CS Professor Calls Out Spam Emails Falsely Listing Him as a Paper Author
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-22
A computer science professor complains about the seasonal wave of unsolicited emails promoting papers that falsely list him as an author. He publicly clarifies he's not on these papers and tells cold-emailers to do due diligence: "This is your one chance to entice your reader. Make it count or don't bother."
The post quotes samples from his inbox, shedding light on the rampant authorship-spoofing spam in academia.
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