
  • Article input was single word LIMONENE (why did this even match? - see Consider flexibility in rules for matching an article by title  #1297 )
  • Email was suspect
    • local: bunch of numbers; domain directed to biotech.kiit.ac.in but not Politecnico di Milano where authors are from)
  • Name
    • Initials didn't match any authors
  • Paper was synthetic chem