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Dear Mr. Nick Ruest,
I am Barbara Taylor from the editorial team of Lambert Academic Publishing.
I’m getting in touch with you today concerning an interesting work from 2013 which I found at the York University Canada.
Is it correct that you authored the work entitled “Warc? Warkwark wark? Wark Warrrk”?
A short confirmation would be greatly appreciated. I believe this particular topic could be of interest to a wider audience and we would be glad to consider publishing it.
Should the commercialisation of your work as printed book meet your interest, kindly let me know. I will be glad to provide you with further details in an electronic brochure.
I am looking forward to hearing from you, Mr. Nick Ruest.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Barbara Taylor
Acquisition Editor
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Heinrich-Böcking-Str. 6-8,
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Dear Mr. Nick Ruest,
Some time ago I offered you the possibility of making your academic paper available as printed book. Since I did not hear back from you, I am now wondering if you received my first email.
I would appreciate if you could confirm your interest in our publishing house and I will be glad to provide you with detailed information about our services.
I am looking forward to receiving a positive response from you.
Best Regards,
Barbara Taylor
Acquisition Editor
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing is a trademark of:
OmniScriptum GmbH & Co.KG
Heinrich-Böcking-Str. 6-8,
66121, Saarbrücken, Germany
b.taylor (at) lap-publishing-house.com / www.lap-publishing-house.com
Handelsregister Amtsgericht Saarbrücken HRA 10356
Identification Number (Verkehrsnummer): 13955
Partner with unlimited liability: OMS Management GmbH
Handelsregister Amtsgericht Saarbrücken HRB 18918
Managing director: Dr. Wolfgang Philipp Mueller
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xtaran commented Jan 15, 2015

Found this gist via DuckDuckGo. Got a simlar mail from another publisher of the same group. It contained the wrong academic title in the salutation, the wrong institution and citing an article I didn't write. Since they claim to have their headquaters in the city I studied, I digged a little bit deeper.

It seems that on all web pages of that group share the same address and fax number and no phone number. I've checked the whois for two of their domains and they're hosted at some mass hoster (Schlund) and the given phone number there is only a mobile phone number.

To me this looks like a well-done spam wave of a network of very small companies which try to look big.

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